| Friday, Aug 6, 2010 1:00PM - 5:00PM at Le Centre Sheraton in Salon 6 Our world is at a crossroads where our societal vision, organizational systems, lifestyles, daily personal choices and even our physical survival are being called into question. At this intersection, environmental sustainability, healthy human spirit and social justice meet in powerful interconnection. In this time of flux, management academics and practitioners have extraordinary potential to facilitate the changes our society so badly needs in order to reach our individual and collective potential. This PDW presents a highly sophisticated group experience that is reaching tens of thousands of people around the world, generating enormous hope and inspiration to transform our world in our lifetimes. This workshop is based on the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, a highly experiential, multimedia event that provides an ideal, free resource for Academy members who want to bring passion into the climate change discussion. It is being integrated into academic programs around the world. The program intersperses carefully structured group activities with 80 minutes of exquisitely crafted high impact video to engage participants in exploring four questions: 1) Where are we? - What is the state of our world with respect to the intensely interrelated issues of environmental sustainability, social justice, and healthy human spirit? 2) How did we get here? - What are the mental models we've operated under that led us to get ourselves into this situation? 3) What is possible? - Looking at the enormous social changes of the past two centuries and the unprecedented groundswell of millions of positive initiatives across the globe, what can we imagine is possible for our future? 4) Where do we go from here? - What is each of us called to do to make a difference? - A completely non-prescriptive charge to act in small and large ways, through our individual motives, skills and energy, to change the world for the better. This program is non-religious, non-sectarian, and apolitical. Refined continuously over the past six years by volunteer facilitators on five continents, it continues to be upgraded, particularly for audiences outside the U.S. This symposium is enormously successful at generating optimism and commitment to the possibilities for a green and just future. (For a brief video preview of the program, see http://awakeningthedreamer.org/content/view/115/135/) For additional information, please contact the program coordinator, Kit Tennis, at Kit@SanchezTennisAssociates.com , +1-303-449-5921. Submission: 10930 | Sponsor(s): (ODC, MSR)
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