On The Edge of Systems Change: A Clubhouse Chat w/ Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis
“‘Vivir savoroso’, how we say in Colombia, living with flavor, with enjoyment, with depth and inspiration, being silly, being joyful. All of these things that make life worth living and deep are also part of what I would like to nourish and to cultivate through my work.”
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Featured song: Conga Pasajera, Yusa · Juan Carlos Marin · Yusimil Bridon Lopez (Yusa)
Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis and Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia chat about Ana Lucía’s relationship and journey thus far with systems change theory and practice—from noticing to applying to consistent integration and intention. She shares some of the channels that connect her to this way of approaching her work including direct experience, education, and the places where she finds inspiration and examples to draw from in the living world. Ana Lucía believes in and talks about her work with imagination, joy, flavor, relationship to land, territory, and harnessing the power of our collective and individual dreams to create the changes we want to see.
Ana Lucía is co-founder of Arare Corporation, a civil organization dedicated to support and nourish territorial organization and socioenvironmental regeneration processes in Colombia and Latin America. She is experienced in participatory management and design of social, productive and humanitarian projects, public policy design with indigenous peoples, and applied research in education, rural and sustainable development, amongst other subjects.
Learn more about Ana Lucía HERE.
Illuminate’s Power, Justice and Systems Change Webinar Series is an international conversation about power and the role of equity and justice work in changing systems.
Systems change initiatives are often led from the center of the existing systems we seek to change. Yet, we know that systems change practitioners are working in diverse contexts, communities, doing systems change under different disciplines, using different languages, frameworks, methodologies and coming from various lineages of thought and practice. It is also clear that we need a strong, diverse and connected field of systems change leaders to address the complexity and scope of the problems of the 21st century.
“On the Edge of Systems Change” utilizes the Clubhouse application, to illuminate the voices of Systems Change Practitioners committed to centering equity and sharing different ways of knowing and deepening our systems change practices. These conversations center people and perspectives from individuals working “on the edges” of the systems change field. It is an opportunity for candid conversation with time and space for listeners to contribute thoughts via chat and to be “handed the mic,” to ask questions or share reflections.
Launched in 2022, this series is hosted by Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia.
