The Vortex Model - Insights

       What the world has been experiencing for the past year is what some call a "total social event", in the sense that it is shaking up all social relations and actors, institutions and values. Right now, the pandemic has taken us into a profound state of psychological and social entropy. And when the world around us changes and becomes uncertain, we have two paths: to sink into entropy or to emerge with a new equilibrium. A moment like this can be a turning point, an inaugural experience for humanity. My work in the humanitarian world has led me on several occasions to experience what a major natural disaster means, and the world it leaves in its wake. In those moments, during and also after, there is a lot of confusion. The most basic structures of society and community are shaken. We lose our reference points, we feel out of place, we face a new reality to adapt to. Dynamics and behaviors that we took for granted no longer apply, we do not know h...

I would like to start with a confession. During this crisis we are all currently living, a part of me has been secretly happy to hear how figures of affected people were increasing in some places. Of course my stronger feeling was an honest sadness and worrying. But, beneath this first layer, a part of me was accepting a great human suffering as a kind of worthy sacrifice, if this would actually help to decrease the power of certain leaders who are not, in my opinion, ruling and taking decisions based in empathy, social justice and human dignity. And maybe this could also help the so called awakening of our society. Maybe you mirror with what i am saying or you just think that I have a hidden monster. Maybe both thoughts are valid. But, leaving aside a pragmatic discussion about its actual worth or not, or even the moral discussion about which would have been my decision if I had the power to control those figures, this activated a warning in my consciousness. And I think acknowledge t...

Today is an important day Today is the only day I have Today I have you, I am present Today I was born along with dawn and I will die along with dusk Today I recognize myself and transform myself Today I am vulnerable, today I hug myself Today I accept and I am grateful for what it is Today I forgive, I forgive myself and I learn Today I commit with everyone and everything Today the house is my world, and each world is my home Today I am everywhere, and you all are here Today you are not without me, and I am not with any of you Today I go on, today we are