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NOTEBOOK
FORPARTICIPANTSFACILITATOR TRAININGS
July 26, 2012
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Facilitator Training Notebook
Index
Facilitator Training Agenda 3
Purpose & Intended Results of the Facilitator Training 5
Purpose & Intended Results of the Symposium 8
Intentions of the Sections of the Symposium 9
Notes to Ourselves in Designing the Symposium 11
Your Next Steps & Resources to Support You 18
Accessing the Facilitators Hub 22
Poems and Quotations 23
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Facilitator Training Program Agenda:
Day 1
I. Welcome and Coming Present
Welcome, Overview
Open Sacred Space
Introductions
Getting Ready
BREAK
II. The Context and Being of our Work As Facilitators
Background of The Pachamama Alliance and the Symposium
The Context for Our Work
P & IR for This Training
Discussion: What Moved You From Your Symposium?
P & IR for Symposium
LUNCH
Discussion: Notes To Ourselves In Designing the Symposium
III. The Symposium and Presenters Manual
Exercise: Intentions of the Sections in Your Own Words
Orientation to the Presenters Manual
Walk-through of the Manual (BREAK in middle of Walk-through)
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DINNER
EVENING SESSION:
Going Deeper with Social Justice
Relational Presence
Day 2
IV. Making it Happen!
Opening
Creating & Holding the Space
Presentations of Sections of the Symposium
BREAK
Next Steps & Resources to Support You
Completing Your Training
Finding Your Group Name
LUNCH
Meeting in Regional/Community Groups to Plan Next Steps
Conversations about the Symposium
V. Completion Ceremony
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Purpose and Intended Results of the
Facilitator Training
Purpose
To support participants in expressing their commitment to bringing forth an
environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence
on the planet by enabling them to become committed, effective agents of change in
the world, generating and presenting the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the
Dream Symposium.
Intended ResultsIn the area of our spirit and grounding, we:
Are immersed in the spirit, ground of being, content, and flow of the
Symposium, so that our communicating about it and delivering it is a
powerful expression of that which inspired and inspires it.
Are committed to living lives consistent with the spirit of the Symposium,
engaged at a constantly deepening level with what it means to live a life
of blessed unrest.
Recognize ourselves as leaders, agents of change who are making the
purpose of the Symposium the guiding principle in our communities.
Experience that who we are, and the depth of our commitment, is
deeply seen and recognized.
Are familiar with, and aligned with, the work and mission of The
Pachamama Alliance.
Are open to information and guidance from the natural world and have
an appreciation of indigenous spirit practices and wisdom.
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In the area of our understanding, we:
Are familiar with the purpose and intended results of the Symposium,
and can recreate for ourselves the flow of the Symposium, including
each section and the transitions between sections.
Have immersed ourselves in, and deepened our understanding of, the
material and flow of the Symposium and its principle distinctions, with
particular emphasis on social justice, so that we are able to author and
embody it for ourselves.
Are familiar with the intentions and material content of each section of
the Symposium and can see how each element in that section
contributes to the intentions.
Have a sense of what it takes to make successful and impactful
Symposiums happen, and the key roles involved: host, producer, and
presenter.
Understand the distinction that the Symposium and the Awakening the
Dreamer initiative have to play in the larger, emergent movement.
Are clear that effective, elegant production of the Symposium provides
the foundation for the participants to experience a profound shift in their
relationship to their world and are empowered to facilitate the
Symposium in a way that supports this shift to happen.
Are knowledgeable about and are committed to accurate informationand record keeping.
In the area of our actions, we:
Have actively participated in, and contributed to, the Facilitator Training,
being responsible for our own training and supporting the training of
others.
Have become a vibrant and potent team of Awakening the Dreamer,
Changing the Dream Symposium Facilitators, part of the larger
Facilitator Body, responsible for our own ongoing training and
development.
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Recognize a clear role for ourselves in making Symposiums happen,
and are sufficiently informed, enabled and empowered so that we can
actively fulfill our chosen role(s).
Have identified a team or have a clear plan for bringing together a team
for making Symposiums happen in our communities, as an expression
of our commitment to expand the reach and impact of the Symposium in
our communities and beyond.
Have formulated plans for generating, producing and presenting our first
Symposiums.
Ground of Being for the Training:
We are honored and humbled to be called to do this work at this pivotal time in
history.
The training itself is held in a space of blessed unrest.
The training is also held in a context of joy, acknowledgement, discovery,
commitment, possibilityand an invigorating call to action.
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Purpose and Intended Results of the
Symposium
Purpose
To provide an experience that inspires participants to stand for a new possibility for
the future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just
human presence on this planet, as the guiding principle of our time.
Intended Results Participants are profoundly aware of the scope, complexity and urgency of
the issues facing our planet today.
Participants are aware of the worldview that people in the modern world
have inherited and its role in bringing us to where we are today, and begin
to free themselves from the constraints of the unconscious, unexamined
assumptions that they have internalized.
Participants experience the future not as predictable or inevitable, but as
creatable; and experience that they make a difference in how the future of
the planet unfolds.
Participants experience themselves as integral members of an already
emerging and expanding community that is committed to bringing forth a
sustainable, fulfilling, and just human presence on the planet.
Participants see a vital role for themselves that inspires them and calls them
into action, and experience being empowered in expressing and fulfilling
that role.
Participants commit to staying awake in a state of blessed unrest and to
including communicating about the issues raised in the Symposium as part
of their lifes work.
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Note:
The Awakening the Dreamer Symposium has been inspired by indigenous people
of the Amazon rainforest whose profound connection with the natural world may
account for the dignity of being with which they walk upon the Earth. Thus shaped,
the Symposium calls into question long held assumptions about the purpose and
possibility of the human species and offers a vision of human beings true
relationship to, and responsibility for, one another and the quality of the future of life
on planet Earth.
Intentions of the Sections of the
Symposium
Overall Purpose
To provide an experience that inspires participants to stand for an entirely new
possibility for the futurean environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and
socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our time.
Introduction/Welcome
To have participants feel they are in a safe and welcoming placeone that has
been generated by a call from indigenous peopleand for them to anticipate with
excitement the journey ahead.
I. Where Are We?
To have participants face as a group and let in the urgency and scope of the
current global environmental, social, and spiritual crises; to understand them as
totally interconnected facets of one crisis, not as three separate issues; and to have
a beginning understanding of the systems and structures that keep the current
dream of the modern world in place.
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II. How Did We Get Here?
To have participants distinguish and awaken from the trance that we have
inherited and are caught in as individuals and as a society; for them to see the
causal relationship between the trance and the dream of the modern world; and to
empower them to continue to identify for themselves the unconscious, unexaminedassumptions that perpetuate the trance. For participants to recognize that a new
way of seeing the worldas profoundly interconnectedis emerging in our culture,
one that is consistent both with modern science and with the understanding of the
world that indigenous people have always had.
III. Whats Possible Now?
For participants to experience the future not as predictable or inevitable, but as
creatable and that they make a difference in how the future of the planet unfolds;
and for participants to be uplifted, energized and inspired into action by seeing that
a huge, un-named, unstoppable groundswell of committed energy and activity is
emerging around the world as a new expression of civil society.
IV Where Do We Go From Here?
Recognizing the critical role of community in creating a new future, for participants
to have an opportunity to express both their longing and their stand for creating an
environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence
on the planet; for them to identify for themselves, and commit to, sustainable
actions, practices, and ways of being which are consistent with their vision and
stand; for them to be inspired to actively communicate about the urgency and
opportunity of our time with the people, organizations and institutions in their lives;
and for them to have a commitment to stay engaged with the issues raised in the
Symposium as part of their lifes work.
Close
For participants to be in an abiding state of blessed unrest, standing powerfully as
change agents in a place of possibility, creativity, communityand action.
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Notes to Ourselves in Designing the
Symposium
1. Rememberthe Symposium is an offer, not a request. Offer every bit as:
Consider this. Leave it in the room when you leave if you wish. We just ask
that you consider it for the day.
2. Wisdom, expertise and experience exist in the participants. We need to be
respectful and honor that.
3. People cannot be with the challenging information if they dont think there is
something they can do about the situation. There has to be a possibility
where people can stand responsibly before they are able to let in and
confront the facts.
4. Our work is to address the unexamined assumptions, not come up with
solutions that are merely more, different or better.
5. We dont live in the world, we live in the storywe tell ourselves about the
world.
6. In the Symposium we emphasize questions and inquiries rather than
answers and solutions. (An answer seeks to dissolve the question, a
response recognizes the ongoing validity of the question and seeks to
remain in connection with it.)
7. There are many different points (not just one or two) in the Symposium that
people identify as the absolute key. We cant know which places are the
ones that are going to do it for anybody.
8. We must not glorify the indigenous and vilify the modern: what is unique
about the Pachamama Alliance is the reunion, the integration of the best of
both that we are standing for.
9. Invite people to join a dialogue and make their own choices rather than
expect to be given a package that is all neatly wrapped up. This is a
process, not a product.
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10. E We cannot merely talk at people during the hours of the Symposium;
there are many creative modalities we will want and need to employ such
as: video, music, guided meditation, journaling, activities and exercises,
eyes-closed processes, paired sharing, group sharing, small group
discussion groups, poetry, and so forth. Be aware of when the energy inthe room is getting heavy or locked and shift it by switching to another
modality.
11. We need to be careful to not try to wait for the perfect Symposium, but to
settle for a good version, with a mechanism built in for always gathering
input and refining it.
12. Playing it safe and not stepping on peoples toes is not our primary concern:
we mean to sound the alarm because the situation is dire.
13. When people see real possibility, that leads to responsibility and the ability
to act. We do not need to convincepeople of anything.
14. Have people see the world and themselves differently so that we dont need
to prop them up or keep them motivatedhave them become self-
generating.
15. Other organizations are doing a terrific job in many areas. We acknowledge
and dont want or need to duplicate their excellent work. We aim to provide
people a place to stand that encompasses it all, from which participants can
experience the power of being part of an aligned community.
16. This Symposium is not meant to be a discourse or debate on the
technological, economic, political and social problems facing the planet, and
their potential solutions (or lack thereof); its about creating an
environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human
presence on this planet.
17. The Symposium is not the words on the page of the manual. Its a place to
come fromand, there is content to deliver. Present as much as possible in
your own words, allowing the words you speak to emerge from your own
heart and inner spirit.
18. People are passionate, frightened, strident about what they believe is the
problem/solution. Have space and compassion for all points of view. Have
people feel deeply seen and heardand do not go down the route of
debate or trying to defend. Allow people to be exactly where they are.
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19. Be on the lookout for articles, statistics and new examples of the Emerging
Dream, and have them at the ready to insert into the Symposium to keep it
fresh and current.
20. Do not be heavy or significant or righteous in presenting the material; come
from a sort of grounded lightness.
21. Whatever you do, dont shortchange the Where Do We Go From Here? and
Getting into Action sections.
22. Do not be apologetic about time; dont share your problem about fitting
everything in. Do not rush. Come from, and communicate, that we will have
just the right amount of time. Demonstrate spaciousness tempered with
committed efficiency.
23. Allow indigenous wisdom/shamanic insights into your own understanding,
more and more. People may have resistance to the ideaof it; however wedont have to name it in order to be able to use it in the Symposium.
24. Keep in mind the piety of poetry: poetry allows for an experience of the
transcendental in a way that straight prose does not. Feel free to introduce
poems that seem appropriate.
25. Whenever possible, work with a co-presenter and team. It works better that
way, and it demonstrates the whole message of interdependence that the
Symposium is about.
26. Dont have your attention so on the manual and screen that you lose trackof where the participants are. Keep looking out into the audience to gauge
where they are so that you can make comments and adjustments as
appropriate. (26)
27. Never use bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling,
socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our
time as a glib phrase that rolls off the tongue: create the possibility each
and every time it is uttered.
28. Reading the manual is almost never preferable to generating it. The
Presenters job is to illuminatethe messages of the Symposium; to bring lifeand light to the words on the page. We need to be familiar with the manual,
but facile enough to have the messages come authentically from our own
hearts.
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29. How do we Change a Dream?
Have it become an idea whose time has come?
How do we make something an idea whose time has come?
Have a vision; try everything; never give up. Let others and yourself know you are
not going away. Where to begin?
Engage. Have Conversations. Work in, and build, community. Develop personal
practices. Live in a state of blessed unrest. Recognize yourself as a force of
nature.
30. Our goal is for people to leave the Symposium seeing themselves as
change agents in enduring state of Blessed Unrest. The Symposium is not
meant to be a one-time experience, but a tool to support them in what it is
they are committed to making happen in their community and in the world.
Paul Hawken input, June 2006
31. What participants most want from the Presenter is for him or her to show
up, to be a loving, committed person helping to create a dialogue that
brings everyone together.
32. If you put whats good in the world in the context of whats wrong, thats a
recipe for despair. If you put the bad in the context of the good, there is
always a way to hold it, no matter how terrifying it is.
33. People are willing to go through a dark night of the soul in the Symposium if
they can see there is a way out (i.e., a robust display of solutions).
34. Pessimism is now fashionable. It may be true, but its not helpful. Theres no
time to be right; we need to be at work.
35. Light or wry humor, if done respectfully, illustrates that you have been there
and back.
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Van Jones presentation at the Global Gathering, June 2007
36. What its going to take to turn this thing aroundthe politics of inclusion, of
solidarity, of love, of empathyits not optional; its the only way we are
going to survive.
37. Once you understand how much programming has gone into getting you to
see the world the way you do, you have a much more realistic sense of the
process of unwinding it.
38. Your passion for solving the worlds problems is going to bring you, if it
hasnt already, up against yourself. And that will be the deepest well for you
to tap, in being able to move other people.
39. The first step (re: social justice) should be to listen and learn. Just go and
listen and learn.
40. We are running out of time: grow your comfort zone!
Bill Twist, CEO The Pachamama Alliance, May 2008
41. In the Symposium, tell them youre going to tell them; tell them; then tell
them that youve told them (re: promise they will be left in a state of blessed
unrest, empowered to communicate to others).
42. Whats needed is an informed, optimistic, generating people who have a
commitment and who have a stake in creating a future. Thats all weretrying to do. Why we are doing this is based on the premise that a key
component that needs to be brought in place for a new future, and a
renewed sense of our own humanity is to create a cadre, a movement of
awake, informed possibility-generating people.
43. Were not trying to tell people what to do; let other organizations do that. We
want people to come out of the Symposium seeing a new possibility for the
future and realizing, I have the force of the universe behind meand yet at
the same time I am trapped in a way of thinking that doesnt serve me any
longer.
44. You dont have to be zealot. Be a communicator. Look for opportunities to
communicate so your voice can alwaysbe counted on to make a
contribution. You will stay in a state of Blessed Unrest if you can count on
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yourself to always communicate the urgency/possibility whenever youre in
a conversation that seems to be off.
Notes to ourselves on Blessed Unrest
Conversations from Ecuador with Bill Twist, May 2008
45. Our work is to create a cadre, movement of awake, committed, engaged
people. We describe the state they are in with the words Blessed Unrest.
46. Blessed Unrest is a state of agitation from which creation can flow. Its the
state you are in when your dreams start responding to your unconscious.
Its not a passive state. Its the state through which creation can flow. There
is an immediacy to blessed unrest. Its a state in which you are in resonance
with what wants to speak through you or use you. You are tuned to what
wants to move in the world, you are an instrument. Its a state where your
vibrational frequency is such that your connection to it all makes it possible
that something can work through you.
47. Our work is to contribute to the creation a global movement of awake
people who are informed, optimistic, able to see and create a possibility for
the future and are committed to taking action regarding that and who know
that they are significant as an individual, but more important that this is part
of a some divine [expression]; part of some global movement that is
happening.
48. Its not that we give people tools and they can now be effective. That ignores
that its part of this great unfolding. We human beings are not doing it
ourselves; theres this force that set the stars in motionand it is still in
place, working through you. Its not just connect enough people and the job
is done, rather, we need to be aware that there is something larger that is
happening that we can participate with.
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49. Be careful to not make it too personal. Its not about you. This is not
something we are doing ourselves. This is about being part of something
that, as it grows, will make the difference. Its not that youneed to come up
with the answers, with the solutions. Rather, youre part of something and in
the building of it, something unpredictable will be created.
50. Re: spiritual fulfillment in this work: For us, spiritual fulfillment has to do with
being in a state where you recognize that there is a force working through
us. Its not about, I need to be fulfilled. Its about knowing that you are part
of something, that you are a reflection, a hologram of the larger whole. That
is spiritual fulfillmentwhen you know you are part of the greater whole.
51. People think blessed unrest means youre supposed to feel good andblessed. B.U. is not about feeling good all the time. Its not necessarily fun.
52. Just being committed is inadequate. Blessed Unrest is a state where
people are committedand at work. (And its good to keep in mind that
there also may not be any evidence that its working during our lifetimes).
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Your Next Steps & Resources
Taking the following steps will have you in action as quickly as possible. Note, thesteps are not sequentialyou can work on all four simultaneously. Our best advice
for you is dont wait! Jump in now, so you can see how much there is to support
you and get into action easily.
Step 1. Schedule your living room Symposium and make it
happen!
Decide on a venue and time.
If possible, invite at least one co-leader and one production person, and
maybe your mentor.
Invite the participants. It can be just a few friends or family membersmake
it easy.
Schedule practice sessions with your co-leader, dividing the sections.
Use the resources listed below to help you have a fabulously successful
living room Symposium.
Step 2. Connect with people who can support you
Connect with your training group: use your Training Group Roster(and
maybe ask someone to be buddies to offer mutual support)
Contact your mentor. (Youll receive his/her name and contact information
from the training host within a week of your trainingand if you dont, call
the training host.)
Connect with an Awakening the Dreamer Community Group. Download the
Roster of Community Group Leaders from the Facilitator Network home
page.
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Volunteer to be on the production team for an existing Symposium (through
any of the above people).
Volunteer to be on the production team for an existing Symposium through
your Awakening the Dreamer Community Group.
If you dont live near an existing Awakening the Dreamer Community Group,
you can invite several of the people from your living room Symposium to be
on a team with you to put on Symposiums locally. If they want to present,
they can download the Symposium Presenters Kit in the Facilitators
resource section of the Pachamama Alliance website.
Orient them on how to use it and Presto! Now you have an Awakening the
Dreamer Community Group!
Step 3. Explore thewealthof Online Resources to Support You as
a Facilitator:
1. The Facilitators Section of The Pachamama Alliance website:
http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators
The Transformative Workshops section of the Pachamama site has lots
of useful information about the Symposium and other Workshops. The
Facilitator Resources hub, accessible through a button in the upper
right corner of the home page
(http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators/login) will be a particularly useful
area for you. You will need to create a login, after which you can:
a. Download Symposium video assets and handouts for free
b. Create and manage your own events on the Map
c. Download a host of manuals, handouts and guides to deliver
Transformative Workshops
d. Browse Facilitator FAQs about DVDs, the store and logging in
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e. Instantly access the online Facilitator Network to connect with others
f. See our online store
g. See the latest news for Facilitators instantly
2. Event Map: http://www.pachamama.org/workshops/search/
The Event Map is the place to post your events so that members of the public can
find them. To create a profile, manage and update your various events, simply log
in to the Facilitators section of the website (as listed above). Here, you can view
and download lists of attendees for your events, and contact them through the map.
3. Newsletter: www.pachamama.org/facilitators
Sign up to the quarterly Facilitator Newsletter for new tools, tips and the latest news
when you register for the Facilitators section. If youve already registered and
receiving it, get in touch: [email protected]. For all other Pachamama
Alliance updates, make sure youre signed up to the monthly New Moon newsletter
here: http://www.pachamama.org/get-involved/receive-our-email-updates
4. Online Store: http://atlasbooks.com/marktplc/03213.htm
Here you can purchase supplies for your Symposiums, such as
Ecuadorian bracelets and Symposium video assets. Alternatively, you
can also find the link to the store in the Facilitator Resources section of
the Pachamama website
Other Resources outside the Facilitators Hub:
5. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PachamamaAlliance
Post your events, news and ideas about the Awakening the Dreamer
Symposium. Use it as a tool to reach out to the entire network of anyone
who is a fan of this work.
6. Twitter: http://twitter.com/PachamamaOrg
Follow us on Twitter for all the latest, or tweet @PachamamaOrg to get
our attention!
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7. Wiki: http://wiki.awakeningthedreamer.org/w/page/13370150/FrontPage
The Wiki is an archive of Awakening the Dreamer program materials
and those adapted by various communities. Most of these materials are
being transitioned over into the Facilitators section of the Awakening the
Dreamer website, but explore the Wiki if you are looking for V2 or older
versions of the Symposium, promotional materials or translations.
8. Global Facilitator Yahoo Group:
This is a global email group of Facilitators. Join to send out
communications to a large number of Facilitators world-wide, or to read
communications from them. You can choose to receive only a daily
digest of these e-mails if preferable. Heres the URL for the Yahoo
Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/awakening_the_dreamer/. You
can request to joinand please identify what training group you were
part of, in your request to the moderator.
9. Online videos: https://vimeo.com/pachapeople
View our online videos, including the Symposium trailer.
Support
You can find all the tools you need at the Facilitator Resources hub
(http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators) which also includes a Frquently Asked
Questions section. If you still need help, you can always reach is via email at
Your Feedback
Once your Symposium has taken place, please remember to fill out the Event
Completion Report
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(https://docs.google.com/a/pachamama.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE9H
eE1qS3lDYVcwZi1VaUxsejVUQkE6MQ#gid=0), which you will receive
automatically from the Event system after your event. You can also access this
report in My Events. Your feedback on the outcome of your Symposiums is an
integral element of the process to further develop the Symposium.
Registration and Login for the Facilitators
Hub
Go to the Pachamama website and log in to the Facilitators section located on the
top right of the home page. Select either:
1. Register and create your profile for first time users:
http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators/register
2. If youre already registered, log in here:
http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators
Using the events map to post and manage events:
Once logged in to the Facilitators Hub, you can post and publicize your symposium
(or other events) on the Pachamama website so that people can search and sign
up for them. You can do this by following these steps:
1) From the My Events section to the left of the page you can:
a. Add new events
b. View and edit upcoming events (that you have already saved as
a draft or published)
c. View and manage all your past events, including updating final
attendee numbers, downloading attendee lists and giving us your
feedback and suggestions.
2) To see who has registered for your event, click View All Attendees inyour upcoming event section
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3) From here, you can also add and delete individual attendees, or contact
all attendees (you can also edit attendees and download their details
from the past events section once your event has passed).
NOTE: Attendees can choose whether or not to allow you to see their email
address. If they have chosen to keep their contact information private, you will still
be able to contact them through the Email All Attendees function.
4) When you edit your event, you will have the option at that time of
emailing all attendees regarding your changes.
NOTE: The Events system automatically sends confirmation emails to all event
attendees upon their registration for your event. Attendees will also receive a
reminder two days before the event. If the event is cancelled, they automatically
receive a cancellation notice.
Poems
Keeping SilentNow we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth,
let's not speak in any language;
let's stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.
Fisherman in the cold sea would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt would not look at his hurt hands.
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Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused with total inactivity.
life is what it is about.....
If we were not so single minded about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us,
as when everything seems dead in winter and later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.
Pablo Neruda
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This Love Between Us
This love between us
goes back to before the first humans.
It has no beginning;
It has no ending.
As the river flows into the sea,
what flows in you, flows in me.
Kabir
There Is a Brokenness
There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness out
of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy
and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.
There is a hollow space
too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
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out of whose darkness
we are sanctioned into being.
There is a cry deeper than all sound
whose serrated edges cut the heart
as we break open to the place inside
which is unbreakable and whole,
while learning to sing.
Rashani
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
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are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
Loaves and Fishes
This is not the age of information.
This is not
the age of information.
Forget the news,
and the radio,
and the blurred screen.
This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.
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People are hungry,
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.
David Whyte
This Being Human is a Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be cleaning you out
for some new delight.
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The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
When I Was the Stream
When I was the stream, when I was the forest,
when I was still the field, when I was every hoof,
foot, fin, and wing, when I was the sky itself;
No one ever asked me did I have a purpose,
no one ever wondered was there anything I might need . . .
for there was nothing I could not love.
It was when I left all we once were that the agony began,
that the fear and questions came and I wept. I wept.
And tears I had never known before.
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were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt - marvelous error! -
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.
Last night as I slept,
I dreamt - marvelous error! -
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.
Antonio Machado,
translated by Robert Bly
LostStand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHell begins the day that God grants you the vision
to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but
did not do.
Joseph CampbellThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the
Universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Louis PasteurLet me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength
lies solely in my tenacity.
Mahatma GandhiThe goal ever recedes from us. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not
in the attainment. Full effort is full victory!. You must not worry whether the
desired result follows your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means
correct!. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
Mahatma GandhiOne cannot do right in one department of life whilst he isoccupied in doing wrong in any other department of life. Life is one indivisible
whole.
Mahatma GandhiWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of
truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murders and for a
time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fail. Think of it: always.
Mahatma Gandhi Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from
an indomitable will.
Margaret MeadYou can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can onlysave the whole world.
Margaret MeadNever doubt that a small band of committed people can change
the world. Indeed, nothing else ever has.
Martin Luther King, Jr. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps
life moving, you
lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so
today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Youdont have to have a college degree to serve. You dont have to make your subject
and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace; a soul generated
by love.
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The Pachamama Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. Its mission is to empower
indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and using insights gained from that
Mother TeresaPrayer without action is no prayer at all. You have to work as if
everything depended on youand leave the rest to God.
R.Buckminster FullerIf the success or failure of this planet and of human beings
depended on how I am and what I do, How would I be? What would I do?
Thomas BerryOur life has been given to us, not earned. How we live is about how
we respond to this gift.
Thurman WhitmanDont ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what
makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive.
William JamesThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitudes.