Transforming the Dreamer
Retreat Workshop with Terry Tillman and Brian O’Leary
Where: Montesueños Eco-Retreat in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, and the Amazon jungle near Zamora
When: Friday, March 19, at 8 pm through Tuesday, March 23, at 2 pm
Deepen your intention, commitment and effectiveness as an agent of positive change.
Many of us want to create a peaceful, sustainable and just world. Echoing the rhetoric of U.S. President Obama, we yearn for positive social change. Yet that’s clearly not happening; instead the most powerful among us continue to shore up their interests through unsustainable and polarizing agendas. If you have a passionate inner drive to change the world—and your inner experience in it— in a truly positive way, this workshop is for you.
Special guest presenter/facilitator Terry Tillman will join Brian O’Leary of Montesueños on the facilitating team. ”Terry,” says Brian, “was my first mentor in my own transformational journey which began about thirty years ago, a journey that continues right up to today. Terry’s a master of experiential education, having taught inspirational workshops to over 150,000 participants in 92 countries around the world. My contribution is in understanding and implementing the solutions themselves, such as free energy, global healing and consciousness.”
The Tillman-O’Leary duo will provide participants with some practical tools to transform themselves and society by tapping into their inner wisdom and identifying achievable goals that are needed in today’s world. Participants will experience the Pachamama Alliance’s internationally acclaimed Awakening the Dreamer Symposium www.awakeningthedreamer.org, which is interactive and based upon media produced by multi-award winning filmmaker Neal Rogin www.awakeninguniverse.com/about_neal.html. The Symposium will be nested within what will be a life-changing four days.
The workshop will be based at Montesueños (Mountain Dreams) www.montesuenos.org, an ideal environment for individual and collective change. The creation of Montesueños itself has been magical, and seems to rub off on those experiencing this exotic, tranquil setting in the misty Andes.
Montesueños is located in the country of Ecuador, which has emerged as an exciting experiment in progressive change—where 40% of the population is of indigenous extraction inhabiting the Andean plateau and one of the most biodiverse rainforests on Earth, and where an unprecedented provision in the new constitution provides for equal rights for indigenous peoples and for the flora and fauna in nature. The government of Ecuador also supports innovative solutions to the worldwide financial crisis, such as experimenting with alternative trading currencies. The challenges and opportunities for positive change in Ecuador will be highlighted during the workshop as an example of the need for a radically new paradigm if we are to have a truly sustainable future. Transcending old belief systems, we will go outside the box of consensus reality for solutions, confronting truths that, although sometimes controversial, can be liberating. You are invited to experience the power of combining positive human intention in order to heal ourselves and our precious planet.
This workshop is an unprecedented opportunity to experience an expanded awareness while being immersed in two of the most exotic and pure environments on Earth—the spectacular rainbows and sunsets around Montesueños, leading to the cloud forests and waterfalls on the way to the Amazon rainforest.
Brian and Terry describe the vision for the workshop in the video below.
A detailed workshop schedule will be posted soon.
The climate you'll experience at Montesueños will be comfortable with possible rain in the afternoon or evening and green misty mountains and sunshine in the morning. No vaccinations or visas needed.
Airfares to Ecuador at this time are extremely low. When you register we will send you logistical information about how to book your flight.
Tuition: $1750 includes the workshop, transportation to and from the airport, meals, and double or twin accommodations. For singles there will be a surcharge of $150, and for triples or quads a reduction in cost of $150.
Registration: You can reserve a place in the workshop or obtain more information by writing us at info@montesuenos.org.
Terry Tillman has led personal growth, effectiveness, motivation and leadership seminars for over 150,000 people since 1977. His work has taken him to 92 countries. His simple uncompromising philosophy of the limitless abundance available in life, and his quest to experience purpose, loving and peace have led him into a variety of environments. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in Economics, he founded a real estate development, construction and sales company. He holds a private pilot's license, has been a white water rafting guide, a ski instructor, and a marathon runner. Terry now travels six to ten months each year, conducting leadership seminars.
Brian O’Leary, Ph.D. is a scientist-philosopher with fifty years of experience in academic research, teaching and government service in frontier science and energy policy. He was a NASA scientist-astronaut during the Apollo program, the first to be selected for a planned Mars mission, and he participated in unmanned planetary missions as an Ivy League professor. Over the past four decades, Brian has been an international author, speaker, peace activist, founder of non-profits, and advisor to progressive U.S. Congress members and presidential candidates. His latest book, The Energy Solution Revolution, describes the enormous potential of breakthrough clean energy technologies, their suppression and their logical necessity for our survival. In 2004, Brian and his wife, the artist Meredith Miller, moved to the Andes in Ecuador, where they co-created Montesueños —an eco-retreat and educational center dedicated to creativity and the rights of nature.
More events for 2010 will be posted in the very near future. Keep checking. We also are interested in proposals you might have on retreat themes, teachers, timings, or interest in residencies on the subjects of peace, sustainability, justice, the arts, new science, consciousness research, yoga, etc.
My new blog describes the burning issues we will be addressing in our conferences and workshops during 2010: the free energy conundrum, the imperiled Western Amazon region, ending the imperial stalemate, the deep ecology of the collective mind and of nature, and awakening the creative spirit within. In each area, we will be addressing not only the "what is" questions, but also the "how to" questions, to translate our crises into creative opportunities.
If you have any suggestions, questions, or would like to know more about the upcoming events at Montesueños then please contact us at info@montesuenos.org.