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Cohort AssignmentHybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Lisbon, Winter-Spring 2025
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

After a busy professional career and a complete change of life after covid, I aspire to give more meaning to my actions and to be more useful to the people close to me locally.

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

In 2023 I created Alma& Mesa, an social enterprise and community of practice located in Belle ile en mer, a small island territory off the coast of Brittany. Totally dedicated to regenerative approaches, this project aims to make inhabitants less dependent on tourism and empower them on the themes of ecological and social transition to develop a prosperous and robust economy. I see my role as a catalyst and a connector to make this place shine and thrive.

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

--acquire the practical skills needed to develop the regenerative approach across the Belle ile island
-become an inspiring leader to support the paradigm shift and the changeover

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

-be more aware and aligned in my beliefs and actions
-be more comfortable with the regenerative way of thinking
-to be more connected with others, with Nature, with myself

5. And for professional growth?

I passed regenerative certifications
-Butterfly school -Axa Climate
-Tourism collab - regenerative business development journey
-The regenerative leadership journey

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

I invested 250K€ in the creation of Alma & mesa and all my current resources are dedicated to this project.
I definitely moved to Belle ile 2 years ago

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

bill morisson's Permaculture
Meadows report
Dianne Dredge
Arne Naess
Olivier Hamant
Philipe descola
Michel serres
Gilles hutchins
Daniel Christian Wahl
Ben Haggard
laura storm

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

I seek to create a world where human prosperity and the regeneration of the planet go hand in hand. I want to inspire, transform and be aligned with myself.

Date CreatedFebruary 6, 2025