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Past Projects
Immediately below you will find a complete listing of past 'core' Dream Change projects, events and their initiators. For a description of the current projects PLEASE LOOK TO THE MAIN MENU IN THE LEFT MARGIN UNDER DREAM CHANGE PROJECTS.
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Andean Forest Reserve
A forest high in the Andes near the border between Ecuador and Columbia - one of the few remaining habitats for the endagered Spectacled Bear - was slated for destruction by an international land development/mining consortium in the early 1990's. DC raised the money and made all the arrangements for purchasing the forest. DC then deeded the forest over to an Ecuadorian conservation organization that manages it as a wildlife reserve.
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Childrens' Programs
DC has been involved with teaching children about the importance of environmental and social interests and sustainability since 1995. Programs initiated by members include the World Dream Institute which later inspired the non-profit organization 'Eco-Ethics Institute' spearheaded by Sam Mason-Merrill and Gail Danto, Dreaming with Children, "In the Rainforest" - a play by third graders directed by Michelle Gandy, school Trash-a-Thons to raise money for indigenous communities run by Tara Nieves, the Shuar Kindergarten Project overseen by Patricia Arcos and Mary Tendall, and the Gathering of Wisdom Keepers Student Program (overseen by Stacey Gibbon and Sam Mason-Merrill) offering teens direct experience with indigenous teachers and ancient wisdom at annual events. Student coordinators for this program were Sayre Herrick and Max Weikel.
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Dream Change Buries Tibetan Buddhist Peace Vases
In the spring of 1999 a Tibetan Buddhist Peace Vase was buried deep in the Amazon rainforest on a DC trip to Ecuador. Another vase was buried on the grounds of a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Kyzyl, Tuva, on a trip with Llyn Roberts and Bill Pfeiffer, and a third delivered by them to indigenous Siberian Shor people via Alexander Arbachakov was later buried by shamans in the Shor Mt. region. Initiated by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, hundreds of such vases have been placed around the globe - they contain consecrated items which emanate blessings to the enivronment, avert negative occurrences, and balance natural energies.
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Dream Change Hosts Russian Conservationists
During a visit arranged by the Sacred Earth Network in 2001 five leading conservationsists from the former Soviet Union met with Dream Change representatives to share about culture and environment. The meeting was hosted by Llyn Roberts and Bill Pfeiffer and resulted in exchanges with DC representatives and indigenous Shor, Hakass, and Tuvan peoples and collaboration on projects that support Siberian culture and environment.
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Dream Change Magazine
For six years beginning in 1998 the Dream Change Magazine was published to inspire and network the Dream Change community; as an educational tool to encourage sustainable living and shifts of consciousness; to support its work and projects with indigenous peoples. The DC Magazine was initiated by Christine Collins and Bob Southard in 1998, from 1999 to 2004 it was produced by Llyn Roberts and Bob Southard, then by Mary Warejcka. The magazine was distributed nation-wide and an on-line magazine was incepted in 2003.
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Dream Change Website
Since 1997 when Eve Bruce incepted Dream Change's first website, dreamchange.org has kept community members abreast of indigenous and environmental projects, dream-changing news, and has educated the general public about consciousness-shifting and ancient indigenous values. In 1998 TIME magazine cited Dream Change as one of thirteen websites in the world who most reflect the values of Earth-Day. The current website format was created in 2002 (designed/formatted by Steve Howland - content, Llyn Roberts) and since 2006 has been maintained in collaboration with web professional Moira Ashleigh.
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Gathering of Shamans and Wisdom Keepers
From 1999 through 2003, DC organized, managed, and facilitated a series of gatherings that brought shamans and indigenous teachers from cultures around the world to New York, California, Colorado and Michigan. Hundreds of people attended these events which were open to the public and included teachings, community gatherings, ceremonies, and shamanic healing sessions. Eve Bruce initiated and directed Dream Change's first Gatherings and Llyn Roberts directed them from 2001-2003. Its logistical coordinators included Bob Southard, Dolores Mannix and Sam Mason Merrill. Cultural groups represented at Gatherings have included: Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andean, Ecuadorian Amazonian, Maya of Guatemala, Native North American peoples from several tribes, Native North American Hopi representatives, Eskimo, Siberian and Mongolian elders. The annual event inspired the inception of numerous independent gatherings across the country and in Europe.
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Global Awareness and Change Club
Global Awareness and Change was a club founded by Joel Bray and Tyler Thompson at Olympia High School in Olympia, WA, and at University Prep in Seattle, WA, respectively. The club was inspired by the work of both John Perkins and Al Gore, each who presented the necessity to take action to prevent global catastrophe. The club held that for a solution to be found, it is necessary to gather the help and active support of everyone in our communities. GAC educated students about the problems we face, and encouraged them to take action in their own lives.
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POLE Project
The POLE (Pollution Offset Lease for the Earth)Project emerged in the late 90's from meetings with John Perkins and the Shuar community of the Amazon as a means to:
*educate people and shift global consciousness
*promote the preservation of the Shuar rainforest land
*provide financial support for the Shuar who have
little access to the "outside world" cannot subsist solely
on rainforest lands, and are dependent on outside
sources until they develop sustainable industry
*conserve oxygen-producing rainforest land that will offset the
pollution created by modern environments
*support the Shuar in their desire to avoid selling ancestral
lands to oil interests or clearing trees for cattle raising
POLE is now integrated into the larger Shuar Sustainability Project directed by Ed Mayer.
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Quechua Sacred 'Pachacuti' CD
When Quechua elders from Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru decided that it was time to share their most sacred Pachacuti ('Time to Set Things Right') music with the world - music that had remained "secret" within the Andes for many centuries - they turned to DC for assistance. DC produced the CD for the elders under the direction of Wendy Core, and Dream Change distributed them. In May 2009, Dream Change supporter, Emily Dahmen, made it possible for the Pachacuti CD to be distributed via ITunes.
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Rainforest Seed Jewelry
DC partnered with the Shuar of the Amazon to design and market jewelry made by the tribe's women using sustainable methods that help promote environmental stewardship and awareness. Mary Tendall initiated and managed the project for Dream Change, helped by Joyce Kendall.
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Re-Dreaming the World with the Dalai Lama
During a DC trip to Ladakh and India featuring John Perkins and organized by Dream Change supporter, Sheena Singh - 33 members flew across the Himalayas in a plane with the Dalai Lama and then met with him at his home in Dharmsala. He shared Tibetan teachings and practices, asked the DC members to tell him about indigenous people in the Amazon and Andes, and encouraged DC to continue its re-dreaming the world work.
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Sacred Springs Preservation
When a spring sacred to the Incan community of Quilajalo, high in the Ecuadorian Andes (and the community's only direct source of water), was threatened by land developers in 1996, DC trip facilitator, Christine Parini, raised the funds necessary to purchase the spring and surrounding forest and donated the money to the community. The people of Quilajalo bought the threatened area and also set up programs for teaching other communities about the importance of environmental stewardship.
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Shapeshifting the Corporation
Spearheaded and designed by John Perkins, DC taught programs to help corporations shapeshift themselves into more aware and sustainable organizations for over a decade. Executives from many corporations have participated, including ones from Hewlett Packard, Nike, Exxon, Harley Davidson, General Electric, Los Alamos Laboratories Interface, The Natural Step, several branches of the U.S. Government, and the World Bank.
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Siberian Book Project
 The Shor Mountain peoples of Siberia number about 10,000 and during the 20th century have been decimated by repression, alcohol and suicide. Many of the Shor shamans are now in their 70's and 80's, their grandparents being the renowned drumming shamans persecuted during the Soviet occupation - shot in the back or rounded up and burned alive. The Shor shamanic legacy might not be remembered if not for a project such as this.
Alexander and Luba Arbachakov compiled a book - The Shamans of Gornaya Shoraya - depicting ethnographic sketches of the some of these remaining Shor and recorded their shamanic verses. The book also includes photographs of the Shor and their symbols. Directed by Llyn Roberts, Dream Change raised the money needed for the Arbachakov's to publish the book in Russian as a research publication by the publishing house Kuznetskaya Krepost, in Novokuznetsk in 2004.
See current Dream Change Programs to view the english language US/UK publication - The Last of the Shor Shamans - via O-Books October 31, 2008.
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Shuar CD and Ceremonial Music
At the request of the Shuar of the Amazon, trip facilitator Mary Tendall elicited the help of the DC community to raise funds needed to record Shuar traditional music. Tendall and other DC representatives helped the Shuar community organize itself to recreate ancient ceremonies, brought in a professional recording team, and also produced and disrtibuted the resulting CD. In May of 2009, Dream Change supporter, Emily Dahmen, made it possible for the Anent CD to be distributed via ITunes.
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Shuar Solar Project
 Shuar families of the Ecuadorian Amazon were using foul smelling, smoke producing kerosene bottles for artificial evening light with the advent of "modern" methods of extending light, which extend activities into the evening hours. At the Shuar's request and under the direction of Dream Change representative, Mary Tendall, a healthier and safer alternative to kerosene lamps was sought.
Licensed electrical contractor, Chris Amson, suggested solar off-grid and grid-tied stand-alone solar electrical systems to create sustainable energy sources. Chris traveled to the Shuar with Mary; converting costs were calculated, money raised and charging stations for each community complete with waterproof flashlights and batteries were created. The Shuar constructed pole holders for each solar panel. Charger boxes at each station were made with natural materials and the Shuar were trained to do future solar installations.
The project made it possible for seven Shuar communities to each have three simple fluorescent fixtures, and a set of 60 waterproof flashlights with 160 rechargeable batteries.
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The Chumpi 'Kitiar' Award
 Named after one of the first Shapeshifters to dream 'Dream Change Coalition', the Chumpi Award has been given annually since 2000 to a person who exemplifies the characteristics of this great shaman - ones that Chumpi himself exhibited and encouraged in others. His life was devoted to creating individual and communal dreams that help future generations live harmoniously with all of nature. The recipients of this award embody his spirit and the values he promoted.
CHUMPI 'KITIAR' AWARD RECIPIENTS:
2000 ~ Mary Tendall
2001 ~ Ipupiara
2002 ~ Eve Bruce
2003 ~ John Perkins
2004 ~ Llyn Roberts
2005 ~ Robert Y. Southard
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Trips and Expeditions
 Beginning in the early 1990's, Dream Change has hosted expeditions to: south and central Americas, the Asian steppe and taiga, the Mayalands of Guatemala, Mexico, Africa, Tibet and Nepal. Hundreds of people have learned ancient healing and shapeshifting techniques, embracing earth-honoring teachings from indigenous masters in diverse cultures. The trips empower an intimate experience of the interconnectedness of all things, help to preserve ancient indigenous ways and ancestral lands, and emphasize the necessity of shapeshifting our own cultures and consciousness. Current annual trips are run by Joyce Kendall to the Ecuadorian Andes and Amazon, by Bill Pfeiffer to the Altai region of Siberia. Expeditions to varying destinations are also available with John Perkins and Llyn Roberts.
Dream Change trip facilitators have included:
Eve Bruce (Africa, Ecuador)
Joyce Ferranti (Ecuador)
Joyce Kendall (Ecuador)
Christine Parini (Ecuador)
Bernard Peixoto (Brazil)
John Perkins (Ecuador, Nepal, Tibet)
Bill Pfeiffer (Siberia)
Llyn Roberts (Ecuador, Guatemala, Siberia)
Mary Tendall (Ecuador, Mexico)
Cleicha Toscano (Brazil)
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Created on 01/13/2005 12:55 PM by dream
Updated on 06/03/2009 12:45 PM by tharpa
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