I am 47 years old, studied business administration in Mexico, then studied an MBA in Barcelona, and worked for over 20 years in things that I hated, just maximizing profit.
In 2018 my life came to a turning point, probably the midlife crisis, and I started questioning everything. Why am I working here? Why am I living here? What is my purpose in life? Is this the life I want? Is making money my only purpose in life?
One thing lead to another and all this questions made me aware of the planetary crisis we are in. I decided that was something I really wanted to get involved in. I made that my purpose in life.
But when I started exploring it, a whole universe opened. I had no idea what I wanted to do. So I started studying, reading and experimenting a lot of new things. Permaculture, agro ecology, bio construction, systems thinking, community resilience, I worked in a couple of NGO’s looking for something that I really loved, believed in and wanted to put my life into.
Then I found the transition movement, started reading Rob Hopkins, took the transition facilitators training program, and that really resonated with me.
I feel that at the core of our multi crisis there is a lack of imagination from our end (the majority), and a necessity of maintaining the status quo for a minuscule minority.
I also feel that other main issue we need to work on is our disconnection with Nature. I LOVE Nature. I am Nature. We are Nature. So that is other issue I am getting involved in. Reconnecting myself to Nature and being of service to others to reconnect with Gaia.
So, at the moment I am taking an online course with Gaia Education and in march I am taking other two “in person” programs. My intention is to become a trainer and be of service to others in feeling and re connecting to our Mother Earth. I will be collaborating with a community in San Cristobal to hold space for these re integration with Nature process.
I also feel a profound calling to imagination, to re imagine new worldviews. As Albert Einstein once said, in times of crisis imagination is more important than intellect.
So I started reading a lot in the subject of imagination, collective imagination, futures thinking and participatory futures (IFTF), social imagination, Rudolf Steiner, Michael Meade, Ken Robinson, Octavia Butler…
I would love to learn, to imagine together, to be of service, to imagine a future for every living being with no one left out.
Let me share with you what I have been imagining, visualizing and feeling is needed.
I feel we need physical, local, safe spaces to create community to practice our collective imagination and futures thinking. Not only a temporal workshop or gathering. Most of our “third places” have been displaced by shopping malls and consumerism. We need to create spaces where imagination is practiced, where we can create community, art, myth, share our visions and our grief. Play, imagine and create together.
At the same time we need to be connected to all that is going on around the planet. To all the imagination, the creativity and visions of the future. To share our knowledge so we can create collective wisdom.
I feel we need to create physical local spaces all around the world with interconnected sharing of all that is learned and of all the possibilities being imagined and created. What worked, what did not, methodologies, reading material, personal and group learnings (gold), visions of the future, signals and drivers…
