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Mycelial Resilience: a WTR Network Webinar with Hector Aristizabal and Claudia González
April 5, 2025 – For over seven years, Hector Aristizabal and his colleagues at Fundación Re-Conectando have been contributing to peace-building in Colombia from the perspective of Deep Ecology, using the Work That Reconnects and other healing methodologies. During four years of work with the Truth Commission, they approached reconciliation from an ecocentric perspective, understanding that conflicts between humans have their deepest roots in the trauma of separation between humans and other beings and living forces on the planet.
Faced with the dissolution of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Inter-American Foundation (IAF) by the current administration of the United States, the Re-Conectando team and colleagues in other organizations throughout Latin America are scrambling to respond to the sudden loss of organizational funds and the cancellation of vital projects.
In this webinar Hector and Claudia share about this sacred work.
Resources that were shared during the event:
The Soul’s Mycelium – international intensive in Colombia June 23-28
Make a donation directly to Fundación Re-Conectando to support this work.
Learn more about Re-Conectando here
Learn more about ECCO here and here
Other related resources mentioned:
- Theory U
- Theatre of the Oppressed – Augusto Boal
- Social Presencing Theatre – Arawana Hayashi
- Theater of Witness – Teya Sepinck
- Fantastic Fungi film
- Brilliant Mycelium by Beautiful Chorus
Héctor Aristizabal combines his experience as a psychotherapist, with his artistic work and activism. During his exile heworked in war zones and post-conflict using theater of the oppressed and other methodologies to explore alternatives to conflict and for the creation of community healing rituals. For many years, his work focused on training psychosocial teams in more than 50 countries such as Nepal, India, China, Northern Ireland, Senegal, Ukraine, Croatia, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and especially Syria and Colombia. In 2017 he returned to his native Colombia and with WTR practitioner Helena ter Ellen developed Re-Conectando a project that accompanied the work of The Truth Commission using deep ecology, social theater and healing rituals while working with victims, ex-combatants and others involved in the war. He is also co-founder of DreamingAction dedicated to creating a bridge between the best social and organizational practices. Hector was honored with the prestigious Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre and he is co-author with Diane Lefer of The Blessing Next to the Wound: A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation.
Claudia González is an entrepreneur, facilitator, and consultant in collective change processes rooted in living systems thinking, reconnection with the Earth, and deep transformation. She is the founder of ECCO, an organization that supports human groups in awakening their ecosystemic consciousness to co-create regenerative pathways.