WHAT IS DRAGON DREAMING? ©
Dragon Dreaming is a way of making our dreams come true by running outrageously successful and transformative projects. With Dragon Dreaming we will all experience a deepening identification with the Earth, and a renewal of energy to work for our collective healing. As we draw on this deep ecological self, how do we face this crisis of our suicidal civilisation and rediscover how to listen in gratitude to the inner call of life itself? All of us are at the edge of a chasm between who we are and who we might become. How do we build a bridge to unite the two? We need to release the power of our creative vitality. But how is this to happen? How do we maximise our creative potentials on a scale never attempted before? “Dragon Dreaming” shows us a way.
In these workshops we draw upon the long experience of the Australian Gaia Foundation, together with deep understanding of indigenous Australian Aboriginal and other wisdom. Participants will discover a simple, easily applied method of navigating around our nightmares in a way that allows us to create outrageously successful projects that transform our everyday lives and fill them with new meaning.
We start by liberating our creativity through movement, dance, painting and singing together. By opening our sensory and extra-sensory perception, re-inhabiting our body, and feeling our heart, we come to value our intuition. From our entire being we can then hear the Dream of the Earth itself calling us forth to explore the strength and ingenuity that it wants to flow through us.
People don’t plan to fail they only fail in their planning. To develop the understanding of who we really are in the web of life. “Dragon Dreaming” shows how holistic living systems-theory can be applied to any project we wish to undertake. But daily experience teaches us that 90% of our plans fail to work as we intended. How then do we make our dreams come true? How do we avoid the nightmares? Our experiential exercises and meditation practice help us to cultivate a place of refuge in difficult moments of our life, so that we can act effectively out of a clear mind, a fresh spirit and a peaceful heart.
Where our fear resides, there hides the Dragon, the true source of our power. We cannot slay the Dragon but we can face it without flinching, harnessing its energy to our great purposes. Going forth to re-engage in and with a dysfunctional world takes great strength. We cannot do it without acknowledgment and celebration of who we really are, and the tasks and purposes of our own unique life. How do we build celebration into all aspects of living? Only then do our lives become truly sustainable, contributing to the great turning from a cancerous society of never-ending growth, to a world that is truly life sustaining.
FOR WHOM ARE THESE WORKSHOPS?
No-one likes being a sleep-walker. All people who are “awake” wish to lead a meaningful life and make a difference are welcome in this work. No matter whether you are involved in your community or environment or not, whether you are already engaged in personal or collective projects, or are only tentatively dreaming about an idea to which you would like to dedicate some of your time and effort, this workshop could be for you, and be just what you are seeking.
In order to maximise its value we limit numbers, so please book early
ALTERNATIVE WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE
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WHAT TO BRING
- Food to share for 2 days
- Journal writing, art and drawing material
- Appropriate outdoor clothing, hat, sun-screen
- Sacred or special item
- Musical instruments (if any)
- Your stories, dreams and visions
THE FACILITATOR
John Croft is co-founder of the Gaia Foundation of Western Australia, an organisation based upon three principle areas of personal growth, building community and service to the Earth.
He has worked in the area community development and education in Australia, English speaking Africa, in Geneva and in Paris, in Indonesia and in Papua NewGuinea. John has taught at a number of Universities and worked as a consultant in community building and environment action practice with non-government organisations. Through his work the Dragon Dreaming method has been introduced from Sri Lanka to Brazil and from Ghana to Finland.
John has run workshops in Re-Earthing, the Work that Reconnects and Social Artistry for the last 20 years, approaches that integrate personal growth and empowerment, community building, community economics and environmental action within the new paradigm of “deep ecology”. Also trained by Joanna Macy, he has written and published widely in many fields.