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In the Elos Methodology, the Dream is one of seven movements that support the creation of a common future — one radically better for all beings at once. It’s that moment that happens in every piece of work, in every community or territory, when people in the circle start sharing, many looking upward, that if things went in the direction they imagine, life would be better than it is today.
Myrian Castello had no idea that this was how things worked when she joined the GSA Program eleven years ago. It felt like coming home. She’s one of 679 people in the GSA Network — people who have gone through our training in mobilizing leadership.
Back then, in 2014, she had just launched an organization with the evocative name Fábrica dos Sonhos — “Dream Factory.” She already knew that the real sparkle in her eyes appeared when she listened to someone share what they dreamed of, whatever it might be. She’s said more than once that she could stay in that moment for hours. Then she found a place, a group of people, that turned that moment into a way to fish for clues about shared futures. It was a leap toward what she imagined doing with her life. Like finding a ruler and a compass, as Gil sings.
“Fábrica dos Sonhos was born in 2013, but it was in the Guerreiros Sem Armas Program the following year that I saw up close the true power of collective dreams. The word ‘methodology’ gave meaning and direction to create and to be much of who I am today — and much of what Fábrica dos Sonhos is now,” she explains.
That was the first time Myrian saw she was heading in the right direction doing what she did. It was when she felt part of something greater than her own dreams — the conviction that, yes, the world can and will be better than it is now, she says. In GSA 2014, she realized “that there was a place for me in the world and that there were people doing incredible things. I understood that when a dream is shared, it ceases to be just an idea and becomes a mobilizing force capable of transforming entire communities,” she defines.
For the Elos Institute and for Myrian, Dream is a matter too serious to be taken lightly. So serious that she thought it could even be a constitutional right. And it turns out she and her network are quite close to making that happen.
The Dream as a Basic Right of the People
For several years now, Myrian has dedicated her life to promoting the Dream as a technology for human development. From that desire came actions, projects, and countless gatherings. And around this purpose grew the Right to Dream Movement. Through it, and together with hundreds of others who believe in the transformative power of dreaming, the conversation made its way to Brasília — to the Chamber of Deputies.
“We made a manifesto, a petition, and a bill that was formally registered through the Chamber’s Participatory Legislative Commission. It remained under review for three years until it became a Constitutional Amendment Proposal in 2025,” she explains. This means that if the proposal is approved by the deputies, the Dream will become a fundamental right in Brazil.
“Guaranteeing the Dream as a right means creating public policies and educational and cultural spaces that expand the possibilities for people to imagine and realize. It means supporting those who dream and removing the barriers that prevent dreams from blooming in everyone,” she details.
In practice, the Brazilian State would have to commit to creating conditions so that all people — regardless of who they are or where they come from — can imagine what they want to be and do with their lives. Just as she did.
“This means sustaining public policies that expand references, possibilities, and opportunities, especially for those whose horizons have been most limited.” For example, in the field of education, this would mean shaping a vision of school in which the curriculum is not exclusively technicist, leaving room for the act of imagining and storytelling.
For Myrian, this inclusion in the Federal Constitution changes everything because it moves dreaming from the realm of the individual into that of public policy — where imagination also becomes a collective and transformative act. “Dreaming is what makes us human. And defending the right to dream is, at its core, defending humanity itself. I believe that building the common good is precisely this: dreaming together and acting together, thinking globally and acting locally,” she affirms.
If times seem harder, if dreaming — in the sense of imagining freely what the world and the self could become — seems to have less space and time in our lives, Myrian and the Right to Dream Movement offer an irresistible invitation to hope.
“For me, when someone says that dreaming is something distant, that only reinforces how urgently we need to make it a guaranteed right. I don’t blame those who think that way in a world that teaches us, from a very young age, to disbelieve — especially when there’s not enough food on the table, for example. But dreaming is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. It’s not a privilege; it’s a right. To deny the right to dream is to deny the right to exist with dignity,” she states.