Exploring Spiritual, Social & Environmental Sustainability
This workshop has been cancelled.
Presented by The Omega Center for Sustainable Living and The Pachamama Alliance
A new vision is emerging on our planet, a vision of an awakened global consciousness rooted in environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. This weekend event, cosponsored by The Pachamama Alliance and Omega Institute, shows us how traditional wisdom and cutting-edge technology can lead us forward into this emerging new reality.
Friday
On Friday evening, Lynne Twist, founder of the Soul of Money Institute, shares how we can relate to money and the money culture in ways that affirm life and the common good, and John Perkins, an economist and expert in shamanism, shows us how people from diverse cultures and backgrounds can help us shift consciousness to more sustainable lifestyles
Saturday
Saturday’s events are led by Nancy Miriam Hawley, Bill Kistler, and Susan Lantz from The Pachamama Alliance, a nonprofit group working to create a new global vision of equity and sustainability.
Through dynamic group interactions, leading edge information, and inspiring multimedia, we are moved to reconnect with our deep concern for our world, and are empowered to make a difference.
Designed with the collaboration of some of the finest scientific, indigenous and activist minds in the world, this program explores the current state of our planet from a new perspective, and connects us with a powerful global movement to reclaim our future.
We explore four critical questions:
Where Are We? We examine the state of our environmental, social and personal well-being
How Did We Get Here? We trace the root causes that lead to our current imbalance
What’s Possible for the Future? We discover new ways of relating with each other, with the Earth, and the emerging movement for change
Where Do We Go from Here? We consider the stand we want to be in the world and our personal and collective impact
Sunday
Sunday’s sessions celebrate a project that is helping to accelerate the emergence of an environmentally sustainable world—the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL). Led by Skip Backus, Omega’s executive director and the visionary behind the OCSL, we learn how this new educational center and water treatment facility is pushing the boundaries of sustainable design. In the technology of the Eco Machine™, we witness how solutions to some of our most pressing problems are already present in nature itself, if we just stop and notice.
Throughout the weekend, we find courage and company as we boldly awaken and find ways to help contribute to this new Earth.
Faculty John Perkins is a New York Times best-selling author of many books, including Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He is the founder of Dream Change, a worldwide grassroots movement of people dedicated to shifting consciousness and promoting sustainable lifestyles. dreamchange.org
Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author of The Soul of Money. Founder of The Soul of Money Institute, she has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives. soulofmoney.org
Skip Backus is executive director at Omega. A contractor and operations director at Omega for more than 20 years, he has provided the visionary leadership for the OCSL, which is expected to be the first “Living Building” in the United States.
The Pachamama Alliance’s mission is to preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians, and to create a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all. pachamama.org
Nancy Miriam Hawley is chief executive officer of Enlignment®, Inc., a business coaching and consulting company specializing in leadership development and organizational change. She is a seasoned facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium and is a founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, the organization responsible for the best-selling Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Bill Kistler is a senior art director and graphic designer for a marketing services firm. He has been facilitating Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposiums since 2006 and in 2007 worked with The Pachamama Alliance to develop their volunteer corps of symposium presenters.
Susan Lantz is a retired reference librarian. Her study of the work of Thomas Berry, with Miriam MacGillis of Genesis Farm, led her to become a facilitator for the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium in 2006. A seasoned community leader and organizer, her life is informed by her desire for all beings to live in peace with each other and with the planet.
Additional faculty will be joining this event. We will add more details as they become available.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Inc. is qualified as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax-deductible, as allowed by the law.
