Overall goals, skills and interests to cultivate along my action learning pathway with Gaia U

Profile information

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I am a fahter, a husband and a biologist.

I am an activist and designer in the ecovillage movement in Colombia working towards transition and change at many scales.

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.

Personal goals

INNER WORLD:

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

OUTER WORLD:

  • Empowering Shared Leadership

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.