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is a project design methodology based upon the principles of personal and group empowerment. The participatory planning that is integral to Dragon Dreaming draws on the wisdom of highly diverse sets of people to create and implement collectively intelligent projects that further development towards sustainability and resilience.
Given the problems of climate change, peak oil, biodiversity loss, economic meltdown, and polarization of wealth between rich and poor within and between communities, we cannot depend upon governments and business organizations to find and implement solutions. We need to work bottom-up and top-down simultaneously: mobilizing the community to work on activities of sustainable development is essential for our future - governments require the support (and pressure) of responsible citizens, and green business needs a market of conscious consumers to implement positive change. Delivering this outcome is the power and the promise of Dragon Dreaming.
Drawing upon the insights and experience of Living Systems Theory, Deep Ecology, Transpersonal Psychology, group dynamics, and organizational development, Dragon Dreaming uncovers the blockages that limit the effectiveness of groups of people who may be working together to achieve a common task. Each kind of blockage produces specific symptoms which may be personal, theoretical, environmental or practical, and when they are discovered, can through awareness, lateral creative thinking, and acquisition of appropriate skills be overcome.
Dragon Dreaming is now being applied throughout Australia, in the USA, in Nigeria and Ghana, in Turkey and Sri-Lanka and  throughout Western Europe, at community level, within government organizations, in businesses and with training organizations and universities. Using Object Relations Theory, it demonstrates that it is in the separation of the subjective from the objective worlds (I and the World), and of the lack of effective communication between theory and practice that we make assumptions about who we are and what the world is like, that are self-limiting. By confronting these limitations our intentions are translated into larger possibilities. We start working within more healthy relationships and more awareness of the context, leading to new degrees of commitment and satisfaction. Being open to and drawing conclusions from appropriate feedback ensures that our goals are reached and the work is done.
Bringing groups of people together around a shared intention is a very powerful tool. Dragon Dreaming uses participatory strategic planning methods pioneered through working with Australian Aboriginal groups to create a Critical Path Diagram (also called a Game Board or Karabyrrdt in Aborigine language) which powerfully clarifies and strengthens the setting of goals and objectives, the development of meeting procedures, the creation of budgets and successful fundraising, delegation of tasks and activities, and the celebration of achievement. The result is a growing number of effectively running, community-based projects for a holistic sustainable development.
Downloads:
The following files may be opened in OpenOffice
Introduction to Dragon Dreaming Part 1.ppt
Introduction to Dragon Dreaming Part 2.ppt
Introduction to Dragon Dreaming Part 3.ppt
Fact Sheet IntroThe Stages of an Outrageously Successful Project.doc
Fact Sheet Number 1 Seaflow Meetings.doc
Fact Sheet Number 2 Transition Town Totnes.doc
Fact Sheet Number 3 Networks and Networking.doc
Fact Sheet Number 4 The Power of Consent.doc
Fact Sheet Number 5 Demystifying Leadership.doc
Fact Sheet Number 6 Revised Community Enterprise.doc
Fact Sheet Number 7 Self Organised Conference Design.doc
Fact Sheet Number 8 Empowered Fundraising.doc
Fact Sheet Number 9 What is the Great Turning.doc
Fact Sheet Number 10 Force Field Analysis.doc
Fact Sheet Number 11 The nature of a Gaia Project.doc
Fact Sheet Number 12 Dragon Dreaming and the Mystery of the Meaning of Life.doc
Fact Sheet Number 13 The History of Dragon Dreaming - the Beginnings.doc
Fact Sheet Number 14 The Sustainable Aboriginal Spirituality of the Song Lines.doc
Fact Sheet Number 15 Twenty One Theses of the Dragon Dreaming Approach for opening the Gaian heart.doc
Fact Sheet Number 16 Building an Empty Centred Organisation.doc
Fact Sheet Number 17 The nature of a Gaia Project.doc
Fact Sheet Number 18 Spiritual Implications of The Great Turning.doc
Fact Sheet Number 19 Cultural Creatives.doc
Fact Sheet Number 20 Gaia Science as a Source of Planetary Ethics.doc
Fact Sheet Number 21 Thoughts about current action in the age of peak oil and climate change.doc
Fact Sheet Number 22 Who or What is Gaia.doc
Workshops October/November 2009, Sieben Linden
All of these files can be downloaded in a single ZIP-File here.
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