Welcome to Pyramid 2012!

The Global Workshop: Next Steps

Welcome to Pyramid 2012, a global event to support sustainable development, based on a workshop called Pyramid. The official deadline for participating in Pyramid 2012 was on the 31st of March. Groups of volunteers from all over the world organized Pyramid workshops to discuss and create action plans for sustainability issues that interested them. Their experiences will be shared with the world in preparation of the UN Rio+20 summit, in the form of a global report.

Encouraged by the enthusiastic responses, we are now considering taking Pyramid 2012 a step further. Please read more about this here and give us your feedback. 

Are you a newcomer? It is not too late to get involved in our project! Get yourself familiarized with the Pyramid workshop by reading the brief orientation below and have a look at the reports coming in from the workshops that have already taken place! Then join our newsletter and drop us a line about the ways in which you would like to contribute to the next phase of Pyramid 2012, should we decide to go on!

Quick Links:  Read the workshop reports>>   Download free resources>>   Register and join>>   Find workshops>>   Get the background>>

A Brief Intro and Orientation

Pyramid 2012 — a global workshop event involving dozens of groups around the world — was officially launched at the Global Issues Network – GIN Manila 2012 conference. Pyramid lead developer Alan AtKisson kicked off that conference, Pyramid expert facilitator Robert Steele was there to provide support, and 20 groups of students from all over Asia built Pyramids focused on 10 different global issues.

Other groups joined and Pyramid workshops were completed in Ireland, Indonesia, Bangladesh, New York, Washington, Poland, Hungary … and the list can go on.

Pyramid 2012 was a voluntary, global-scale workshop event, (unofficially) linked to the “Rio+20″ sustainability summit this year. There was no participation fee, and the door was open to all. This was part of our call for involvement during the campaign months:

1. Sign up! When you sign up, you can tell us if you want to lead a “Pyramid” workshop in your area. Or, we’ll link you up to the nearest Pyramid 2012 event as a participant. Be sure to tell us what country you live in!
2. Download the free “Pyramid Lite” manual and get familiar with the simple steps in the one-day process. Click here to download the workshop manual (PDF, 1.2 MB)
3. Set a date!  We launched on 17 February 2012, but you can choose any date that works for you, up to the end of March if you want to be included in our report to the United Nations. (Pyramids after that date are also fine! But may not make it into the report …)
4. Recruit a group of people to participate! This can be a group of students, work colleagues, friends, neighbors … whatever is appropriate to your situation. Recruit more than one!
5. Do your Pyramid workshop … and post the results to us, via the links in the Resources section. We want your results! in words, pictures, videos, blog entries … so tell us (and the world!) what your group concluded when you built your Pyramid.

Never heard of Pyramid?  See:  What is “Pyramid”?

Want to learn more about who we are, why we’re doing this, and how it all is designed to work? See Who We Are, About and FAQ.

What’s our goal? To get people engaged, to inspire people, to generate ideas and energy for sustainability. We’ll put the results together into a wonderful report, and submit it to the UN in advance of the Rio+20 summit. More importantly, we’ll spread that report around the world, so that other people can get inspired by what you, and thousands of other people, have come up with, using Pyramid!

Again, participation in Pyramid 2012 is free. This is a volunteer-driven event. Using the free “Pyramid Lite” manual, you can plan, run, and document your whole workshop. If you want more facilitation help, or more advanced materials, just let us know, and we’ll hook you up … but you have everything you need right here.

Please note: If this is the first time you’re hearing about Pyramid 2012, it is no longer possible to organize a workshop in time for the global report.

However, you can still join our secure mailing list if you’d like to be informed about the next steps of this campaign. Let us know your opinion on Pyramid 2012 and how you’d like to be involved, in case there will be a Phase 2. Here are a few ways in which you could contribute:

• help develop the next steps of the campaign;
• commit to organize a Pyramid workshop at a later date;
• put us in contact with people and organizations who might want to support this;
• help us to spread the word about Pyramid.

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- The Pyramid 2012 Team