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MY TERRITORIES

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Anamaria sows and harvests fruits in three “territories” or sectors: Sustainability & Social Innovation, Human & Organizational Development, and Creativity.

SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL INNOVATION

As a Biology major from Mount Holyoke College, with a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Anamaria aims to promote sustainability at all levels in her work, and to have a positive impact on the planet. Since 2004, she is part of a global network of activists that work on the Great Transition towards sustainability, keeping up to date with the latest ideas to promote systems change. She became acquainted with the world of social innovation through Ashoka, where she worked 2002-2004 in the US, India and the Andean Region, connecting to a network of social entrepreneurs. During this period, she attended the World Summit on Sustainable Development and a few years later the World Social Forum, encountering many novel ideas. She met Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, where she contrasted the world of environmental policy and the grassroots reality, which she explores here. As a social innovator herself, Anamaria co-created an urban sustainability model called “Ecobarrios” (Econeighborhoods) in 2001 and co-founded Aldeafeliz Ecovillage in 2006, in the outskirts of Bogota. Aldeafeliz is an intentional community whose mission is to be a school of sustainability and of personal development, as well as a seedbed for social innovation, where we innovate in all aspects – environmental, social, economic and worldview, through social technologies such as Sociocracy and various activities that promote right relationship to self, other and the natural surrounding. From 2008-2010 Anamaria worked as a management and environmental consultant, at McKinsey, the World Bank, and the CAF, promoting sustainability at organizational and political levels. She presented at a major magazines’ event on Green Business, based on theories from her professors at Yale. She wrote a policy paper on Green Business opportunities in the Amazon, and then wrote a vision statement for the policy integration between the environmental sector and the extractive industries. From 2009-2017, Anamaria was part of the steering team of La Arenera, a network of social innovators, founding organization of the ImpactHub Bogotá, a co-working space for social entrepreneurs. La Arenera also launched the Colombian community of the Art of Hosting, where Anamaria has participated as a trainer. Along these lines, Anamaria participated and was the scribe for Evolución Colombia, an innovative, multi-stakeholder conversation about the future of Colombia led by Adam Kahane.

Since 2012 she is a coach, facilitator and curriculum advisor for two international organizations that train young leaders in sustainability and social innovation: Byron Fellows and Dalai Lama Fellows. She also became a facilitator of the Symposium “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” from Pachamama Alliance, organization that raises consciousness on linkages between the social, environmental and spiritual crises we are in as a human family and how to awaken with an attitude of “blessed unrest”.

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HUMAN & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Daughter and granddaughter of entrepreneurs, Anamaria became passionate about entrepreneurship and the world of organizations while doing an MBA at the Yale School of Management. She then worked as a management consultant at McKinsey 2007-2008 then World Bank until 2009. She became jury for the business plan competition “Ventures”. In parallel, she has been committed to her personal development to promote integral leadership and integral development in all the initiatives she is a part of. In 2007 she finished Landmark’s Curriculum for living. Since 2007 she has been coached by Guillermo Cuellar from the Center for Creative Consciousness. In 2010, she certified as an Integral CoachⓇ at New Ventures West, a US-based school with 30 years experience at international level, creator of the Integral CoachingⓇ model. Today she is part of the faculty of the school, under the mentoring of James Flaherty and Sarita Chawla. She is also a coach and leadership development practitioner with the Center of Public Leadership at George Washington University. Since 2010, she co-leads SoL Colombia, the Colombian chapter of the Society for Organizational Learning. Using tools and practices from the field of human and organizational development, SoL aspires to contribute to build a sustainable world. In 2014 she designed her own workshop, “Life Re-Vision”, which she continues to offer, while writing a book of the same title, published in Colombia in September 2017.

En el 2014 diseñó su propio taller llamado “Re-Visión de Vida”, que sigue llevando a cabo, mientras escribe un libro del mismo título.

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CREATIVITY

Anamaria began her musical and performance training at a musical academy in Colombia called “Misi”. She participated in various choruses in highschool and college and trained in music theory at the Youth Program of Javeriana University in Bogota. She participated in Berkelee’s Five Week Summer Performance Program, focusing in jazz piano. During college, she continued to receive private voice and piano lessons as well as composition classes, which is when she began writing her first songs. The compendium of all her songs came together in her first Album- “Ausencia & Luz”. In parallel to her music training, Anamaria acted in various plays during high school, college and beyond. From the Theater of the Absurd by Ionesco, Comedia dell’arte, Theater for Development, and Theater for the Oppressed. Nowadays, she is part of a collective for women artists called “Womoon” and collaborates with professional and amateur artists in musical and theatrical projects. Her own expression includes her Book, Music, Poetry, Writings, Music Nights, and ImprovCreative spaces to access unknown and surprising resources of the individual and collective self.

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