Creating our collective dream

HONESDALE — The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium will be presented from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Honesdale on Saturday, May 2. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. A $15 donation includes coffee and pastries during registration and a light lunch. Please bring your own mug. The day will include group discussions, exercises and video presentations featuring insight from inspiring philosophers, scientists and community leaders like Paul Hawken, Julia Butterfly Hill and Desmond Tutu, and focuses on how we can “bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as a guiding principle of our time.” It is an opportunity to come together with other people who care deeply about our world and our community. This event will move you into a place of understanding, compassion and empowerment from which you can discover and implement new solutions to the pressing problems of our world. Created by the Pachamama Alliance, an organization based in San Francisco, CA and founded in 1995 to work with indigenous people in South America to save their rain forest, the symposium carries the message of these traditional Earth-honoring peoples, who urge us, for the sake of all life, to “change the dream of the North.” This challenge to transform our collective dream is a do-it-yourself project accomplished by committed individuals working alone and with one another to bring about meaningful changes in the way we interact with each other and the earth. To register online, go to www.awakeningthedreamer.org and click on Symposium map/Find a symposium/Honesdale, PA, or call 570-253-8475 or e-mail pianov8@yahoo.com for more information.