Generation Waking Up

David Burman/Toronto, Canada

I am a GenUp GameChanger because...

Ever since coming across the Awakening the Dreamer Changing the Dream symposium I have been jumping up and down excited by the possibilities this brings to cutting through the cynicism and despair that are so prevalent, while empowering people to really make a difference in a fundamental way. On the other hand I realize that anyone born since the mid 1980s has, for the first time in human history, been born into a world where the Earth can no longer restore what we humans are using up. That changes everything. Genup know this is true and still haven't given up, in fact are all the more powerfully engaged because of it, as am I. We can change the world and have an amazingly good time doing it - in fact that's the only way we'll change anything. So rock on Genup -- we can be the change.

How are YOU Changing the Game?

Facilitating as many ATD symposiums as I can. Inspiring students and others to get out of their consumer zombie despair and really start to live. Be fully alive myself -- it's contagious. Trying to be consistent with my ideals (ha! that's a hard one). Meeting and engaging the most incredible human beings along the way.