I am a Certified Life and Career Coach, eLearning specialist and community resilience facilitator.
I have worked with immigrants and refugees as well as vulnerable populations in Canada and Latin America for over 20 years in roles that include teacher and coordinator, coach, community organizer, trainer, disaster response and planning facilitator, food sovereignty and permaculture design mentor and consultant.
I offer both full spiral and partial WTR workshops as part of the EDE (ecovillage design education programs from Gaia Education) and in my daily work with vulnerable populations.
I also work as a coordinator for the Work That Reconnects Network and eLearning consultant for the FDP (Facilitator Development Program) and Gaia Education.
Why I am called to facilitate the Work
We are living truly difficult times and people are confused, detached and scared. We have mass displacements and entire systems rapidly breaking down. I see the Work That Reconnects as a sacred call to support others to re-connect with themselves, each other and the wider community of ecosystems and more than human beings. I deeply believe that is only when we reconnect with what we are that radical hope, healing and transformation emerge.
How I see the Work serving the Great Turning
I see the Great Turning as the only sane option for healing and transformation. However, I also believe that the Great Turning won’t be possible without the Great Unraveling: the complex forces in place are already creating this everywhere. If we do nothing, the entire system will eventually crash, as it has started doing, and the outcome can be really ugly for many, both humans and more than humans. What is then our role in such complexity? That is where I see the Work: is it through the reconnection to who we are that we can find the strength to go through this together and support each other in spite of the despair, pain, frustration and fears that naturally emerge from the Great Unraveling. The Great Turning is just the other face: it is made by the conscious and caring choices we make, from small to big, from individual to collective. These choices are not possible nor sustainable unless we have learned to navigate the Spiral and discover that this is, in fact, a natural process.
Audiences I work with
I work with many groups, but most of my experience focus on vulnerable minorities which include immigrants and refugees and people with barriers such addictions, mental health and disabilities.
Lately, my experience has also incorporated young people in permaculture and ecovillage design programs.
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