Power Shift 09 Survey – results mentioning the Symposium Power Shift surveyed their 12000 participants. The last questions was open ended. Below are the ones mentioning the Symposium out of the many they received.
Powershift '09 has completely changed my life. It was incredible to attend, and meet and connect with so many passion youth across the country. I have returned hopeful and motivated to make even more change in my community. I also want to say how amazing the Awakening the Dreamer symposium was- that may have had the biggest impact on me, among all the sessions I attended at Powershift. Thank you so much for putting together such a life-changing and amazing conference!
Awakening the Dreamer was simply awesome-- need more sessions like that
Awakening the Dreamer was EXCELLENT. I think it should've been advertised more so that more students could've experienced it. It really made the weekend for me, and I will always remember that inspirational program.
Awakening the dreamer was a great workshop and should be continually offered.
Please expand the Awakening the Dreamer symposium next year to be available to more people- it was the most rewarding part of the conference for me and I think it should be offered to more of the people at the conference. Powershift was AMAZING though, it was worth all the driving, confusion, hungry moments, and forgotten homework that it took to get me there. THANK YOU!!!
I feel Awakening of the Dreamer was the most life altering experience I've been a part of in a long time, and because of such class I really ended up enjoying myself.
The Awakening the Dreamer was the best part of the weekend. Everyone should do it.
Awakening the Dreamer was amazing, life changing, incredible!!!
thanks for putting this together =) awakening the dreamer was incredible, as was lobby day
You all did wonderful. I especially liked the 'Awakening the Dreamer' symposium : )
The keynotes were absolutely INCREDIBLE. They were perhaps my favorite part of the entire weekend, besides Awakening the Dreamer, which really did awaken me in an entirely new way. Van Jones and Majora Carter in particular were outstanding. Everyone was motivated and although we know there are many, many problems with the way we live and the current state of our planet, we also were surrounded with hope. When I watched these people speak, all I could think was, "This person has 'HOPE' stamped on their forehead." And after they spoke, we all had that on our foreheads. Because we not only knew our problems, but we knew that we had all of these brilliant people behind us to fix them.
I think the awakening the dreamer session was somewhat out of touch with the importance of todays issues - I had several friends leave this potentially powerful workshop because of the stress put on the privilege-tragedy of global extinction and endangerment of cute things. These are important, but there are much more resonant ways to look at global justice than co-opting indigenous mythology first and then chasing it with endangered species rhetoric - I really wish a spiritual approach to activist work could be taken seriously by this audience, and I hear the session with the rabbi, buddhist monk, and priest was actually much more moving along these groundlines. Unfortunately, I avoided any talks on spirituality for the rest of the conference because of the bad taste I got from the "awakening the dreamer"s presentation..