Weekend of March 19-21, 2010

You Can Make a Difference: Strategies for Social Change

 This workshop has been CANCELLED

What are you called to do, and what are you called to do now? This workshop is an exercise in the practice of social entrepreneurship and organizing for social change. Teachers, clinicians, peacemakers, parents, journalists, administrators, clinicians, storytellers, public officials, clergy, activists, musicians, artists, and all citizens who care deeply and are committed to act, are welcome.

We engage in individual and group exercises based on yoga and other insight traditions as we work through your ideas for social change in the areas you care about most. However big or small, global or local, you are welcome to bring your ideas, spreadsheets, curricula, musical scores, your organization’s management dilemmas, your dreams or wildest fantasies, and your business plans. Bring your humor, sense of the absurd and yes, your frustrations too.

This work is inspired by the innovative approach of Marshall Ganz, author of Why David Sometimes Wins and on Tamar Miller's initiative, The PeaceBeat. We will use our personal stories to inspire us and our collective assets to guide us toward action, turning what may seem like meager resources into power for change. We will help one another create the next steps of our visions and our operations. Some of you may let go of a project or a campaign and liberate new creative energy for justice and peace. Our goal is to leave Esalen with a way forward and the next set of strategies for social change.

You are welcome to share ideas prior to the workshop. Please contact TamarMiller@comcast.net.

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