Creating Good News for Humanity and Our Planet

I was led to ODE today by the peoples of the Ecuadoran rain forest, people that I have never met, yet to whom I owe a new vision of our collective positive potential. Two days ago I had the extraordinarily positive fortune to find myself, unplanned, in a symposium of the Pachamama Alliance. ( www.Pachamama.org ) Without a doubt, it was the most inspiring experience of creating good news that I have had. This is saying a lot, since I train trainers in appreciative inquiry, the art and technique of focusing groups on identifying and leveraging their greatest strengths and most positive qualities to change their world for the better.

The Pachamama Alliance has put together a Symposium called “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream.” I urge you to take a look at their website, www.awakeningthedreamer.org.

The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity's most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. The aim of the Symposium is not merely to learn more about the world, but 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.

I found the symposium, and the ideas and positive possibilities it opened up to me, to be all this and more. As this posting suggests, I have been moved to redouble my commitment to helping our world achieve sustainability and social justice. Please consider taking a minute to visit the links above for a glimpse into the wave of live-giving cultural transformation we all yearn for, but too often despair of ever finding.