Your NameSANDRA ELISA KUNRATH
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Cohort AssignmentHybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Lisbon, Fall-Winter 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

The burden on families that are working on land/agriculture these days makes me sick. I see, people doing their best, performing according to the resources, technology and knowledge they have. Animals are suffering, soil is being neglected, springs are drying, biodiversity is decreasing and people don´t understand what is happening and are deeply unhappy. My organic rural property is an oasis in the region I live. I’ve been studying and practicing things that are not the mainstream for 12 years. Last April I felt that it was not enough and decided to come back to city to raise funds and find a deeper way to provide methods. I accepted an invite to work for a company that might be open enough to bring about a project that ignites and supports this idea. That’s my focus now.

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

My role is to be one more, to sum up with everyone and some movements that are reframing life and its relation with Gaia, in a biological sense. I would like to inspire and be inspired from people that intend to nurture a close relationship with animals, plants, earth, water and sun. I want to never forget the impulse of being connected with earth and be able to sustain it day after day.

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

I would like to improve my understanding of financial opportunities to raise and direct funds for things that really matter and help them happen.

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

To boost my capability to stand my voice through a professional service in regard Planet Earth.

5. And for professional growth?

Is the same answer, because it’s my life. I see many sides in my life and, for me, personal and professional are intrinsic aspects.

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

A lot in terms of time, effort and money in the last 12 years. But it is the purpose of my life. This journey means that I’m walking, I’m in transit from the intellectual animal to became, perhaps, a real human being.

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

FIELDS: Veterinary Medicine, Ruminants, Animal Beeding, Ethology, Homeopathy, Homeopathy applied to Agriculture and Environment, Ecology, Medicine, Phytotherapy, Neural Therapy, Biological Medicine, Anthroposophy, Organic Production System, General Systems Theory, People inside Companies, Culture, Creativity, Innovation, Business.

SOME THINKERS: I’ve studied many concepts of life, agriculture and rural properties from Rudolf Steiner; organic standards and practices applied in my country; Ludwig von Bertalanffy with his General Systems Theory, Fritjof Capra on his Systems View of Life, James Lovelock and his Gaia Theory, Maturana and Varela and their Autopoiesis Concept. I have studied many books to visualize a different approach to medicine with Homeopaths Hahnemann, Hering, Kent, Vithoulkas, Yakir, Sankaran, attended courses of biological medicine from an amazing lineage of German Doctors. I've deeply learned Samael Aun Weor, H. Blavatsky, Krishnamurti and many others.

ACADEMIC STUDIES: Besides that, I’ve attended 2 Bachelors: Business Administrator and Veterinary Medicine. I’ve also a Master on Production Engineering when I studied Cultura, Creativity and Innovation in Brazilian Companies.

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

My main inspirational source comes from the Bible’s genesis book, but Kabbalah's Archetype and other sacred books and ideas have helped me to build my perspective. In very short sentences:

After everything was created, only then humanity was created, at the very end of creation.

Men and women, exactly as rocks, plants and animals are responsible to nurture and stabilise the planet in an interconnected web.

Humans have inside a small flame from the whole blaze. We belong to the whole, the whole is inside us.

Date CreatedAugust 26, 2024