In our Livable Future Investing workshops, we like to start with a question that gets people talking about the heartbreak. We feel it’s important to connect with this grief, pain, as a way of opening up our empathy muscle to begin to strengthen the bonds of community and kind of culture we’re trying to create. […]
One of the highlights of 2023 has been the on-going companionship with Cristina, Alex, Lalo, Alejandro, and others from Yomol A’tel — a Tseltal cooperative ecosystem we spent 6 weeks visiting in 2022 in Chiapas, Mexico. They are one of a large number of social enterprises that emerged from the Jesuit mission centers in Latin […]
With more than two years of anticipation, I was unsure what to expect. I think I was lowering my expectations so as not to be disappointed. But what I experienced today — the first day of the gathering — was full of surprises. Extraordinary Charisma + Track-record I noticed a Francisan cross on an African […]
I am very excited about the opportunity to present “Inversion en Futuros Vivibles” to the Mexican Institute for Catholic Social Teaching alongside a number of other cosponsor organizations: Citizen action against Poverty Union of Christian business leaders COPARMEX The Jesuit University in Mexico City‘s, Center for research on the social and Solidarity economy. CO_ capital […]
We’ve begun our synodal pilgrimage and our first encounter in Chiapas is exceeding expectations. We have been graced by solidarity and buen vivir and remarkable encounters with the Jesuits, Tseltal communities, and Yomol A’tel cooperatives and social businesses.
Tomorrow morning, I present at the Univesidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. It’s part of their Masters program in the “Creation and Development of Social and Solidarity Economy Businesses” – as part of the International Center for Research on the Social and Solidarity Economy -or CIIESS. I’m humbled to have gotten to know Alberto Irezabal the […]