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Sydney Scott Howard B. Esbin
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Introduction

• Imagination is more important than knowledge -
  Einstein
• What Is Imagination?
• Is it a thought, a wish, a dream, a hope?
• Imagination is the ability to form images and
  ideas in the mind
• Why Is imagination more important than knowledge?

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Strategic Partnerships

• Imagination is the eye of the soul - Joseph
  Joubert
• Al Mithal The Land Of Nowhere
• An intermediate zone existing between the
  immaterial material world
• A nexus between what is and what may be.
• Breathes life into airy nothings

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Introduction

• De realibus a realora - V. Ivanov
• The Blue Rose
• Exemplar of the power of imagination
• The Blue Rose Society
• From the real to the more real

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The EARTH Project

• When what if becomes what is from luxury
  car ad
• Imagination Is The Great Mediator
• ? The blue rose is a symbol of all that we long
  for
• ? It is a symbol of all that is imaginable

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International Projects
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Workshop Process

• We have forgotten how to practice dreaming and
  visioning, severing ourselves from springs of
  communal understanding and regeneration - Mary
  Watkins
• The Sad Truth
• Most of us have lost faith in our imaginal
  capacity
• We no longer hear our own intuitive voice
• Weve been conditioned into left brain thinking
• We become largely externalized in perception and
  focus

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EARTH Symposium

• The vast majority of us aren't just putting our
  dreams on ice -- we're killing them - P. Bronson
• Consequences
• ? So many people dislike their work and lives
• ? We have been conditioned by years of
  negativity, denial, and fear
• ? Our education is based on rewards for being
  right and penalties for being wrong
• By 18, well have been praised and encouraged
  30,000 times and criticized and discouraged over
  250,000 times

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EARTH Production

• We are citizens of two worlds the present and
  the imagined.
• Out of this antithesis the future is born." F.
  Pollack
• The Heliotropic Effect Turning To The Light
• Weve never lost our imaginal power
• It is a natural capacity always available to us
• ? Reconnection is as easy and effortless as
  wishing on a star
• ? When individuals or groups imagine positively
  then great transformation occurs

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EARTH Festival

• I was a hidden treasure longing to be known
  Quran
• Tales Of Transformation
• ? Each of us has a hidden treasure deep within
• By discovering our hidden self, we discover
  our own unique story
• ? This wisdom has been known in all ages

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More EARTH Platforms

• The world is made up of stories, not atoms -
  M. Rukeyser
• Serious Play Games
• Through imagination, play, story telling, and
  games all things become possible
• Imaginal education games such as piXplay and
  Inpower help us restore balance
• Opens up many more options to learn and
  understand our selves and others

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The Spirit Of Connection

• It showed me who I am Inpower Player
• Where There Is Imagination, There Is Hope
• Inpower helps players
• Discover their own inner treasure
• Bring it to light and fruition
• Envision a holistic, empowered self image

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Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber Kaleidoscopic Being Thinking Is
Key ? piXplay! is an art-based group learning
game ? Players use multiple literacies
intelligences ? A striking wall sized mural is
produced ? Players gain powerful insights
about holism interdependency
The EARTH Project

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BCE The EARTH Project

• If you cant imagine it, you cant change it -
  Chicago Housing Coop
• Limitless Imagination In An Expanding Universe
• People dont succeed by migrating to a hot
  industry. They thrive by focusing on who they
  really are and connecting to or creating work
  that they truly love (and, by doing so,
  unleashing a productive and creative power that
  they never imagined).
• - From What Should I Do With My Life, Po Bronson

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