them permission but assoon as i went to their website and started hearing about the work that they're doing globally and within communities locally i was so moved that i felt inspired to somehow become a part of it and to learn more about what they were doing so i heard that there was one happening here in seattle and i'm so glad i came the videos of them stow are incredible they're inspiring i feel like i cried i laughed i felt goosebumps and the presenters did such an incredible job on inspiring us and bringing together not only global issues issues but issues and making it all seems doable i feel felt like being in a room with people who are in my community that i didn't know has just filled me with such a sense of  inspiration and given what's happened recently with the oil spill in the gulf and the war in afghanistan then a little rock and i mean just everything i feel overwhelmed and to day has given me a breath of inspiration and a breath of community spirit that that will survive anything and that will not only survive but will thrive in the midst of chaos in the midst of crisis and we will create better options and better ways of being human so that we can all come together to protect each other and protect our planet and all its b mama i thank the presenters today i thank everyone who showed up and who came together today with the question of why was i called here wonderful to know th these initiatives are happening all over the world my contention that their wisdom our food and business peoples as well as our soldier elders is one way to bring this through means kerridge so what brought me here today actually was jamie seeger who was an artist shared with me that this was happening and it just sounded like something that art i'm totally engaged with working with young people every day i'm an educator i'm a teacher from the heart and i believe in learning and i think that learn is how we connect and in south africa i would spend some time with people from south africa and teachers and educators from south africa and one of the things i say they don't even use the word student i use the word learners because learner connects us and it sounded like when you're looking to change that's where i am on about let's see what we can do to change and move from where we are with no excuses and this is hard feel from my heart our children and bring them forward into the fullness of who they are are so i felt like hey i want to connect with some people who are feeling the same way and how we can expand together and i feel like i came away with that today and everyone here everyone i met has a sense of looking for a place to expand and to cling fears in their work so i felt a connection here today well the whole story of needing to become more connected within ourselves into each other to the earth was something that i've been working on all my life really and  when i saw the first symposium in part to mamma it just said on this piece of curriculum i teach teachers and so i'm always looking for things to offer teachers and this is ready made and it was just a perfect for filming of our mission of the heritage institute which is to educate for humanity on the world we want to see that you see the logo with people different colors with hands connected around the world and that has been our vision for years to bring together teachers and youth around the world to wake up become aware that we're in a really critical time in history and we need to change and we need to change in very fundamental ways and that's why i'm doing what i'm doing and what  i have been teaching in the last three years also inspiring people in relationship to nature and spirit and creativity and when i first heard about th it was from people near me where i lived at the time and i said to myself i know all this i don't need to go to the symposium so i didn't and then i met mike who said i suggest you look at it i don't look at the symposium as a loan initiative it is part of a much faster movement for world change that is expressed in all areas of iraq culture unions and labor in government and corporations in people's attempt to have more sustainable more justin form more meaningful lives and so i think of reawakening the dreamer be the change twenty five hundred facilitators around the world forty five different countries in itself making a contribution but it's just part of this much larger fabric that's going on so i think the entire initiative is quite powerful and quite impact to make a larger impact is already making an impact what captures me is the mission statement of a symposium which is a human presence on this planet that is spiritually fulfilled socially just in wajir mentally sustainable and that simple statement could take us anywhere and so the vision that i have is that the symposium can spin off and many different venues different populations of people different styles different ways of presenting that basic information that other how can we be more mindful about what really makes us happy and the symposium and the exercises that come from it eliminate that so the vision i can live how my side be that others can live mahatma gandhi said live simply that others may simply live and i think that's an ethic that we need to learn globally that we are all interconnected and that is not our right to live in excess if it's causing harm to other people and to the natural world and i think that message is really starting to get out there not only through this work but through a lot of other work that's going on that's in the same spirit just as a case in point this organization here the heritage those two we reach about three thousand teachers a year and when i did the math at one point i figured oh my gosh that means indirectly we're influencing a quarter of a million students two hundred fifty thousand students that's a lot of people that's a lot of consciousness a lot of awareness so big i'm really happy to see that we had so many teachers in the group today probably a good twenty two to twenty five or educators and they represent you know multiply that times well if they're in secondary you know it's one hundred fifty kids or so that there  could be thousands of kids just right there so to me that's why i'm doing this work is because it's a wonderful way to make the message multiply i think it's given me a way to stretch myself i would say that you know we're all looking for meaning in our life and i think you know there's times we get in to in our life and we say you know have i really done everything that i came here for if you if you have a sense of being called a having a sense of mission in life and i think that the this work awaken the dreamer be the change has helped me to feel more of that sense of why i'm here in this life and what you i would pick you back on that or symposium has focused a lot of my artwork a lot of my teaching whether i'm using a symposium video or not it doesn't matter the  urgency in me has built not to focus on the petty concerns that george bernard shaw so beautifully illustrates and his concern and a lot of your dysfunctions and diseases will evaporate because there's something so much bigger polling you forward in giving you a reason to live fully and i have eight grandchildren in my life now and i am very aware that the quality of my own life as a kid playing freely in the woods playing freely in the meadow that's  for most kids in our country today and that is a loss of connection and as a former psychotherapist i'm also fascinated by the idea that we are at an evolutionary leap in human consciousness and that perhaps for the first time in our human evolution our brains could truly be a mind a body brain and a whole brain with i intuition you know really coming back alive and keeping the scientific and the rational which we've honed so beautifully for the last that was in years that having a whole brain anything is possible for our history we are at a critical point where we can no longer continue to live the way we're living we're totally unsustainable at all levels spiritually economically environmentally in terms of social justice in any inequalities financially we know how fragile our global finance system is and so i think the appeal to each of you is to what is it this calling you in your life to do what is the bigger you that's wanting to happen and how can that also contribute to a better world a better community a better family a happier you because the happier you are the more at peace you are on the inside the more peace you bring to your families in your community the more peace you bring to the world and so we just say use this two million or so pristine acres for literally thousands of years and they're a dream people by that i mean that their educational system consists of waking up in the morning and the children the moms and dads and the elders convene and they tell their dreams what did you dream last night because they believe that the important information for what's wanting to happen that day comes in their dreams and in their dreams the elders were very disturbed because they kept on getting these very dangerous looking images of their land being spoiled and trees cut down and they'd seen what was happening in their neighboring tribes because the government had  gotten together with corporate interests and were drilling for oil what was happening was the water was getting spoiled the landscape was getting desecrated and they didn't know what to do but they decided to reach out to that very world that was threatening them and make a partnership and that began a connection between the arch war leaders and people in our part of the world actually from the bay area from san francisco and i think it was in one thousand nine hundred two the first group of people from our part of the world went down to the rainforest and had a trip and it was really transformative for the folks who went and out of that meeting came an agreement and the agreement was we will help you to preserve your lands and they didn't quite know how they were going to do that but then the art for said something else they said well you know we are great we are really happy that you've come down and that you're willing to help us here to save our two million acres of land unless you go back and change your part of the world change the dream of the north we're all sunk you see and i'm saying because we have to change our it was the way we're living the threatening the rainforest it's that mindset of exploitation the threatening the entire planet and our lives and so the two people who call themselves the found these notice not founders found translation of that word it means the world the earth the sky the water all of time all space or you might say it means everything how do we get here well that could be a really long way to analysis that would put us all to sleep but i like the way punchnama has sort of done it because of said ok let's let's roll up you know fifteen thousand years of human evolution and history into where we are today and what's the predominant thinking that the context of thought the context of the narrative out of which what we've seen is possible right what's the context with the narrative out of which we've seen that makes the crisis that we're impossible what are some of the on exams assumptions that you see operating either in your own life or in the community or in the world exactly that somehow testing results tell us something substantive about and a lot of it by the way a lot of the changes that we're looking to do is in what we choose to measure anybody ever talking about that all day and we are part of that change some of us have bigger roles some of us have spahn our roles but we all have a part to play taking a stand and finding more about what your part is what is your particular role are you already doing what you're really called to do or are you at a shift point where there's a little twist in your own work that you might bring forward or an amplification of what you're already doing that would change it a bit that's partly a way to remind us that although each one of us is already involved and caring we wouldn't be here today that weren't true already you're already doing wonderful work in the world there may be a crossroads either today or next week or a year from now for you where something other is calling you and a friend sent me one paragraph from this book which had to do with collapse and the more she embraces the collapse of all of our systems that we thought worked the more energy was released in her the more energy she residue within you this says well have i really lived out my entire story is there more in me that wants to come forward this is the time to ask you this is the time in history to ask and we're going to give you an opportunity over the next hour to do that and a little bit about the prophecy of the eagle in the contour which has been spinning around for hundreds of years i think and again in many different cultures but the south american indigenous people have been bringing it up to our awareness again and it's the idea that the eagle which our country has identified with and by the ways in my native american friends in montana have laughed at how the dominant culture in america adores the bald eagle which according to many native american tribes is just an yucky old scavenger just a garbage bird and we really should be honoring the golden eagle well what do we know oh it's like ok  but the idea of our culture is that we honor the intellect the eagle representing science and technology and our intelligence and it's been so dominant for so many hundreds of years that it's gotten out of balance and young woman just talked about balance and when we get out of balance with the world around us we do something to give back to bring the balance back while the south american cultures have honored the for a long time and that mythology that accompanies that bird is the wisdom of the heart the intuition spirit so the prophecy idea is that the heart and the mind are finally coming together to fly in one sky and how awesome is that and so the call for us as modern people is what does that psychology look like what does that development look like the human development who are we as mature humans who are we already on the down side the dark side of the current story we look at how we got here we've looked at a new story that's emerging and really what that brings us to right now is what are the possibilities for the future what actually close your eyes for a second i just want to take you back in time right there the very beginning and just feel the energy in your body and know that some party you was there at the birth of the universe the molecules the atoms that make up your body your hands your feet your face your teeth your hair the chair you're sitting on some part of that material in some form was present at the beginning of time and it went through that entire evolution until four point seven billion years ago clumps of material formed our planet earth you were there parts of you were there when earth was nothing but fire parts of you were there when asteroids and meteors hit this planet and we were covered with water parts of you and me were there when the first fish and other sea mammal started to come on to shore we have been here throughout the entire evolution some part of us knows this some part of us can feel the kinship with everything that that we bring that forward to today and we see the magnificence of creation all the different separate things all the different people all the buildings all the roads all the forests all the animals all the birds and it's wonderful and wondrous in its diversity and but we're trying to come back today to a consciousness that says it's me your me the sky is me the water is me the earth is me