In 1995, leaders of the Achuar people — an indigenous nation living in one of the most remote and biodiverse corners of the Ecuadorian Amazon — sent out an unusual call. Facing the advancing edge of oil extraction and cultural erosion, they didn't just ask for help defending their land. They asked their allies to do something more difficult: to go home and change the worldview that was driving the destruction in the first place.
Bill and Lynne Twist answered that call. From that partnership, the Pachamama Alliance was born.
Thirty years on, the work moves on two tracks that are understood as inseparable. In the Amazon, the Alliance stands with Achuar and neighbouring nations to protect the Sacred Headwaters — one of the most biologically and culturally significant regions on Earth — from industrial extraction, keeping oil in the ground and forests intact. And in living rooms, conference halls, and screens across the world, the Alliance runs transformative learning programs — most notably the Awakening the Dreamer symposium — that invite people everywhere to examine the stories we have inherited about progress, growth, and our relationship to the living world, and to ask what a different dream might look like.
The thread running through it all is the conviction that outer crisis and inner worldview are not separate problems. That what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves. And that indigenous wisdom — rooted in millennia of living in reciprocity with the more-than-human world — carries guidance that the modern world urgently needs to hear.
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