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Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream

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Posted by Films For Action on Dec. 8, 2010
7 min - Short Film - 2898 Views

This 7 minute film tells the story of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium and how the Pacha Mama Alliance is writing a new chapter in the history of encounters between the modern world and the indigenous world.

The Symposium is an interactive transformational workshop that inspires participants to play a role in creating a new future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet. The presentation is being offered around the USA, the UK, Europe and elsewhere.

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