Your NameMaeva Cabanis
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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?

I am 25, it has been only two years since I graduated. My primary work is my job at EURAKOM. We are a small french (remote) company working on international projects focused on tourism, sustainability and regeneration development.

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

I have a lot of different roles within the company, mainly operational tasks linked to the project development and completion. From community manager, organising events, public speaking in those events, to developing comprehensive teaching resources, I am now evolving towards managing the projects myself.

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

My main goal is to have more concrete tangible results linked to these projects. For now, it has been a lot of formalities and administrative jobs that take away from the essence of what inspired these regeneration projects in the first place. Which also means I have a lot less motivation for them and for the job in general... Which is why I am glad to be participating in this course, which will hopefully re-inspire me 🙂

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

I want to learn how to articulate better my vision for life and the regenerative paradigm, in speaking or writing, so that I can convey it more easily around me, and be more confident about sharing this vision.

Right now my focus is really on my personal life as I have big life projects going on... (moving from my parents and self-converting a van to live in...). Eventually, I would like to start getting involved in other people's projects and businesses, in an organisation helping farmers or something like this, in order to have a bigger impact than just making my life go in (what I consider to be) the right direction.

5. And for professional growth?

I would like there to be less divide between my personal aspirations and my professional work.

I don't know yet how that will take shape.

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

I have learned to prioritise my intuition. I decided to go travel after studies that I did not feel aligned with at all. I spent a year traveling in south east asia which has been the most transformative period of my life. I have invested in spiritual/health practices daily such as meditation and yoga to help with my physical and mental wellbeing. I have learned to go my way, and not listen to what my family was expecting from me. And now I am here, slowly working on building my dream life on the road 🙂

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

I would say Thich Nhat Hahn for his incredible Buddhist teachings, Allan watts and Ram Dass for their amazing way to speak about the experience of life, and Eckart Tolle for learning about the ego, thoughts and the power of now.

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

Oh that is a hard question.
Shortly, I believe humans, and all beings, and nature, and the whole process of existence is "the Universe storytelling itself". I believe we are one big life energy force manifesting in infinite ways, through trillions of eyes, and that our sole purpose as humans has always been contemplation of existence, learning to love, and giving back to Earth what She offers us. This is why today, I don't see any other way to live my life than following the Regeneration paradigm. It just makes sense. Even if it is getting harder to follow every day.

Date CreatedFebruary 19, 2025