I’m an industrial designer, this one was
as the profession that I chose but made
very early in the race I realized
that I wanted to start questioning that
industrial
I really did not want to be a tool
more than propagate to this society so
addicted to the consumption in which we live
I realized that being in four
walls in front of a computer
very much time was not life that I
I wanted to live
in fact and it goes against all
Human nature
then I really got into the task
start listening to my heart because
very deep inside of me I knew that there was
Much more
much much more then it was the first
tumble in education that I
I present life and he put me
question me how is it that we
we are teaching each other
what we are learning and what is the
real purpose of education in this
moment I started traveling I had the
possibility of finishing my studies
out of the country and start really like
a very beautiful adventure that led me to
find me very deeply with me and
find a very very universe
enriching that is called the
permaculture that is a bit of what
I come to talk to you now then first
as giving a look at the world in this
moment
I think it ‘s obvious to many that
There is something that must change
in fact there is something that is already changing
acceleratedly and if they ask me not
is something that is only necessary but that
it is urgent
I want to share with you two figures
I was very impressed with the first one
terms of our relationship with the
nature is that approximately 3.75
hectares of forest are cut down every
minute to minute as we speak
the equivalent of 5 soccer fields
is being totally destroyed and this
impact that we generate in nature
obviously it affects us
like human beings
according to the world organization of
health depression is the first cause
of disability in the world
we are sad and we are very bored
and we are children and young people from all over the
world that we are seeing our
parents to our grandparents crestfallen
sick and we really do not want to repeat
that vision
at this moment we are based on a
society that insists that we are
separated that insists that we are beings
limited
We are based on a society of
consumption distrust of dishonesty
We live in eagerness, it seems very normal
not look at each other in the eyes or not hug
from the heart here that we see ourselves
it seems normal to really be sad and
we are so immersed in this society
that we not only think that it is the only thing
what is there but the people who
we really want to change not
we know how or where to start
then to start at this moment
I want to propose that we make a
small exercise
I would like to please everyone close
his eyes that really fit in
their places do not have to stop
your chairs
let’s close our eyes
let’s breathe very deep and hades
stress every part of our body
let’s breathe and let’s connect
with that effervescent that starts to
bubble inside an emotion and a
emotion of being alive
let’s connect them with that center in
us where it is not necessary
absolutely nothing where and we are
full and we do not need anything
from outside to find everything
profound that we are each feel what
feel that momentum feel that strength
creative
that’s inside who wants more than
want to learn that you want to grow
wants to evolve that that brought them to
this planet and that brought them today to this
conference and allow that fire to be
expand throughout your body and that already
is in your hands feel your hands on
this moment feel the tingling and for
just a few seconds allow you to be
same surrender
the most beautiful thing that each one has for
in a hug caress
but find in the most beautiful that
have inside and deliver cycle with ones
Eyelids can open their eyes
between my trips I found
many people who were
really looking for the same thing that I
that is, it was very surprising to get to
find not only young but
also many adults who wanted a
different world that they wanted to smile
more we really wanted to breathe better
dance sing meditate together enjoy
to sit around a fire to
share a music
we wanted to touch the earth again and
Something very important
all these people is that they had in
common that they knew something called
permaculture and that’s what I think what
I have here today to me permaculture
it’s a very very inspiring movement that
it has spread all over the world
born in australia in the 70s to
final and I value it very much because
it really is a toolbox
who has touched many hearts
permaculture can be understood as
a philosophy of life to live a
much more conscious life and much more
sustainable in all dimensions of
our lives
etymologically the word
permaculture means culture
permanent how to create a culture that
can remain in time a
resilient culture that adapts to the
changes and the most basic way to
understand permaculture is your
essential expression that is a flower is
the flower that we are seeing is the flower of
the permaculture that in its center
contains its labels that are the
care of the earth
caring for people and the
fair distribution the surpluses and
around him his seven
petals that are the areas of
incidence of this philosophy then
from how we harvest how we work
we administer our land as
we inhabit in what way with what
materials we are building as
we use our technologies
appropriately how do we build those
new pedagogies that will follow
transforming the world how we care
our health our wellbeing
spiritual as we handle our
economy and how we organize ourselves from a
better way at a social level
political permaculture
certainly has inspired me a lot
fact mentioned again travel
because between italy and portugal and
turkey and london I’m interested in
know this kind of initiatives
I went to travel the world and to know
permaculture projects or initiatives
of transition or which of us that are
as farms completely
self-sustaining where is gestated in this
kind of projects and I noticed a
very interesting pattern because 90% of
these projects and these communities
fail and fail because of what I call
lack of spiritual glue
we do not know how to live in community
We do not know how to share in this
moment maybe it is something that we are
ap
watching but it’s hard for us to meet in
around a common purpose and
share values that allow us
tear down the barriers of our ego
we are very used to build
out there but we have forgotten
look and understand what is happening here
inside because the society outside that
we want to change is here and you have to
start with the essentials for us
same from the most local as
accessible
my relationship with what I am with my
thoughts with my emotions
my relationship with my closest environment
what are my family my friends relationship
with nature is very important
understand that at this moment is the being
human being the main problem but that
At the same time we are the only solution and
I feel that my mission
today is to come to share my certainty
that the future of the world is not in
the hands of a single person or a single
leader or single project only one
organization but the future is
in the capacity that we have all of
join our hands and really learn
to live in common unity and this
community is something that I feel that for
the Colombians is very very born
I do not know about you but I after leaving
of the country and return I have fallen in love
deeply of all the qualities
that we have in this country
in colombia the family extends to
the family of the friend and one goes out to the
party and ends in partying with the
neighbor of the brother- in- law of here we
we make up excuses to get together for
hug us to celebrate if we win
then let’s get together to celebrate together
and if we lose then come we get together and
we cried and we passed this pain and that’s not
it happens in all parts of the world
in fact it ‘s the other way around people in other
parties try excuses to be
isolated to get away to then leave
of their homes and being with their families
your friends here we have become accustomed
very much looking out supposedly
looking like new are better models
from
development but there are outside we have
with a magnifying glass looking at us because they know that
future is here
the future is here in our seas
in our mountains in our culture
warm and take forward
in fact for us the people who
We are here in manizales because I come to
share something important because one of
permaculture initiatives more
innovative now at this moment is
happening here or manizales is a
place and a super pértile stage and
super prone so they can grow and
do not do this kind of initiatives
manizales is the epicenter of our
region at the education level
university
We are a small city and very
accessible we are surrounded by mountains
beautiful protected by the great craftsman
cumanday and about two ago
years a group of people from different
professions and talents and passionate about
different things we get together
we sink and we create something called
schools of life schools of life is a
collective of collectives permaculture to
then we are not right now projecting
as a university that has as
function to make an incubator of
transformation both internally and
Exterior
then in life schools we
we bring together leaders from different
foundations organizations
independent
in fact also people who are
working in companies or people
natural that are simply
inspired by what we do
together and we sink in fact with the
purpose of living the life that we are
proposing to others to live nothing but
that we get together and every week
we want to see each other we want to embrace
we want to work the land together
get together mud
we want maybe to start designing as
‘Te pedagogical structures or programs
pedagogies to implement in the
city make a rich soup and really
without more pretensions simply
get together to be together for
sharing with life is not a
draft
in the future but that is what is
happening at each moment with each one of
us and it is very interesting what has
gone because with our experience and
while we walk together we can give a
I turn to the flower of permaculture that
are born australia
We are proposing a new flower where
the central petal and really the ground
fertile where that flower can grow in
harmony and strong is the petal of
inner transformation because
really in life schools
our purpose is the glue
spiritual that unites us is that each one
has the longing and deep intention
to transform from the inside out
it does not matter the spiritual line does not
religion matters the only thing that
it matters is that we respect each other
we love a lot and we feed ourselves
for every day to be much more
coherent with what we think what
we say and what we do then
It really is not a matter of what
we believe the only thing that matters is how
we behave and today I am here to
invite them to make an invitation
to all the people that maybe with
this talk and with these others
lectures as he feels in his heart
beats stronger if they feel there is a
smile on your face as I see there
many smiling
well, then they really deliver
to find that transformation of their
lives life schools open the doors
for everyone who is interested
In fact, very recently we opened our
first urban c that is called mother
cumbra and it is in the neighborhood the summit and
we are building the first one of
inside the city that serves as
collective learning center for
explore permaculture focused on the
interior transformation
then beyond all that the
invitation is for us to let go and
let’s divest ourselves of all our
masks our shells that we
they keep blind to the extraordinary
world and life as it is today
let’s go
again be able to surprise us and be able
enjoy fully
many thanks
[Applause]
[Music]
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