Pachamama Alliance

Just like Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network, Pachamama Alliance is doing great work to help preserve the Amazon Rainforest. In my reading on environmental issues, Patchamama Alliance has the best educational outreach of any organization in the environmental movement.

I have taken 3 classes with Pachamama and facilitated one. What I love about this organization is the emphasis on relationship with indigenous people and support of women and children - not as a sideline, but as essential to actually working on addressing climate change. I have made good friends through the classes, and continue to meet with them via Zoom. One of the groups continued as a book group and we have studied some fascinating books and had supportive and useful discussions about them.

The Pachamama Alliance, through their generous transformational community co-creation educational trainings and inspirational offerings, is committed to the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. They are a blessing to the world.

I have been a member of Pachamama Alliance for many years. I first joined them because of the quality of the materials. The content was organized and informative and the pictures were beautiful. I have volunteered with them and taken just about everything they have offered. I have never been disappointed in them. I have met many wonderful people by being involved with them.

The Pachamama Alliance is one of the most relevant groups in these times of transitions. They connect worldwide with individuals and communities to weave together three key aspects of our lives today: environmental sustainability, social justice, and a strong spiritual connection. This is a unique group, and I've continued to grow with their workshops and my ever-expanding global community that the PA provides.

Their workshops and trips are all important ways to grow and contribute as we move through the great turning. Thank you Pacha People!!!

I have been a member of the Pachamama Alliance for close to 20 years. Their work brings together our modern world with the indigenous peoples living in a remaining pristine part of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador and Peru. This work has been transformative, through PA's support and in developing and empowering the skills needed to preserve the natural resources of the Amazon, the indigenous cultures and protect the Amazon from further extraction by the fossil fuel and logging industries. Their vision says it all: creating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet—a New Dream for humanity.
Pachamama has developed and delivered extensive educational programs around the globe to teach people in the "modern world" about indigenous wisdom and their relationship to the natural world -- wisdom and knowledge that can be applied to the crisis we face in the deteriorating environment of our planet.

Since I first heard the mission to “bring forth an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on this planet” I knew that this organization resonated with my values. In the last 6 years I have found the Pachamama Alliance to be a fantastic educational, inspirational and active organization pursuing vital goals for our Pachamama, or “Mother Earth” from the rain forest to the oceans and atmosphere.

Pachamama Alliance is one of the most impactful nonprofits I've ever volunteered for, and donated to, and maybe even the most impactful of them all. I was affected so much by my first experience with them, their free Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, that I learned how to become a Symposium facilitator. I then took it to the next level and attended the Game Changer Intensive (GCI) which I have now moderated several times over the past few years. I think the GCI could be offered as foundational volunteer training for people involved in almost any other nonprofit also working to create an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just future for us all. I also love connecting with people from many different countries that are also drawn to these offerings. I highly recommend this nonprofit to others.

Pachamama Alliance brings a deeper way of knowing in difficult times, calling us to act from different place of greater wisdom and interconnection with all of life. Pachamama Alliance has had a profound impact on my life, and has allowed me to transmit a new vision and a new way of being to hundreds of other people around me.

I experience Pachamama Alliance as the most inspiring organisation I know. Their educational programs have changed my life and provide an empowering framework for constructive action in the face of the many challenges we are facing across the globe.

Pachamama Alliance through the online courses and learning materials, has inspired and changed. As a result this has motivated me to give back to my community by organizing trainings to youths and community groups on climate change awareness education, planting trees in schools and churches.

Pachamama Alliance always support us with great passion, commitment and love to create a better world, even though we are in Japan. For example, they have upgraded their web site accessible to Japanese by adding translating function, responding quickly to our request!

Pachamama Alliance provides invaluable leadership, educational opportunities and perhaps most importantly, networking and community-building for people interested in creating a more environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling world. I have benefitted from their leadership and have become a stronger leader because of them. I have learned much and have met like-minded, visonary people through their network, some I now count among my closest friends.

My participation in their online courses have been nothing short of life changing!

Having also had the privilege of being an intern within the organization, I can attest to the integrity and depth of commitment within the entire staff. They successfully cultivate and support an entire global community whom they inspire into action on behalf of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on the planet.

In whatever way you are considering engaging with nonprofit organizations, Pachamama Alliance is deserving beyond measure of receiving it. They have lifted my view of what is possible for humanity and what a gift that is!

I am very impressed with Pachamama Alliance’s professionalism and inclusiveness of all kinds of people, especially folks who disagree with their mission. I am planning to make a monthly donation.

So much GREAT awareness and eye-opening, I mean heart-opening materials!!! I am so grateful to Pachamama Alliance for their partnership with Drawdown.org and their standard set of courses! Also for the accessible online education opportunities! We are just starting a new organization that is focused on being future-fit and bridging initiatives. Pachamama's online courseware will allow us to quickly educate many people through partnering as opposed to trying to create our own courses. Thank you Pachamama Alliance!!

The Pachamama Alliance has expanded my horizon on issues that matter to me the most. It is an incredible organization with the wisdom and love to empower the human experience.

Pachamama Alliance is a real leader in work to save the rainforest, the planet and its inhabitants. I currently work on a local Drawdown committee, through Pachamama, to reverse global warming. I have also traveled with Pachamama to visit the Achuar Tribe in the Ecuadorian rainforest, which was life changing. The organization is well run and true to its mission.

Every now and then I heard "Pachamama this... Pachamama that..." and everybody around me seemed to know what this was about. I knew it should be something good, since I appreciated the people talking about it. It took me some years to investigate further by myself... and falling in love with Pachamama Alliance was very quick! In one of his newsletters David Spangler quoted the Drawdown project, this was the last impulse I needed.
I went to the website, searched and got immediate contact to real people, many individuals sharing a language of the heart with me. Direct, open, authentic friendly... I started by engaging myself with translations of Drawdown materials. This activity increases my sense of belonging and at the same time I am free to discover so much more... Pachamama Alliance's website its huge, it is like a big birthday present I unpack... and find so much to draw upon!!!! Sometimes I take part at webinars, again a wonderful chance to nurture my care and my love for Life. I do bow to the deep commitment of the team behind all that...
Pachamama has been a word we use now at home, I refer to it and my child knows what I am talking about. The good and blessed energy of all it involves is part of our daily lives in the most gentle and genuine way!

The Pachamama Alliance's stated purpose (to nurture an environmentally sustainable, socially just, spiritually fulfilling human presence on the planet) is inspiring, and their work bears it out. Their educational programs to bring this positive outcome about are outstanding. Their environmental classes based on the book Drawdown are getting people into action to solve the climate crises. I've been facilitating these classes for a year, and they are getting people into effective action and bringing grounded optimism around the globe.

I've thought of myself as a Child of the Universe for over 50 years. With Pachamama Alliance I've been able to meet a lot of other children like me.

Pachamama Alliance is a great place to learn - you can awaken your dreamer, become a game changer, participate in drawdown ... and, and, and.

A lot of roots are planted there and the followers are striking at those roots that are problematic. Terrific organization!

I've been involved for years with the Pachamama Alliance, first as a student in their GameChanger course, and then continuing as a facilitator/moderator for the course several times afterwards. I am continually invigorated with their work, message and progress in this world for it is greatly needed.

I love them! PA does incredible work with folks in the Amazon as well as in the rest of the "Modern" world to get people into action.

great mission and a sustainable approach to change!

The Pachamama Alliance has so inspired me that I have touched thousands of people with their message and their unparalleled programs. I'm speaking around the world, training others to do the same, helping design initiatives, presenting in online programs, leading people deep into the Amazon rainforest and more.

I didn't recognize how much I needed this avenue to contribute to environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual well being on a global and local level until I found TPA. It has changed the trajectory of my life and all of my family, in beautiful and unexpected ways!

I’ve attended training and participated in calls. This group is part of the heart of the world and so necessary. Professional, compassionate, doing good things with humor and love.

Using their excellent material I have been able to play a part in inspiring hundreds of local people in West Africa to understand what we are doing to each other and the planet and to consider what they might do about it

Pachamama is an amazing movement that comes from the South American meaning of mother or from mother earth. It's driven to bring earth into the rights that we give to business.... its time to honor our mother!!

Never have I worked with such empathetic, encouraging, and candid individuals. Every member of this organization emulates the mission created by Bill and Lynne Twist and John Perkins with their indigenous partners. The office buzzes with a hopeful and driven atmosphere--everyone has a role to play and a passion for playing it. Volunteering as an intern and table captain has been invigorating and I am now swept up in the fervor of shifting popular knowledge to understand and respect the worlds most precious natural spaces. THANK YOU PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE!

Pachamama is all about making the voice of the unheard reach the masses; the voice of the planet, of nature, of animals, of indigenous peoples and of all those suffering silently and waiting for people to change their ways so that we all live in harmony.

The Pachamama Alliance is one of the most persistent, organized and thoughtful organizations I have worked with. They not only address the issues that matter to us most as human being with a clear and achievable vision; they also have years of experience and practical tools to assist people and communities around the world to work together. It’s been a privilege volunteering with them.

As an educator I am especially impressed with the resources available through Pachamama.

The impact the Awakening the Dreamer - Changing the Dream had on individuals in our community in the Sea to Sky Corridor of British Columbia, BC was simply profound. People from all walks demonstrated a deep connection with the materials throughout each phase & Swiamish residents touched by the event supported it through a heavy snow fall, a myriad of other conflicting events and many didn't want to leave the event afterwards, staying on to talk for hours about potential next steps. Our experience felt supported yet challenged us to work through the material as partners in the venture, inspiring a rich curiosity around each phase of the material, and we enjoyed the additional time spent Together working out the kinks [now ironed out by this highly accountable organization. Their integrity & forthrightness are a balm to the spirit & we have so much gratitude for our hearts have been blown wide by the material & intention behind it that mived through us all that day. THANK YOU FOR THIS TREASURED EXPERIENCE! We will host it again in the coming year

Pachamama Alliance is, in so many ways, the answer to the question I had long been asking: is there a single non-profit organization that resonates with my values and my Vision that I can align my life with? Last year, I realized that I was a member of numerous organizations that were all doing good work on the whole, but that I was doing little of that work myself. Though each organization had meaning for me, only Pachamama Alliance connected with me in a holistic, affirming, fully empowering way. It took a wake up call (literally) from a friend in Brazil to remind me what a jewel of the Amazon and what a great hope for the World the Pachamama Alliance is. And now I am all-in! I love Pachamama Alliance and the great colorful hope this organization brings to the World!

I first volunteered 45 years ago, and participated in my first political campaign 40 years ago. It wasn't until I connected with Pachamama Alliance two years ago I finally found a social enterprise that offered not just opportunities to serve and to do good, but also education in effective social and political change grounded in best practices from both ancient indigenous and contemporary wisdom teachings; support for building and sustaining local, engaged "pro-activist" community; and training and empowerment for individual volunteers to carry the alliance's message of environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment to others around the world. I tear up thinking how long I've felt alone and isolated in my call to action for peace and justice, and how now with Pachamama Alliance I finally feel at home. This group is one in a million.

We are one with Earth!
Somos uno con la Tierra!

Yes we can.
Si se peude.

Pachamama Alliance has given me hope for our global future. When the world seems to be spinning out of control, I see people who are committed to saving the planet and her inhabitants working intelligently and compassionately. thank you

This is a great nonprofit that gets people to work from where they are to change lives for the better all over the world

Pachamama Alliance is continually providing me with inspiration for my fledgling Nature program for kids.
Living in Zimbabwe there are daily reminders of how disconnected the majority of people are with Mother Earth and what She provides for us free. Unfortunately children tend to copy the example their parents' set. I would like to pass on the reverence for nature I have and which the Pachamama community is reteaching to the World

I think Pachamama is a phenomenal organization. They have created a wonderful training to get people engaged in making a difference. Everyone should go through their Awakening The Dreamer workshop. I've met great people who are highly committed, smart and who take action.

Great people doing great work for the sake of humanity and the planet!

Commitment to serving the protection and salvation of Life from the heart - true intelligence, Right Action. I am thankful.

This is excellent and I meet many passionate people there.

I truly enjoyed my summer interning with The Pachamama Alliance. Not only are the people very passionate about their work, but it creates a motivational setting to encourage others to understand the work that they do. This is an organization that I continue to follow even after I finished my internship!

Interning at The Pachamama Alliance was one of the most rewarding things I have done. The passion and dedication that everyone has at the organization is inspiring.

The Pachamama Alliance is my favorite nonprofit. I identify with there mission to the extent of adopting it as my own personal mission. They do amazing work and produce results that benefit everyone. I feel like they have integrity as an organization.

The Pachamama Alliance is truly one of its kind. The thriving future of the human family and the entire community of Earth will owe a debt of gratitude to the tireless work of this organization. All the people I have ever met who are involved with The Pachamama Alliance carry a unique drive to create a more positive future, and share an embodied presence that inspires the world to join in that profound mission.

Pachamama Alliance is the organization my heart connects with for we all work towards humany's wellbeing. We become change agents who bring a message to awake from our "modern dream" and to transition our lives and earth into a sustainable world.

I first came to know The Pachamama Alliance through an Awakening the Dreamer symposium in San Diego 2 years ago. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be a part of this dynamic and inspirational organization that can truly make a different in our world. Attending that symposium was life-changing for me. I want to inspire others, especially my grandchildren, that we need to take care of each other AND our beautiful planet because -- we are all connected!

They have created a true partnership with the indigenous people with learning and know-how being shared in both directions. The impeccable integrity of the leadership attracts responsible volunteers who teach and learn in deeply mutual exchanges for the benefit of our planet.

Over 1 and a half year ago, I became a faciliator for the be the change. I really love to meet all these beautiful people, who are involved in changing they´re lifes and those of others in a non-violent way. THX

I was privileged to become an Awakening the Dreamer Symposium facilitator. It was an empowering and yes, a life changing experience.

By becoming a volunteer, you are not dedicating your time to the Pachamama Alliance so much as becoming a part of it. The group makes inclusiveness a top priority which makes volunteers, donors, and staff all equally integral to the org's purpose.

Six years ago I attended a Pachamama "Awakening The Dreamer Changing The Dream Symposium", which changed my life. When I heard the question, "Does anyone want to learn to facilitate a Symposium?" I swiftly raised my arm, am now a Facilitator of many Symposia, have visited the Rainforest twice, and joyfully contribute financially on a monthly basis to the Pachamama Alliance. My money is invested in all ways that support, protect and benefit all life on Earth. No exceptions. I give the Pachamama Alliance the highest rating possible.

This organization has inspired me to get more active on the critical issues of environmental sustainability and social justice. They rock!

I would recommend this organization to everyone who would like to make a significant impact! Pachamama Alliance educates, inspires then empowers each person to be a part of their commendable vision, "... a world that works for everyone: a socially just, environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilled human presence on this planet ..." My first experience was in July 2011 at an "Awakening the Dreamer" Symposium. I learned more than I knew and wanted to become more involved. Soon, I will be attending a Facilitator Training. Next, perhaps, an eco-friendly trip to Ecuador. I love to be surrounded by a community of well-meaning, heart-driven, and action-oriented individuals. There is no greater need than our planet and there is no greater time than now! Join the Pachamama Alliance as a participant or volunteer. You will be glad you did!

The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium developed by the Pachamama Alliance is being experienced all over the planet inspiring people to create an ecologically sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling human presence on the planet. The experience is incredible and such high quality!

Their work with the Achuar in Ecuador (and Peru) to save their piece of the rainforest is incredible...and a real partnership!

Great organization!

This is a well run social profit that is making a huge difference in both preserving the rainforest in Ecuador and empowering indigenous people to protect their ancestral territories. Additionally, The Pachamama Alliance is raising the consciousness in industrialized countries to change the thinking around environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Paul Hawken has called The Pachamama Alliance the #1 NGO in the world.

Working with Pacha Mama is deeply inspiring. There is a spirit of joy, commitment, hope and commitment to excellence which permeates their work and which moves me to grow to my full potential in serving the great shift in consciousness currently taking place on the planet. Thank you, Pacha Mama Alliance, for being such an inspiration!

Pachamama Alliance is changing the dream of the modern world through through their Awakenng The Dreamer Changing The Dream Symposium. http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org Symposium participants come to realize the possibility they have to create the environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just world we want.

I've been involved with the Pachamama Alliance as a volunteer for over 3 years. I love the cause: to create an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on the planet as the guiding principle of our time. I honored to be a part!

The Pachamama Alliance is working to change the dream for the modern world. And they accomplish this beautifully. They have created Symposiums that leave the audience with an artful blend of reality and hope. Their work could be a major part of saving humanity from destroying itself.

The Pachamama Alliance is a group of dedicated people world wide. With a spirit of fun, love and commitment we have made a huge difference in educating people about the environment and our rain forests. We have formed a beautiful relationship with the Achuar, indigenous people of Ecuador.

The Pachamama Alliance's mission is to springboard a new dream for the world; a dream that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just for all. This organization is creating a shift in consciousness that results in people making wiser choices that honor the earth, her inhabitants and all her people. They are incredibly well organized and powerful in their unique grassroots approach to educating and inspiring people into action. They have a profound and proactive partnership with the Indigenous in Ecuador whereby merging the voice of the ancient with the voice of the modern to create a sustainable future for our world.

From it's inception in 1995 the Pachamama Alliance has effectively made a difference in preserving the rain forest in Ecuador. Working with the indigenous Achuar people, an effective campaign was launched that eventually lead to the establishment of a new constitution that gives nature rights. Pachamama's, Awaken the Dreamer Change the Dream symposium continues to awaken attendees to the challenges we face today in the areas of environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Throughout the process of the symposium a new possibility for the earth unfolds and the participants leave with a new found commitment and hope for creating a better future. The Pachamama Alliance is one of the most effectively run non-profits, I know.

The Pachamama Alliance has a two-fold mission: to work with indigenous people in Ecuador, to help them preserve their ancestral lands, the rainforest, for the benefit of all of us; and to change, or "awaken" the people in the industrialized world, so that we, too conduct our lives in a way that preserves the health of the planet for all of us. I am particularly moved the soulful quality of all the people around this organization. As a sometime volunteer, it feels like no one lets their ego get in the way, and their work is always fulfilling and fun. They are one of the most effective organizations I have ever had the pleasure of participating with: they have already made a massive impact in helping several Amazon tribes organize themselves as an effective political entity in Ecuador, and have trained over a thousand volunteer workshop leaders in some 15? countries around the globe to deliver their 1/2-day workshop "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream"

When I completed my first "Awakening the Dreamer; Changing the Dream" Symposium, I knew that this was the organization that could make the most difference in the world. The Symposium skillfully demonstrates that environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment -- the very issues that were core in my own life -- are inextricably intertwined and part of a single whole - the possibility for a better life on our planet. I became a volunteer and learned that this understanding has roots in indigenous wisdom. I was moved to go to the Ecuadorian Amazon to learn first-hand about a way of life that has been sustainable for millenia. Pachamama's work in the Amazon (they were instrumental in helping Ecuador be the first nation whose constitution establishes rights for nature) is complemented by the educational work in the "modern" world, a unique and powerful blend.

I joined The Pachamama Alliance to be part of an organization that is making a difference--now. From playing an integral role in Ecuador's adoption of rights for nature in its new constitution to the capacity building that has helped indigenous groups in the Amazon defend and preserve their homeland and way of life, The Pachamama Alliance is truly changing the world.

In 1989 I traveled to the Achuar territory of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. The Achuar had successfully kept the outside world out for all this time. I realized that I was in the presence of life in a whole different paradigm. These people are the teachers for reconnecting to the Earth (Pachamama). I could not shake that experience. After a few more trips to visit the Achuar, I found out about the formation of The Pachamama Alliance. I give my time and money to nonprofits that show the most impact for my investment (of time and money). The Pachamama Alliance is an organization with extraordinary and wide-reaching impact. Through their focus they amplify the voices of the indigenous people (currently 5 communities of people and 5 million acres) in Ecuador's rainforest such that it has had deep effects on the protection of the rainforest and even on the rewriting of their country's constitution. Also, through the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, an educational component, a new awareness is brought to the developed world and has spread virally to over 28 countries.

This beautiful organization is a blend of ancient wisdom and modern technology. it's using the best of both worlds to teach, support, and inspire ALL of us to be the change we want to see on earth today.