Description of Challenge
Running successful projects for ecologically sustainable economic development.
Solution
THE SHORTEST DEFINITION
Dragon Dreaming – is love in action
THE ONE LINE DEFINITION
Dragon Dreaming – a way of making 100% of your dreams come true.
USED IN WORKSHOPS
Dragon Dreaming – a living systems approach to building successful organisations and projects for the Great Turning.
CREATED AT A WORKSHOP
Dragon Dreaming – an integral design philosophy that takes sustainability into account in every aspect of our lives.
AN ENHANCED VERSION FROM WORKSHOPS
Dragon Dreaming – a living systems approach, drawing upon insights and inspiration from history, science and Aboriginal cultures and diverse spiritual traditions, that assists in the creation of outrageously successful organisations and projects, for the Great Turning of the world away from a cancerous culture of limitless growth towards a culture that sustains the unfolding of life on Earth.
FOR BUREAUCRATIC ORGANISATIONS
Dragon Dreaming – an approach to consensual participatory strategic planning for projects and organisations in the field of Ecologically Sustainable Community Economic Development. It enables rapid feedback that builds collective wisdom, and fosters adaptive capacity enabling individuals, groups, enterprises, communities, and government bodies to adjust creatively and positively to situations of rapid and potentially chaotic change.
A NEW VERSION FROM THE RIO EARTH SUMMIT 2012
Dragon Dreaming is a world wide, open-source interactive networking phenomenon, which provides technology and philosophy that assists
• activists and other individuals
• informal community projects and groups
• non-government organisations and associations
• government and business enterprises
with advice, information, training and support to organise their actions, activities, events, celebrations, tactics, strategies, objectives, goals, missions, visions, dreams, ethics, ideologies and philosophies of life consistent with the principle goals of
• personal growth – a commitment to the healing and empowerment of all concerned
• community building – a strengthening of the diverse communities involved
• service to the Earth – an enhancement of the wellbeing and flourishing of all life
The definitions above were created by John Croft, co-founder of Dragon Dreaming.
Updated on 16th June 2012.
