Dreamtime Festival

Organization

The Dreamtime organization at the epicenter of this amazing community is an event production organization that includes a 501(c) (3) non-profit educational organization that supports that arts and an LLC production group. Dreamtime is an organization that builds community - please visit the staff page to learn about the Dream Team. This incredibly resourceful, loving and amazing group of individuals is able to produce the annual festival (a monumental feat that requires 12 months of planning, a very effective team and tens of thousands of dollars) with grace and ease, all in service from the heart to the world and the Dreamtime community.

Dreamtime Mission Statement:

Dreamtime inspires, connects and empowers people to co-create positive change in the world through a dynamic and inclusive blend of arts, education, and celebration.

Inspire: to energize people to think and act on what they envision for their lives and the world.
Connect: to create a network of like-minded and supportive people around the world.
Empower: to give the tools, knowledge and support so that people may act on what they envision for their lives and the world.
Co-Create: working together to blend one another's visions into a combined creation.
Positive Change: change that honors life in all forms and feels right in your soul.
Dynamic and Inclusive Blend: welcoming and integrating a wide range of ideas, medias and expression.
Arts: visual, performing, expressive, healing, etc.
Education: learning on all levels: self-directed, experiential and facilitated.
Celebration: honoring and feeling gratitude for yourself and all life (and having lots of fun).

Dream The Future Manifesto

The organization is committed to envisioning new possibilities and acting on them.

We are a team that supports each other in dreaming without limits or conditions.

We cooperate and communicate so that our visions can find common ground.

We share the work and responsibility of manifesting our collective vision.

We transform ourselves so that the world around us may transform.

We participate rather than observe.

We create and maintain positive relationships on multiple levels:

Personal: relations with self, feelings, body, mind, spirit, ancestors
Interpersonal: relations with partners, lovers, family, friends, housemates, co- workers
Social/Political: relations with community, society, culture, and government
Surroundings/Ecological: relations with home, office, nature, environment, Planet Earth

We support the arts in all media including both Individual projects and Community projects.

We live in celebration through music, song, dance, arts and ceremony.

We are committed to learning and education on many levels:

Self-directed: By finding inspiration to follow our dreams, passions, and visions.
Experiential: Seeing life and everything we do as an opportunity.
Facilitated: Developing and offering classes and workshops to share our knowledge, experience, skills and wisdom with one another.

We structure our business so that it may operate and succeed in the marketplace, while maintaining the integrity of our vision, mission, and values.

Together we co-create the annual Dreamtime Festival, a space for magic, communication, manifestation and transformation to occur. We focus on education, sustainability, healing, personal development, and social change. Our unique fusion of art, celebration, and music provides opportunities for participation and creates powerful learning experiences for all participants.

We are dreaming the future. join us!

The Vision

Our vision is to launch an international network of enormously successful and effective ecovillage based education, health/healing, transformation and social change centers, building self actualizing communities and events around the world that embody and promote our values.

We envision "walking our talk" and manifesting it as our congruence and integrity. We envision a collaborative and cooperative style since we can do so much more together than individually. We envision setting and living by the higher frames of abundance leading to win/win relationships and mutual accountability. We consider this to be a living and working document, evolving as we optimize and further grow and clarify our vision and values.

Our Core Values

Dreamtime strives to be values-centered. This means that we operate with clear intention of acting according to our highest ideals and principles.

Our values are—by design—the foundation of actions and decisions that are made within our organization. We believe the more we focus on putting our core values into action, the more we will be able to create exponential growth towards our desired goals and outcomes.

Apply to self, Congruency
We value "walking our talk" and to the greatest degree possible, do exactly what we said we would.

We believe that “walking our talk” is the most essential quality to cultivate in acting as leaders in our community. We conduct all our interactions with the intention of acting on all of our commitments, which includes running our organization in accordance with our core guiding principles regarding ethical conduct, social responsibility, sustainability, and nurturing human potential to the best of our ability.

In addition, we support each individual who works with or does organization with us in achieving the state of completeness by being in integrity with his or her own values as well. If situations arise where an individual's values may be in conflict with those of the organization, we will support the individual in following their heart. To walk the talk, reflect on our own development, and lead by going first in self-application. Our standard is to be congruent and personally aligned, to increasingly develop our state management skills and practice, to always be learning and improving. The counter values are incongruence, lack of state management, hypocrisy, mere image management.

Benchmarks:
1. Monitor behaviors and trainings for congruency.
2. Attend courses regularly to continue our own education and training.
3. Let others evaluate and benchmark our work and skills with an attitude of openness to correction.
4. Resiliently handle upsets and challenges by separating person and behavior.
Collaborative Cooperation
To get along with each other, to "play well together," to be good team members, to contribute and support each other, to create and develop long term win-win relationships. To respect each other, to recognize the innate value and dignity of others, to accept them and distinguish between person and behavior, to support the person while speaking to the needs of the behavior. The counter values are competition, gossip, backbiting, judgments of person, tri-angling.

Benchmarks:
1. Acknowledge the contributions of others.
2. Give credit for materials, patterns, processes, systems and models.
3. Acknowledge the value of others even when we disagree.
4. Frequently collaborate, co-create, co_lead, co_train, and co_lead with others.
5. Give account of what and how we conduct ourselves as leaders.
6. Recognize the vital role that I play for the success of the larger vision.
7. Respond with care and compassion.
8. Welcome differences and looking for ways of cooperating.
9. Pace as we respond to people.
Peak Performances
To take effective action on what we know, to receive feedback and refine our skills so that we become productive and efficient in our performances. We value continuous growth and learning founded on a commitment to self-awareness.

We are dedicated to to continually learning from our friends, family, colleagues, community, the world around us — and the collected knowledge and wisdom of our diverse cultures. We believe that in being open and receptive to gathering knowledge and wisdom from every experience we encounter along our journey, we will be better able to share our unique gifts and talents with the world.

We believe that personal growth and life long learning starts with first looking inward and having awareness of how our thoughts, words, and actions impact our own life and the lives of those around us. By first looking inward, we are better able to accept responsibility for our actions and results. This acceptance, in and of itself, is a powerful catalyst for growth.

The counter values are "talk, talk, talk," lack of productive action, discouraging feedback and change, procrastination, ineffectiveness.

Benchmarks:
1. Check quality of our actions and speech for effectiveness and productivity.
2. Recognize the importance of the keeping our credibility, honor, and legacy.
3. Create products, patterns, books, trainings that add massive value.
4. Demonstrate quality product knowledge, development, and service.
5. Continually refine current products and innovate new ones.
Abundance
To create richness, wealth, and to lead by going first and showing the way, to give back to others, to contribute, to live knowing that we can do so much more together than alone. The counter values are scarcity, competition, and pettiness.
Benchmarks:
1. Refer people to our friends, partners and colleagues.
2. Pay affiliates.
3. Surprise participants and clients by giving more than what's expected.
4. Live congruently in a spirit of open generosity.
5. To be resourceful
6. To be clear in what we are manifesting, in our focus on it and our commitment to creating it.
Responsibility, Ethics and Integrity
To assume personal responsibility for our primary powers (thought and emotion, speech and behavior), to eliminate excuses and rationalizations when we have made a mistake, to take initiative, to be proactive, to recognize our responsibility for our actions and our contributions in relation to others. The counter values are blaming, judging, rationalizing, justifying, etc.

Benchmarks:
1. Adhering to high ethical principals and professional standards to demonstrate emotional intelligence and integrity.
2. Holding ourselves, our employees, our community, and participants to those those same high ethical standards.
3. Quickly acknowledges problems, information, hurts, and problems and takes action to address such.
4. Quickly accept fallibility and errors in personal and organization relationships to make amends.
Creating and offering high value to the world, quality of customer service and products
To create the best and most valuable experiences, trainings, events, communities, products, and customer service. People come first, second products. The counter values are poor attention to detail, to quality, sloppy productions.

Benchmarks:
1. Devoting time and energy to taking care of customers and clients.
2. Asking questions about how to improve the quality of trainings, materials, etc.
3. Exploring feedback to discover how to use it to improve things.
4. Asking for feedback for improvement.
Direct and forthright communication.
To communicate directly and forthrightly that gets to the heart of things. To take responsibility for our communication and for ensuring the clarity of our communication. The The counter values are tri-angling, gossip, assuming, indirect or un-clear communication.

Benchmarks:
1. To ask others to repeat or reflect back to us our communication so that we can ensure the clarity and meaning of our communication.
2. To solicit feedback from others to help us improve the clarity and effectiveness of our communication.
3. Honorably confront those who violate trust or the Vision to win them back.
4. Communicate with care to hold each other accountable.
5. Speaking directly with those we have issues with, no tri-angling with others.
6. To always ask questions first, seek to understand, and only then make evaluations.
7. To avoid assumptions
Living and working with energy and passion through demonstrating enthusiasm and frequent celebration
At Dreamtime we believe that passion is the spark that ignites our creative power, guides us to our natural talents and shows us where we are best suited to make our contribution in the world. We actively support everyone with whom we interact to discover and pursue their passion, as it is the key to discovering how they are best able to contribute to the world.

In addition, we encourage regular celebration of successes small and large to nurture enthusiasm and gratitude for tasks that might otherwise seem insignificant. It is the sum of small victories had on a daily basis that leads to true success. In choosing to celebrate and be passionate on a daily basis we are accepting full responsibility for our power to create a positive, fulfilling, and high-energy workplace.
Focus
We value present-centered awareness and focusing on highest leverage actions and outcomes as the key to achieving success and fulfillment at work.

At Dreamtime we believe that focus is critical to success. There are two key methods we use to facilitate focus:

Daily practice of mindfulness plays a key role in maintaining focus, increasing and managing our vital energy and accessing passion and creativity. Mindfulness is about staying focused on the present moment which supports us in giving 100% to everything we do, and taking action in spite of our moods.

Focus is also supported by asking the questions: "Is this the highest valued contribution I can make, right now?", "Is this the highest and best use of my time?"
Commitment
We value making and keeping commitments to ourselves and others as key to personal and professional success.

At Dreamtime we believe that commitment is also an essential ingredient to personal and professional success. Commitment is about being willing to do everything necessary to reach an outcome that is in alignment with our purpose. Being committed means being willing to act in spite of fear. It means being willing to do what is hard. It means knowing that each of us alone can choose to succeed in spite of any barriers that may be put in our way. Being committed means that we—in the words of Winston Churchill—never give up.

We want to support our team in cultivating this kind of commitment so they experience themselves as the kind of people for whom their word is the truth. That whatever they say is so will become so, and that or whatever they commit to is as good as done.

Work is an opportunity to challenge ourselves to succeed irrespective of the circumstances, and build our confidence that our word is law in the universe.
Systems Thinking
At Dreamtime we believe that systems and systems thinking are critical to the success and sustainability of any organization.

What's more, the purpose of an organization, and of our work, is to serve our lives, our communities and the world, not for our lives to serve our organization or our work. System thinking helps us to contribute to the growth and sustainability of the organization by ensuring that it is not dependent on any one person for its success. At the same time, systems thinking can contribute greatly to the fulfillment we experience by allowing us to get consistent, predictable results, thus freeing up more time for you to be creative and innovative in other areas. Until systems have been developed and are being used, chaos often reigns supreme, keeping us in a constant state of stress and crisis. We are collectively committed to learning, optimizing and growing the skill of systems thinking.
Sustainability
Sustainable Dreamtime, Sustainable World

As a community, Dreamtime believes that ensuring the sustainability of a organization is of the utmost importance. And for a organization to be sustainable, it must produce consistent, improving, predictable results, over an extended period of time.

We also believe that for a organization to be truly sustainable, it's livelihood and growth must also support the long term sustainability of both it's people, the community and the planet. Further, we feel that sustainability is one of utmost timeliness and importance to model, share, empower and inspire in others. We believe that we have a responsibility to make and model decisions and inspire and empower other to do the same in a manner that support the health of the planets ecosystems, quality of life for all humans and other species and for future generations.
Servant Leadership
At Dreamtime we believe that each of us individually and our community collectively has the power and the responsibility to become a leader. We believe the greatest leaders are those who are consistently taking action to serve others. Rather than hoarding knowledge and power, the great leaders strive to give it away to others. Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Jesus and Buddha are all examples of Servant Leadership in action.

Great Leaders
- Have a vision connected to a worthwhile cause that gives their lives purpose.
- Communicate their vision in a way that attracts other people to the cause and inspires purpose in their lives as well.
- Accept responsibility for their actions, the actions of their participants, community or followers, and for achieving goals that will support their vision.
- Are humble and are continually striving for greater self-awareness, self-reliance and integrity.
- Excel at enabling others to follow their calling and use their special gifts in service of the cause.
- Put into action the quote by Mother Theresa that “There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love.”
- >Build on their strengths and the strengths of others rather than on their weaknesses.
- Inspire others through helping them to meet their needs, discover their gifts, give birth to their dreams, and reveal their brilliance to the world. As in the Marianne Williamson quote (often attributed to Nelson Mandela) “it is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us…and in letting our own light shine we give permission for others to do the same.” A true leader helps others to release their fear of their own brilliance and let the light of their gifts shine through to act as a beacon to others.
- Have the courage to tell the truth and speak up for what they believe in.
- Are authentic – their actions and their words are congruent.
- Make choices based on love rather than on fear.
“Everyone can be great because everyone can serve.” Martin Luther King