Your NameSandra Mancilla Bustamante
Email Addresssanmancilla@gmail.com
Cohort AssignmentAmericas with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Guiding my kids in their development as human beings.

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

Being a guide, showing them through example.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

Aiming for congruency between what I think, what I say and what I do.

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

Sharing this way of life with a broader Community. Reaching more people.

5. And for professional growth?

Through Community Projects that deal with personal needs through focusing on using our natural resources in a conscious way, through understanding the importance of the process not so much the goal.

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

I have invested in myself.

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Through Architecture and Architects like Alvar Aalto, Luis Barragán, Oscar Hagermann, Louis Kahn and Mies van der Rohe to l philosophies like Tibetan Budhism, Yoga, passing through Anthroposophy and Rudolph Steiner and recently Maria Montessori through my kids education. Lately I have immersed myself in Permaculture through Dan Palmer reading from Bill Mollison and David Holmgreen, currently doing a PDC with Morag Gamble. Finally I have started reading Christopher Alexander, while practicing the teachings of Matthias Distefano and Eckhart Tolle.

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

We are Human Beings having a terrestrial experience, trying to re-member and re-connect to Source .

Date CreatedJanuary 22, 2024