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Be the Change Workshop is a day-long multi media experience that explores the link between humanity’s three most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Using video clips from some of the world’s most respected thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information and group interactions, the workshop allows participants to gain a new insight into the very nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world.
Some incredible people have contributed their wisdom to the event – including Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Julia Butterfly Hill and Paul Hawken, all of whom appear on video
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The idea for this event came from the Achuar, an indigenous people who live deep in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Their urgent message to our modern industrial culture is that we are living in a dream – a dream which threatens their, and our, future.
The most critical issue, and greatest opportunity, of our time - and what you can do about it.
According to a majority of the world’s experts, there is now overwhelming evidence that our modern society is headed for a catastrophe unless we change our course. The consensus of leading scientists is telling us that the impact of our industrial system, and the sudden expansion of humanity’s ability to harvest the common bounty of our planet for short-term gain, is upsetting the balance of our highly complex and fragile web of life. It is as if we are living in a dream, sleepwalking toward oblivion, while self-serving, short-sighted interests encourage our slumber with managed news, celebrity culture and other weapons of mass distraction.
The workshop is facilitated by Nanke Lavrijsen and Leo Sonneveld, with support from:
 
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Business version
Since 30-6-2007 'BeTheChange Community Nederland' offers these workshops in Dutch. When you would like to organise a workshop / symposium in your organisation, possibly as part of your sustainability agenda or alternative social activity, please contact Leo Sonneveld.
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| Time |
10.00 to 17.00 |
| Target audience |
everyone who wants to stay awake |
| Where |
to be announced soon |
| Price |
€75 including lunch |
| When |
to be announced soon |
| Registration |
By mail |
| Language |
Dutch or English |
It has become clear that our political and commercial institutions are unable to address this crisis effectively, primarily because they don’t realize that they are looking at an interconnected world through a fragmented lens. So the villain here is not Big Business, the corporate media, the military-industrial complex, or even those who for personal profit seek to clearcut our forests, overfish our oceans, pollute our atmosphere or drain our aquifers. The villain is an outmoded worldview — a way of seeing the world in which such unthinkable acts can appear as reasonable, sensible, and even intelligent.
Indigenous people of South America, who still live in their traditional Earth-honouring ways, refer to our modern worldview as our “dream”, and have urged us, for the sake of all life, to “change the dream of the North.” Well, it appears that changing this collective dream of ours will be a do-it-yourself-together project. It will be accomplished by committed individuals working in concert with one another, tens of millions of us, each willing to think and act in a whole new way. This is one of the generating principles behind the Change the Dream Symposium.
The aim of the Symposium is not to learn more about the world, but to grapple and come to grips with the very assumptions that underlie the way we ourselves see the world and our place in it. If you are ready to be disturbed, inspired and moved to action. If you are ready to be introduced to a thriving community of like-hearted, deeply committed cohorts who are actively engaged in awakening from and changing the dream of our modern industrial culture, we invite you to come to the workshop.
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