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TRAINING NOTEBOOK
Facilitator Training Agenda Purpose & Intended Results of the Facilitator Training Purpose & Intended Results of the Symposium Intentions of the Sections Notes to Ourselves in Designing the Symposium Your Next Steps & Resources to Support You How To Join & Use the ATD Website, Facilitators Network, & Yahoo Group Where (and Who) To Go To For Support Poems and Quotations 2 3 5 6 7 11 13 17 19

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FACILITATOR TRAINING PROGRAM AGENDA

FIRST DAY 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) DINNER EVENING SESSION: Going Deeper with Social Justice Relational Presence SECOND DAY 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 & INTENDED RESULTS OF THE 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 RESULTS
In 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 ourselves open to information and guidance from the natural world and have an appreciation of indigenous spirit practices and wisdom.

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 information and record keeping.

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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. 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 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.

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.
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INTENTIONS OF THE SECTIONS

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.

INTENTIONS OF THE SECTIONS

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. 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, unexamined assumptions 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

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. (1) Wisdom, expertise and experience exist in the participants. We need to be respectful and honor that. (2) 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. (3) Our work is to address the unexamined assumptions, not come up with solutions that are merely more, different or better. (4) We dont live in the world, we live in the story we tell ourselves about the world. (5) 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.) (6) 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. (7) 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. (8) 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. (9) 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 in the room is getting heavy or locked and shift it by switching to another modality. (10) 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. (11) 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. (12) When people see real possibility, that leads to responsibility and the ability to act. We do not need to convince people of anything. (13) 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. (14) 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. (15) 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. (16) 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. (17) 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. (18) 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. (19) Do not be heavy or significant or righteous in presenting the material; come from a sort of grounded lightness. (20)

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Whatever you do, dont shortchange the Where Do We Go From Here? and Getting into Action sections. (21) 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. (22) Allow indigenous wisdom/shamanic insights into your own understanding, more and more. People may have resistance to the idea of it; however we dont have to name it in order to be able to use it in the Symposium. (23) 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. (24) 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. (25) Dont have your attention so on the manual and screen that you lose track of 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) 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. (27) Reading the manual is almost never preferable to generating it. The Presenters job is to illuminate the messages of the Symposium; to bring life and 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. (28) 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. (29) [2010 update] 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. (30) Paul Hawken input, June 2006 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. (31) 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. (32) 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). (33) Pessimism is now fashionable. It may be true, but its not helpful. Theres no time to be right; we need to be at work. (34) Light or wry humor, if done respectfully, illustrates that you have been there and back. (35) From Van Jones presentation at the Global Gathering, June 2007 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. (36) 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. (37)
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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. (38) The first step (re: social justice) should be to listen and learn. Just go and listen and learn. (38) We are running out of time: grow your comfort zone! (39) Bill Twist input, May 2008 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). (40) Whats needed is an informed, optimistic, generating people who have a commitment and who have a stake in creating a future. Thats all were trying 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. (41) 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. (42) You dont have to be zealot. Be a communicator. Look for opportunities to communicate so your voice can always be counted on to make a contribution. You will stay in a state of Blessed Unrest if you can count on yourself to always communicate the urgency/possibility whenever youre in a conversation that seems to be off. (43)

NOTES TO OURSELVES ON BLESSED UNREST, May 2008

Conversations from Ecuador with Bill Twist

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. (44) 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. (45) 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. (46) 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. (47) 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 you need 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. (48) 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
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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. (49) People think blessed unrest means youre supposed to feel good and blessed. B.U. is not about feeling good all the time. Its not necessarily fun. (50) 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). (51)

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YOUR NEXT STEPS & RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOU

Note: Items marked with an asterisk are either essential or really, really helpful! Taking the following three steps will have you in action as quickly as possible. Note, the steps 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 ATD Community Group. Download the Roster of Community Group Leaders from the Facilitator Network home page. 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 ATD Community Group. If you dont live near an existing ATD 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 at: http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org/facilitator-resources/presenters-kit/ Orient them on how to use it and Presto! Now you have an ATD Community Group!

Step 3. Explore the wealth of online resources available to you as a Facilitator

Explore the Awakening the Dreamer website, <http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org>, which has two main component parts: 1) The Events Map: Scroll over the large Events Map button (upper right corner of the home page) and log in to register all of your Awakening the Dreamer and Pachamama Alliance events.. 2) The Facilitator Resources center: Click on the Facilitators button (also on the upper right hand side of the home page). This area contains news and updates for facilitators, and the Download Center, with access to Awakening the Dreamer events materials. The Download Center includes: Promotional materials for your Symposiums Symposium handouts
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Symposium Presenters Manual (some people like to re print their manual in another font or size) and Background References Different versions of the Presenters Manual Online Facilitator Report to report the results of your Symposium into an online database, so that we can all have some idea how quickly the Symposium is spreading.

The Facilitator Network is a social network especially for Awakening the Dreamer facilitators and supporters. You need to create a username and password to access the Facilitator Network. Instructions for the first-time log-in are in the How to Join & Use the Events Map, Facilitators Network and Yahoo Group section of this document). Take some time to explore the resources on the Facilitators Network: Look at the list of Quick Links on the right-hand side of the Facilitators Network home page, to link to the other websites listed and hyper-linked below (see especially How to Use the FN). Or, in the alternative, you can go directly to those additional websites by entering the web addresses written below directly into your server. Either approach works to get you to these very useful websites. Explore the Groups link at the top of the home page to see all the social networking groups for Facilitators Explore the Videos link at the top of the home page Create your personal profile page (have a photo ready to upload) (instructions for this are in the How to Join & Use the ATD Website, Facilitators Network and Yahoo Group section of this document) Look at more information on how to use the Facilitators Network at <http://www.atdnet.org/notes>. The ATD Store is where you can purchase supplies for your Symposiums, such as Ecuadorian bracelets and Pachamama brochures: <http://store.awakeningthedreamer.org/> Check out the ATD Blog, which functions like an online newsletter for the Awakening the Dreamer community: <http://awakeningthedreamer.org/blog> Join the Facilitator Yahoo Group (instructions about how to join the Yahoo Group are in the How to Join & Use the ATD Website, Facilitators Network and Yahoo Group section of this document) <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/awakening_the_dreamer/> And did we forget to mention? Be sure to schedule your first living room symposium and put it on! Have a great time in your role as a change agent and Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium Facilitator.
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HOW TO JOIN AND USE THE AWAKENING THE DREAMER WEBSITE, FACILITATORS NETWORK, AND YAHOO GROUP
INTRODUCTION
The Awakening the Dreamer new website is designed to support the quickly growing community of the Awakening the Dreamer Initiative. Here are just some of the things you can do through the Awakening the Dreamer website (www.awakeningthedreamer.org/) and related links. Find all the resources and documents you need to put on a Symposiumwhether you are a host, production team member, or presenterincluding the Symposium Manual, all handouts, the Hosting & Production Guidelines, and a packet of high-quality PR materials. Post registration details for your upcoming Symposiums and other Awakening the Dreamer events for all visitors to the website to see and they can register and pay online. Post and read about the latest news, developments, websites, or whatever else related to the Initiative that might help you and your fellow facilitators present the most upto-date and powerful Symposiums possible. In the Facilitators Network connect, network, and communicate with your fellow facilitators around whatever topics interest youthe Youth Symposium, most successful practices, reaching new demographics, whatever you want! (The Facilitators Network is limited to Symposium facilitators and facilitator trainees.)

To gain access to all these great resources, read on!

REGISTRATION AND LOGIN FOR THE AWAKENING THE DREAMER WEBSITES

Facilitators Network: Connect with Facilitators around the world, share video and photos related to Symposiums, and Quick Links to other key ATD resources. Create a profile and password to gain access. URL: www.atdnet.org Heres how to complete registration for the Facilitators Network area: 1) Go to: http://atdnet.org 2) Click on the button in the upper right corner of the page: New? Click here to join. 3) Complete the form including your email address, preferred secure password, birthday, and security code. 4) Then, click, Sign Up. 5) The next page asks you to fill in your display name, select an avatar photo (any photo of you will do), and fill in your personal information. Once you have complete this page, click Join and your registration will be processed for approval, which usually happens in the same business day.

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Events Map: Open to the public, this system allows anyone who wants to host an Awakening the Dreamer event for public listing on the website, once you have logged in with a username URL: www.awakeningthedreamer.org/events-map/ Heres how to become an Event Host the Events Map registration system: 1) Go to: http://awakeningthedreamer.org/ 2) Scroll over the button for Events Map. 3) From the drop-down menu, select Register to Post Events. 4) Complete the registration form, and you are now ready to publish your events. Initially, you will need to register and create a username and password twice (although it can be the same username and password!)once to get access to the Events Map, and the second time to get access to the Facilitators Network. Note: Your registration to the Facilitators Network requires approval from the webmaster to ensure that only Awakening the Dreamer Community members have access to this area of the website; in contrast, your registration for the Events Map is automatic, because anyone can host a symposium. Facilitator Resources: Where facilitators can find and download the latest delivery materials, such as the Presenters Manual, foreign language translations, handouts, promotional documents, productions guidelines, youth initiative materials, downloadable DVD, Keynote and PowerPoint audio-visual symposium files, and more. URL: awakeningthedreamer.org/facilitator-resources/

USING THE EVENTS MAP

Registering and Managing Symposiums
Once youve decided to offer a Symposium, you can post your symposium to the website so that participants can sign up for it by following these steps: 1) Scroll over the button for Events Map. 2) From the drop-down menu, select Log In to Post and Manage. 3) Log in using the username and password you selected during your initial registration. 4) Use the links under the dashboard to add new events, view events that you have already saved as a draft or published, and to edit upcoming events. 5) To view and edit a single upcoming event, click My Upcoming Events and click on the single event youd like to view. BE SURE TO SAVE YOUR CHANGES 6) To see who has registered for your event: From the single event page, click View All Attendees. 7) From here, you can add and delete individual attendees, or contact all attendees. 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. 8) Enter your message below the attendee list. When you edit your event, you will also 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. Attendees will also receive a reminder two days before the event. IMPORTANT: Once your Symposium has taken place, please remember to fill out the Facilitator Completion Report form when it is emailed to you. Your feedback on the outcome of your Symposiums is an integral element of the process to further develop the Symposium.
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USING THE FACILITATORS NETWORK

Once you have registered and logged in to the Facilitators Network, there is a whole world of useful tools and resources you can use. A good introduction to the use of the Facilitators Network is a video called How to Use the Facilitators Network which can be found at http://www.atdnet.org/notes or by clicking on the How to Use link under the Quicklinks bar. The Facilitators Network has a wealth of information and resources available to the facilitator body and is being updated constantly by the community itself. It is a good idea to check back at the website frequently for new video posts, new events from Pachamama and the Awakening the Dreamer Initiative, and countless other resources exclusively available to the Facilitators Network. The Facilitators Network is a community hub that includes access to many different tools and resources. The main bar at the top of the page has links to many tools exclusive to the facilitator body such as: Inspiring videos Photos from Facilitator Events A Discussion Forum for continued inspiration and troubleshooting. Groups to help facilitators with shared interests collaborate. You can also keep up with your fellow facilitators by making them your friends from the Members page. This feature works just like a social networking tool, and gives you access to their personal profiles where you can leave them notes and send personal messages. Quick Links Sidebar The Quick Links on the right hand side bar of the Facilitators Network page provides access to all the most update facilitator resources. This section is maintained by the Pachamama Alliance office and includes: o Instructions on how to use the Facilitators Network. o A current roster of all the Symposium Facilitators o A list of all Awakening the Dreamer Community Coordinators o Links to the ATD Blog and the Facilitators Yahoo Group o Links to the Download Center for symposium, workshop, and training resources.

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THE FACILITATORS YAHOO GROUP

For those facilitators who would like to receive information from a wide group of other facilitators in the form of a daily digest of e-mails (or individual e-mails), or who would like to widely distribute information to a large group of other facilitators, the Yahoo Group offers this capability. For instance, if you want to announce to facilitators in general, There is a wonderful article in the New York Times today about the growing influence of traditional indigenous wisdom, the Yahoo Group will allow you to notify the approximately 500 facilitators (currently) who have chosen to join the Yahoo Group. When someone signs up for the Yahoo Group, he/she is given an option to receive the e-mails posted to the group in the form of a Daily Digestone e-mail each day that lists all e-mails sent the previous 24 hours (enabling you to scan down the list to see which ones you might want to read). At the end of each e-mail from the Yahoo Group, there is a place to click to change from the digest function to receiving the individual e-mails, or vice-versa. Heres the URL for the Yahoo Group (Awakening_the_Dreamer): 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.
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WHERE (AND WHO) TO GO TO FOR SUPPORT

Note: The Facilitator Resources center (http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org/facilitator-resources) offers access to everything you need to put on a Symposium, find out about trainings, and help build your local community. There are many more resources than are discussed below, so explore and enjoy! Difficulty logging into the Events Map or the Facilitators Network? 1) Please carefully review the instructions in the How To Join & Use the Events Map and Facilitators Network section of this document to make sure you are following them accurately. 2) Both the Facilitator Network and Events Map have links on their login pages to reset your passwords. 3) Check with a tech-proficient friend to see if they can help. 4) Still have a problem? Contact support@pachamama.org. Problems with posting your symposium or other event to the Events Map? 1) Please carefully review the instructions for posting a Symposium in the How To Join & Use the Events Map and Facilitators Network section of this document to make sure you are following 2) Check with a tech-proficient friend to see if they can help. 3) Still have a problem? Contact support@pachamama.org or click on the feedback and support link on every page of www.awakeningthedreamer.org. Need bracelets, Pachamama brochures or rainforest trips brochures? These can be purchased from an online ATD Store at the following website: http://store.awakeningthedreamer.org You should order these supplies at least two weeks beforehand shorter delivery times are available through the ATD Store, at extra cost to you. Would you like to download Symposium publicity fliers (that you can modify to promote your Symposium), promotional documents, etc.? Go to the Facilitator Resources page, and visit Symposium Downloads. Where do I get copies of the handouts needed for my Symposium? Go to the Facilitator Resources page, and visit Symposium Downloads. Where do I file my post-Symposium Online Facilitator Report? You will be emailed the form when your event has ended. You may complete the form at that time or email support@pachamama.org to have a copy re-sent to you. Want to contact or find facilitators or community group leaders in another part of the United States or another country? Find or start a regional group on the Facilitator Network (http://atdnet.org), or connect with your local Community Coordinator (http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org/participate-overview/connect-withcommunity/) to find other facilitators in your area. Need information about upcoming facilitator trainings? Upcoming trainings are listed on the Events Map. For additional information (for instance, about scheduling a new training in your area) contact support@pachamama.org. Want to learn about the latest developments in the ATD Initiative? The ATD Blog functions like an online newsletter for the ATD Initiative: http://awakeningthedreamer.org/blog In addition, the Change Agent newsletter that comes out each month and contains news and updates from around the world. If you registered as a Facilitator at the time you downloaded your Symposium Presenters Kit, but are not receiving this newsletter, do two things: a) Check the trash file to see if the spam filter on your e-mail server is filtering out the Change Agent, and, if so, clear it to be received, or b) send an e-mail to support@pachamama.org and explain the problem. Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Facilitator Training Notebook 1/13/12 17

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream SymposiumFacilitator Training Program Want to use the Keynote or Powerpoint Version of the Symposium? Keynote is a Mac-based presentation software that makes it easy to edit, add or subtract video content. Using the Keynote version of the Symposium requires a certain level of computer proficiency. Powerpoint is the same kind of presentation software for a PC. You can obtain the Keynote or Powerpoint files (note: you must have the appropriate software on your computer) of the Symposium videos by downloading them from the Download Center under Facilitator Resources. If you have any questions or need help contact support@pachamama.org. 1/16/12

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POEMS
KEEPING SILENT Now 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. 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

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

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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, 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, 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

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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. 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. 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

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Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream SymposiumFacilitator Training Program 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. So I returned to the river. I returned to the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again. I begged--I begged to wed every object and creature. And when they accepted, God was ever present in my arms. Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) Last Night As I Was Sleeping Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvelous error! that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvelous error! that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees 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 Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Facilitator Training Notebook 1/13/12 22

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream SymposiumFacilitator Training Program Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you. David Wagoner

COMPILED QUOTATIONS
Abraham Lincoln With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. 3 Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. Henry David Thoreau We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell 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 Campbell The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the Universe, to match your nature with Nature. Louis Pasteur Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. Mahatma Gandhi The 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 Gandhi One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department of life. Life is one indivisible whole. Mahatma Gandhi When 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 Mead You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. Margaret Mead Never 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 Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Facilitator Training Notebook 1/13/12 23

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream SymposiumFacilitator Training Program 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. You dont 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. Mother Teresa Prayer without action is no prayer at all. You have to work as if everything depended on youand leave the rest to God. R.Buckminster Fuller If 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 Berry Our life has been given to us, not earned. How we live is about how we respond to this gift. Thurman Whitman Dont 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 James The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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