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Paul Hawken Pays Special Visit to Symposium Facilitator Training |
Paul Hawken Pays Special Visit to
Symposium Facilitator Training
Paul Hawken, renowned visionary and friend of the Pachamama Alliance, graced our latest Bay-area Facilitator Training with a visit. Using stories, insights and a tour of his newly launched web-tools, Paul informed and inspired our 32 new facilitators and the other guests and staff members assembled to hear him.
Weaving a tale that linked Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, he showed the importance of focusing on our intentions when the results of our actions are never clear or predictable in advance. He urged us to remain true to the intentions, vision and goals that have brought us each into the work of the Alliance.
One of the most powerful moments in the symposium for many people is the footage of Paul’s talk to the Bioneer’s conference in 2004 and the listing of 1000’s of organizations in this movement. From Paul’s continual monitoring he reported that the famous list now counts well over a million organizations and would occupy over a month’s screen time; it grows at an increasing rate by the day.
Sharing some of the ideas from his forthcoming book, Blessed Unrest, he compared this social movement to the body’s immune system. Citing this as the most complex system in human biology, he highlighted the elements of communication, education, creativity and behavior change within the human immune response, signifying the importance these processes have within our emergent social response.
This is the context into which Paul is launching his WiserEarth initiative and he proceeded to give us a tour of this new web-tool. He described it as a directory and networking forum to link and empower this movement and an important development of the ‘open-source’, collaborative approach that he maintains is necessary part of our work for change. The database can be edited by any user and is not moderated or ‘policed’ by the hosts; Paul maintains absolutely confidently that we can trust the community to protect the integrity of the information listed, another important element of the emerging worldview.
Blessed Unrest is due to be released on Earth Day, 22nd April, and WiserEarth is due to go live on 10th May.
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