Gioel is the Director of Research at Recrear and has over 12 years of experience in designing and implementing action research projects all over the world. She is a passionate blogger, writer and storyteller. She is an experienced facilitator and loves mixing and experimenting with a range of creative techniques.

She is now a fellow member of the community El Juego .

(3:01) Research as horizontal learning

(4:48) Turning her passion into actual job

(6:09) "La utopía hay que caminarla", you need to walk towards your dream.

(6:54) What really passionate people do

(7:21) Crisis after getting the PhD, the importance of rituals

(8:55) What Gio learned in El Juego

(10:01) What is to accompany someone in their process?

(11:30) poetry can paint what we are feeling that is undescribable

(12:26) Gio attempting to explain quantum physics

(14:00) What happens when we are in a process circle

(16:29) Research is recognizing knowledge that already exists

(17:06) Creating knowledge with others, what we do in El Juego

(18:18) Collective intention

(21:37) Appreciating the present moment

(23:05) Gioel's research in Cuba

(24:42) Living in contact with nature

(29:50) The illusion of division between man and nature.

(30:34) Meeting a galaxy in every person

(32:42) Our passion for storytelling, it's value in research

(33:41) The stories that we tell ourselves can be the beginning and end of our pain

(34:59) The power in changing your story

(36:21) Free writing as a way to listen to oneself

(41:00) Giole´s connection with bodies of water

(44:02) What would you say to your younger self?

(45:10) Curiosity as the spark to find your passion

(47:12) The illusion of freedom

(48:20) Living in community. To learn things that cannot be taught