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COLOMBIAN ECOVILLAGE NETWORK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LATINAMERICAN ECOVILLAGE NETWORK born at the conference held at our ecovillage in January 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I SERVE AS A MENTOR IN THIS INTERNASTIONAL NETWORK AND SUFI LINAGE FOR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

CAREER REVIEW

Cover letter

I am co-founder of Atlantida Ecovillage, in southwest mountains of Colombia.
This is my home and main project.
I live there with my mother, partner, daughter and friends.
Learning and un-learning about the social, ecological, economic and cultural dimensions of sustainability, or even better, of transition towards regenerative communities.
Click here to have a taste of our ecovillage

As a biologist, facilitator and innovator I am currently involved with  CASA -latinamerican ecovillage network- and RENACE -colombian ecovillage network.
Specially focusing in scale up strategies for our networks, ecovillages and our people in terms of education, new ecovillages and traditional villages transition, business/consultancy opportunities and associated grassroots movement.

Happy to be alive in these times of radical hope and heroic change, to be linked with the Sufi chain of blessing through the Dances of Universal Peace and to be part of the awakening of the Condor-Eagle prophecy through the ancestral knowledge, rituals and medicine.

Looking for the delicate balance of outreach and quietness, going mainstream and remain alternative, family and world, travel and home, new info and deep knowledge, specialize and general.

Interests

  • Permaculture
  • Ethno-ecology
  • Eco – business planning and managing
  • Promotion of Social Resilience.
  • Action Learning in Community, globalization and Sustainability.
  • Organizational enhancement (strategic planning, power sharing, work plans, conflict solving techniques, consensus decision making, collective intelligence)
  • Universal spirituality, compared religion studies, native American wisdom and new science (quantum physics, Gaia theory, conscious water, etc)

Personal information

Date of birth 23 January 1978
Place of birth Colombia
Citizenship Colombia
Visa status open and active
Gender identity Man
Marital status Engaged

Goals

Personal goals

INNER WORLD:

  • Mindful Living
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Loving Kindness
  • Continuous Awakening

OUTER WORLD:

  • Empowering Shared Leadership
Academic goals

  • Bring into the mainstream academia the aliveness of the alternative movements and projects.

  • Bring into the alternative world the systematization and rigour of the academy.

  • Enhance the capacity of the ecovillage movement to multiply projects, grow in alliances, expand its social base and followers, and become active in the transformation of society.
Career goals
  • Consolidation of Atlantida Ecovillage as a living and learning centre with functioning demonstrations of collective well being, permaculture and ecological restoration.
  • Deliver a professional service of consultancy and implementation of human sustainable settlements.
  • Project design, fundraising and contracting for the transition of traditional villages into resilient and thriving communities.
  • Articulation of a platform of alliances for an all inclusive grassroots  movement for eco-social regeneration with capacity for political action and reality transformation.

Skills

Personal skills
  • Action Learning in Community, globalization and Sustainability.
  • Organizational enhancement (strategic planning, power sharing, work plans, conflict solving techniques, consensus decision making, collective intelligence)
  • Youth gatherings and formative plans for sustainability leadership
  • Art as a transformative tool (theatre, puppets, circus, music)
Academic skills
  • Dynamics and structure of tropical forests.
  • Ecological impact evaluations.
  • IAP Techniques (Colombian methodology of Science Research for the community and with the community, with a clear action plan as result).
  • Ethno-ecology.
  • Action Learning in Community, globalization and Sustainability.
Work skills
  • POT’s (Planes de Ordenamiento Territorial) (Territorial Ordering Plans)
  • Techniques of participatory elaboration of Environmental Managing Plans with communities.
  • Techniques and methodologies of Territory Mapping combining social cartography, air photograph, scale maps and satellite images (GIS), together with historic reconstruction of use and manage of the land.
  • Ecological impact evaluations.
  • Permaculture
  • Eco – business planning and managing
  • Action Learning in Community, globalization and Sustainability.
  • Organizational enhancement (strategic planning, power sharing, work plans, conflict solving techniques, consensus decision making, collective intelligence)
  • Languages: Spanish and English (speaking, reading and writing)
  • Computer skills: Microsoft office (word, excel, PowerPoint), basic video and audio edition, e-mail, teleconferences and blogs.

History

Employment history
1996 - 2000

Area coordinator for the process of community organization toward the territorial and cultural reinforcement with a concerted Environmental Managing Plan for 102.000 Has with 20 communities. Ethno-ecology research: Ecology studies of the ecosystems in the Pacific coast (sea, mangrove, forest) trough the traditional knowledge of the afro communities.

1997 - continued

Involved in the design, writing, funding process and implementation of several programs and projects in the fields of education, community development, environmental sciences and childhood.

2001 - 2002

several processes, events and workshops in sustainability and culture throughout Ecuador.

2003 - continued

Participatory design and implementation of models for the social, ecological, cultural and economic aspects of community sustainability.

2006 - continued

Motor Team and co-organizer of 6 national gatherings and 1 international convergence. Hosting of several education events, courses and strategies for sustainability.

2007 - 2012

Partner, Board and Director of Operations in Ecuador for Biopack, exclusive southamerican representatives for EPI (Environmental Products Inc.). Introducing in the country TDPA technology, for the manufacturing of biodegradable plastics. Including the opening of the market for a new product, conferences, seminars and education events. Designing and launching of advertising campaigns with clients, technical support, business plan, administrative management.

Education history

1994 - 2001

With special focus/practice on geobiology, conservation, sustanability, ethno-biology and action research

Address: Ciudadela Universitaria Melendez

2000

With Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Wendell Berry, Stephan Harding, James Lovelock, Brian Goowin

Consensus, Permaculture and Ecoconstruction (practical courses) at Rainbow Peace Caravan

2001

Mayan calendars, cosmology and science (diploma) at Foundation for the Law of Time

2002

Facilitator of the Dances of Universal Peace (Certified Teacher) at Peace Works International

2003 - 2006

Trainer of facilitators of the dances of universal peace (Certified Mentor) at INDUP

2006 - 2010

Water Management (practical course) at Pachamama Ecovillage

2010

2011

Buen Vivir or Sumak Causay is an ancient andean way of life containing from priciples, ethics and cosmology to practical structures and methods for social organisation and production. Litteraly means "good life" and invokes collective wellbeing -including all the non-human spheres of the collective. It is now contained in the National Constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia, and is gaining momentum as a complete model in the search for alternatives for/to development.

Ecovillage Design Education (Trainer) at Gaia Education

2012

Certifications, accreditations and awards

1994

From my high rank in the national academic tests I was awarded a full grant for my whole career as long as I kept my grades above 3.9

Books and publications

1999

Author of 4 chapters: 1. Global Economy 2. Environmental Crisis 3. Ancestral Pre-hispanic Concepts 4. Evolution of Life

Contribution to the Ecology of the Ecosystems of the Chocó through the Traditional Knowledge of the Afrodescendants Communities of the Bajo Baudó.
2001
2010

An ecuadorian publication for free distribution in the form of a primer or small magazine. Including the description of the enviromental and social planetary crisis and practical solutions for households.

2011

National Newspaper article.

2011

Essay on the presetn times and alternative movements. Published freely in several internet portals as: http://redholistika.ning.com/group/ecoaldeas-comunidades-intencionales/forum/topics/articulos-ecoaldeas

2012

Background and methodology for the coordination teams of the 4 simultaneous vision council in Colombia 2013

2012

http://dancesofuniversalpeace.org/sp/articlesint1.shtm

2013

http://gen-europe.org/activities/news/news-detail/artikel/colombia-ecovillages-growing-together-towards-a-unified-movement/index.htm

Professional memberships

2010

The world wide circle of certified mentors of the international network for the dances of universal peace. www.dancesofuniversalpeace.org

CASA Network
2012
RENACE Colombia board
2006
INDUP board
2012
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