Friday, September 9, 2016

2017-2020 The Return Tour and Documentary Film




Return to Love
A Trans-media Caravan Tour and Documentary Film 
Using Music, Film, Art and Education to promote Sustainable Economic Development   

Ushering in a World that Works for All Life

2017- 2020

 All Rights Reserved - April 2017
Samara Shaw



   

WHAT: 
A series of 13 fund/awareness raising - eco-business development events, traveling Caravan Style to Cities and towns all over the United States.

Each event will be accompanied by:

·      Eco-nomic Development and Training Programs designed to facilitate and stimulate Eco-business Development and Generative Growth Programs at the Local, State, National, and Global levels.

·      Ceremonies and Teachings from a Council of Twelve Elders from A variety of Indigenous, Religious, and Cultural Traditions.  The Council will demonstrate, through practical, hands on, Ceremonies, Teachings, and Protocols, "The Original Instructions", "Nature’s Laws", and "The Principals of Peace", as outlined from each of their respective traditions.

·      Stories, Music, Art, Theater, Film, Music, and New Media, that Uplift, Empower, Encourage Responsibility, Unite, and share positive visions of the future.

·      A DocumentaryReturn To Love - Documenting the Process of Humanities Healing and Awakening.   Following, The Council of Twelve, as they travel with Economic Development Specialists, Visionary Artists, Healers, and Teachers, on a 13 Event Caravan Tour around the United States.  The Eco-nomic Development and Training Programs, combined with healing, inspirational stories, teachings, art and music, and Ceremony, will serve to revitalize American Cities and Towns.  

Eco-nomic Development and Training

WH1 in partnership with:

·      American Global - Global LeaderShift Academy
·      
     YK Center
     http://ykcenter.org

·      Sustainable Brands
     http://www.sustainablebrands.com/

·      Local, State, and National Chambers of Commerce
·      Small Business Associations
·      SCORE
·      Local, National and International Business Incubators working to accelerate the New Economy

Will produce a series of Eco-business Development Training, Conscious Wealth Creation Programs, and Eco-Business Summits.

These Programs will be accompanied by Small, Medium and Large Events that celebrate and highlight a different aspect of the Wheel of Co-Creation, as outlined by Barbara Marks Hubbard at The Foundation for Conscious Evolution:  Here is a beautiful modification of the wheel from United Earth - see link below.






The Return will assist thousands of people all over the country at the Local, State, National, and Global levels, to start for and non-profit Eco-Businesses.  The Return will insure that participants also have the means to follow through on their business ideas, by donating 80% of revenue from Events, Merchandise, Art, Music, and Workshops, directly to Designated Local Sustainable Economic Development Centers.

Ceremonies and Teachings

The Return Tour will include a Council of Twelve Elder/Healers from Twelve Religious, and/or Ancient, Spiritual Indigenous Traditions. These Elder/ Healers will demonstrate that not only does Love Matter, but that Love also effects matter.  An example of One Such Healer Was Rainbow Thunder Heart, Founder of Earth Wisdom Foundation.  Examples of his powerful work are here:

·      Rainbow Thunder Heart, Shoshone Earth Healer, Founder of Earth Wisdom Foundation, explains the importance of the work:  https://vimeo.com/111891256

·      In this video, a community in Big Bear came together to help heal the environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WEVY41EpKg

·      Medicine Wheel Ceremony on Turtleback Mountain, Orcas Island, WA  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7KC4wr-D4

See Each One Teach One for a list of Elders we are Partnering with:
http://www.each1teach1movement.com

Documenting Humanity’s Awakening
Return to Love 

Return to Love, a Feature Documentary Film will document the Council of Twelve as they demonstrate, through various Spiritual Healing and Ceremonial Traditions, that Love, Prayer, and Intention, and Consciousness, effect matter.

Interviews with scientists, educators, business owners, politicians, etc. who, through their work and profound achievements, demonstrate and prove that Love is the most powerful force in the Universe, and when strategically and effectively applied, Love has the power to effect lasting and real change in our Nation, It’s People, and Our Planet. 

Return to Love, the Documentary will do the following:

·      Demonstrate what our Indigenous Ancestors, Shamanic Practitioners, and Advanced Spiritual Teachers from traditions all over the world, have known all along, that not only does prayer have a real effect on the biology of the human body, it also has the power to effect and change the elements in our environments, ecosystems, societies and cultures.   Return To love will Document: 

§  Medicine Wheel and other Ancient Ceremonies and Protocols that invite humanity back to The Sacred Circle – back to do, as our ancestors once did, to join together in prayer and Celebration.  We will remember the times in history when our Ancestors lived in peace and harmony with the Earth and with Each Other –We will invoke those times when all voices, all people, all life, and especially Love, mattered above all else.         

§  Interviews with trained Scientists, And Master Teacher/Practitioners from all aspects of Modern Life -  Business Leaders, Educators, Doctors, Politicians, Farmers, etc. who understand how and why Consciousness, Love, Intention, Prayer effect matter.    

§  Scientific Studies, done on site, that Measure the effect the ceremonies, prayers, and intention are having on the people, the biology of the plants in the area, the various elements, and surrounding ecosystems. 


Telling the New/Ancient Story
Outreach and Edu-tainment through Transmedia  

From Wikipedia: “Transmedia Storytelling - is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies.”

Using Storytelling, Music, the Arts, New Media (a Transmedia approach), The Return will encourage individuals, businesses, groups and communities to develop a positive vision of their future.  They will also be given the practical tools, resources, and training to implement those visions in their lives and their communities.

Utilizing an improvisational, interactive musical theater Piece, titled, The Shift, as a stepping off point, a troupe of performers, trained in theater, sound healing, movement, and various ancient and sacred performance art and healing techniques, will perform an ongoing, evolving story that inspires a positive vision of the future and illustrates the awakening process.

The story of The Shift illustrates what happens when people resist change, awakening and spiritual growth.  The Plot and Characters mirror what is happening in the real world. The Shift will be an evolving and ongoing record and expression of real world people, events and developments.

Caravan – “Chautauqua” Style

Return to Love Caravan will travel, "Chautauqua" style with Educators, Indigenous Elders and Wisdom Keepers, Life Coaches, Musicians, Activists, Artists, etc., 

Eco-nomic Training Programs will be offered by WH1, American Global, YK Center, and Earth Wisdom Foundation, bringing individuals, organizations, businesses and communities into a profound, “Journey of Self Discovery.” 


The Tour

Return to Love - The Tour will follow in the tradition of a Chautauqua, a popular Adult Education Movement from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.  Chautauqua brought popular preachers, politicians, and performers of the day, the latest in health care options, and adult education opportunities, to rural communities.

The Chautauqua movement was so successful that former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt said that Chautauqua is "The most American thing in America." 

Educational Outreach

Networking with various digital and real time educational platforms, learning centers, community colleges, publishers, universities, and schools, Return to Love will share the wisdom, teachings, interviews, experiences, and with people around the Globe. 


LRNG:  Redesigning learning for the connected age http://about.lrng.org/lrng-innovators/

Timeless Earth and Timeless Learning:  http://timelessearth.co/, Linda.com, and others, as yet to be identified, will work together to insure that the media from the Tour, reaches as many people as possible.   


Return to Love Documentary and Tour
Timeline

Phase 1
May- Dec. 2017
Development

May-Dec. 2017
Core Groups/Teams Assemble

This Fall and Winter, a Core Planning Group, Musical Theater Troupe, and A Council of 6-12 Healers and Artists, will Come together – some to Live and work together, others to come and go- for three months of focused work.   

They will:
·      Develop a plan for The Tour
·      Develop a Musical Theater Outreach Show
·      Travel as a collective, to events, festivals, and gatherings.
·      Produce their own gatherings
·      Raise Funds for a Mobil Music and Film Production Studio, and the larger tour.

Fundraising, Planning

·      Set up Online and real-time Fundraising Events - Showcasing the work of Visual and Performing Arts Collective. 
   
·      Continued Tour Planning
·      Hiring and Assembling Teams for:

o   Return to Love - Documentary
o   Events
o   Eco-nomic/Personal Development Workshop Programs
o   Arts and Edutainment Outreach
§  Production Team
§  Musical Theater

o   Social Media
o   Digital Media
o   Website

§  Planning and Development Team for Sustainable Development Learning Centers in Los Angeles, Ojai, CA, Ashland, OR, Squim, WA, and Orcas Island, WA - Where Tour Teams, Elders, Teachers, etc. can Gather, Recharge, Plan, Regroup, Live etc. Also where The New Leader/Entrepeneurs, their Teachers and families can eventually live and learn.  

The Learning Centers will be models of sustainable living and offer examples and resources for the wider communities for Sustained, Generative, Eco-nomic Development.  

PHASE 2:  Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2020
Implementation

·      Events around the United States (Dates, Locations TBD)
·      First Large Event -  Early 2018 –Los Angeles, CA – Location TBD 

·      Last Large Event Jan 2020 – New York City


Budgets

Phase 1 -  May-Dec. 2017
Total - $300,000 – $500,000

Expenses
(Low End estimates below.  Higher end- 500,000 would allow for newer and higher quality equipment.)

Core Groups
Housing – 2 months @ $2,500/mo                             5,000
Food –12 people for 2 months                                    2,500
Stipend - $2,000 each/mo for 2 months@ 12 people   24,000

Materials and Equipment
Mobile Recording Studio                                              50,000
Dome                                                                        25,000                        
Vehicles, Gas, Transportation expenses                       200,000

Total                                                                          306,500


Phase 2 - Jan 2018 -First Big Event LA

Revenue

·      Online Fundraisers, Crowd Funding
Online and Art Auction, Album/Music Sales
Small Salon Fundraising Gatherings/Presentations, Films Screenings of films like Rainbow Thunder Heart’s Documentary - http://snow-riders.org/miracles/miracles10t.html
Ojai, CA, Mt. Shasta, CA, Ashland, OR, Eugene, OR, Olympia, WA, and Orcas Island, WA.  
Accompanied by Ceremonies
Small and Large Music Fundraising Events


Phase 2 – 
Total – $500,000 - $1,000,000

Small, Medium and Large Fund and Awareness Raising Events All over the West Coast – many in the LA area.

Preparing for a large Event in Jan 2018 (Budget Coming Soon) 

WH1 Foundation

WH1 Foundation encourages, advances, and accelerates the New/Ancient Cultures through Media, Arts, Education, Film, Networking, Events and the Development of Learning Centers that will Educate the New Leaders in all aspects of the Wheel of Co-Creation.     

WH1 Foundation supports and encourages products, services and sustainable businesses through the Creation of a Eco-Business Development Funds in each City or town the foundation works in. 

Funds are raised through Wealth Creation Training and Information, Events, Films, etc, as we build a powerful network devoted to the practice of the new economic models and encourage Earth Conscious decision making at every turn.


Partners/Sponsors

Earth Dollar
http://www.earthdollar.org

Earth Wisdom Foundation


Global LeaderShift Academy


Press:
1984 – Big Bear, CA – Ending the Drought

Blogtalk Radio

Barbara Marks Hubbard, Denise Kusinish – Propose Peace Room

Samara Shaw –The Shift -  Orcas Island