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Pachamama Ayni's Founder/Executive Director Alice
Iida traveled to the areas of Lima, Cusco, Urubamba,
Ollantaytambo, Tunupa, Chahuaytiri, Pisac, Willoq,
Tipon, Koricancha, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios,
Infierno, Machu Picchu, Puno and the Island of
Amantani on Lake Titikaka in Perú during the months of
September and October, 2009. She visited various
communities in these areas, and has formed alliances
with different organizations in the areas.
She also traveled to Ecuador with the Pachamama
Alliance in September 2009 and spent time with the
Achuar, in their territories. The Achuar have unified to
keep their lands protected, and they have successfully
kept oil companies from entering their territories for over
ten years. There is, however, much work that is yet to be
done in partnership with them. Pachamama Ayni is in
the process of putting together a plan on how best to
work with them.
We have put together a number of projects and proposals
and are currently working on outlining them on our
website. Pachamama Ayni should have a complete,
interactive and updated website by the end of the year.
"If you are coming to help us, you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with ours.....then let us work together." -Indigenous Elder |
* See and hold the vision of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet, as an achievable dream for our future. * That people around the world will continue to play a part in bringing this about. |
Alice will be hosting her first Symposium on November 22, 2009 in Alamo, California. She
will also be hosting Symposiums on the Hawaiian Islands, as well as in New Zealand. She
hopes to bring the Youth Initiative version of the Symposium and share this in schools and
youth gatherings. We will be updating you via our website and our blog.
will also be hosting Symposiums on the Hawaiian Islands, as well as in New Zealand. She
hopes to bring the Youth Initiative version of the Symposium and share this in schools and
youth gatherings. We will be updating you via our website and our blog.
there will be many exciting developments in the months to come. Please continue to follow us for updates on the exciting projects we are undertaking! If you're interested in getting involved, helping, supporting, sharing or volunteering, read more here. |
About Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium
The "Dream of the North," or, the Dream of the Modern World, is our culture of consumption and
acquisition, where our latest purchases devastate the land and exploit the less-privileged,
where our waste poisons the rivers and skies, where injustice, warfare and terror are
systematized by corporations, sanctioned by our elected officials and then taken by us to be
normal.
The invitation to The Pachamama Alliance from their South American allies was clear: if we
really want to help them, we need to work with them in our part of the world. The Pachamama
Alliance began to ask: how do we change the Dream of the Modern World? How do we shift an
entire worldview? The Pachamama Alliance knew this could 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.
The Pachamama Alliance's response to the request from the Achuar is the Awakening the
Dreamer Initiative, which aims to wake people up from the destructive dream in which we are
currently devouring the planet, and to inspire us then to step consciously into a new dream,
the pursuit of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human
presence on this Earth.
The principal focus of Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium, is a half-day
workshop designed to awaken and inspire people to take action in pursuit of this vision of a
fair, peaceful and sustainable future.
The aim of the Symposium is to grapple and come to grips with the very assumptions that
underlie the way we ourselves see the world and our place in it, and with what each of us can
do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the world in this new direction.
The Pachamama Alliance has taken this initiative around the world with partner organisations
like Be the Change in the UK and Australia, with emerging self-organised groups in Belgium,
New Zealand and Argentina. It is the hope that this Symposium will enable people to:
The "Dream of the North," or, the Dream of the Modern World, is our culture of consumption and
acquisition, where our latest purchases devastate the land and exploit the less-privileged,
where our waste poisons the rivers and skies, where injustice, warfare and terror are
systematized by corporations, sanctioned by our elected officials and then taken by us to be
normal.
The invitation to The Pachamama Alliance from their South American allies was clear: if we
really want to help them, we need to work with them in our part of the world. The Pachamama
Alliance began to ask: how do we change the Dream of the Modern World? How do we shift an
entire worldview? The Pachamama Alliance knew this could 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.
The Pachamama Alliance's response to the request from the Achuar is the Awakening the
Dreamer Initiative, which aims to wake people up from the destructive dream in which we are
currently devouring the planet, and to inspire us then to step consciously into a new dream,
the pursuit of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human
presence on this Earth.
The principal focus of Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium, is a half-day
workshop designed to awaken and inspire people to take action in pursuit of this vision of a
fair, peaceful and sustainable future.
The aim of the Symposium is to grapple and come to grips with the very assumptions that
underlie the way we ourselves see the world and our place in it, and with what each of us can
do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the world in this new direction.
The Pachamama Alliance has taken this initiative around the world with partner organisations
like Be the Change in the UK and Australia, with emerging self-organised groups in Belgium,
New Zealand and Argentina. It is the hope that this Symposium will enable people to:
Alice Iida and Jana Fleming have
participated in the Awakening the
Dreamer, Changing the Dream
facilitator training for the
Awakening the Dreamer: Changing
the Dream Symposium. The
Awakening the Dreamer Initiative
was created by The Pachamama
Alliance.
participated in the Awakening the
Dreamer, Changing the Dream
facilitator training for the
Awakening the Dreamer: Changing
the Dream Symposium. The
Awakening the Dreamer Initiative
was created by The Pachamama
Alliance.
Pachamama Ayni: A Documentary
Pachamama Ayni is gathering and documenting stories
on the various authentic, indigenous communities in
Perú. Areas of interest are stories that portray the
wisdom about the way they live, researching their views
on health, well-being, children, birth and death, and
the knowledge they possess in caring for our land and
resources.
It is our hope to be able to put this information into
visual format, but for the moment, we will be sharing
these stories on our website and our blog.
Pachamama Ayni is gathering and documenting stories
on the various authentic, indigenous communities in
Perú. Areas of interest are stories that portray the
wisdom about the way they live, researching their views
on health, well-being, children, birth and death, and
the knowledge they possess in caring for our land and
resources.
It is our hope to be able to put this information into
visual format, but for the moment, we will be sharing
these stories on our website and our blog.
