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Do you

trust me?

A Group relations approach to the socio ecological dilemmas in the Peruvian Amazons: An invitation to learn from the experience of leadership, accountability and love in order to promote a spirit of enquiry for a sustainable transformation in the Amazons’.

Mónica Velarde

Lucia Abugattás

The

Context

Trust

help

confide

comfort

consolation

Initiatives of young indigenous students

who are willing to transform their

realities, exploring new spaces and

forming alliances with other ethnic or

mixed raced groups.

The

Programme

-Accompany OEPIAP & CuRUINSI members to discover new ways of taking up their roles with leadership and authority

- empower participants to recognize their aspirations and exercise control over their own institutions, ways of life and economic development and to maintain and develop their identities’, languages and religions.

-Enable young amazonas leaders to become entrepreneurs based in ther own culture

-learn from the complex dynamics associated with working alongside native communities, for cultural and ecological sustainability

-contribute to the development of the field of Corporative Social responsibility

-Study this process through

action research

The approach is both exploratory and emergent

Focus of the community and the way it relates to the environment.

Clusters of activities:

Scoping, GR incubators conferences, coaching, action learning sets, intercultural dialogue events & dissemination of learning in the field of CSR and research report.

Consultants work diagnostically

Our timeline

The first Hope for the

Amazonas Conference

Sponsors

Primary

Task

in order to promote a spirit of enquiry for a sustainable transformation of the Amazonas

Participants

Conference

Schedule

Conference sessions

Learnings

& conclusions

CSR

CSR by itself is a "TREND", a field deeply linked to sustainability that requires systemic thinking, accountability, love and leadership

GR contributes by introducing systemic thinking and accountability at the core the exploration of "identity" offering a mirror for organisations to explore the purpose of their actions and their ecological, spiritual and psychological impact

Working fully and effectively

CSR could Develope :

-capacities

-clarify purpose

- explore meaning

- discearn values

- integrate healing

Group relations

framework

how we take up our roles in a specific context

sense of awareness & accountability

Rationale of the Design

-Open systems theory- (Von Bertalanfy, 1950; Emery, F 1969, 1981)

-System Psychodynamics- (Rice, 1958, 1963, 1965; Miller& Rice, 1967; Miller, 1997b)

-Body, mind and spirit tradition influence into GR. Working with the systems Essencial purpose & Primary task- (Ostroff, S, 2006)

-African concept of Ubuntu "I am who I am because of who we all are"

-Blue Ocean Theory- (Kim and Mauborgne, 2005)

-Entrepreneureal approach to Group Relations:"dreamers who do" (Pinchot, 1985) & (Morris and Kuratko, 2002).

-Place of aesthetics : transverbal elements, meditation, music, artistic expression.

-ISO 2600 (sustainable development) & GRI

Accountability

Learn from the experience

leadership

Love

A team of 11 volunteers consultants invited by the conference director to serve in specific staff roles in the conference management.

47 members of OEPIAP + 7 of their university friends (“mestizos”). Member role

Up to 13 diverse (inter)national participants from different organisations.

Members'role. Only 1 came due to Dengue crisis

Group of online Group Relations consultants from Holland, Peru, UK and USA who contributed to fundraising activities in Peru, Amsterdam and USA and who shared online dreams

The conference experience

Challenges

Primary task& essential purpose

Participants'

achievements

leadership

love

spirit of

enquiry

-Fundraising

-Dengue crisis

-Staff Composition

-Authorization for work

-Facebook Kilcher attack

-Mambe de coca

-SSE "nomade participant"

-Animals in the here & now

- The dynamics of the"Mestizos"

-Building the "trust bridge"

-Ayahuasca ceremony

accountability

-Transformations within the conference

-Curuinsi's award "Protagonistas del cambio"

-Maloca intercultural

-Online dialogues and forums

Staff &

directorate Meetings

"Owning our own" dynamics of distrust as persons in role, as a team towards Group relations methodology towards validy for CSR

Meditation

withold interpretation and work phenomenologically

Plenary Sessions

Entry, Negotiation

& Contracting

reconsider and explore the nature of boundaries

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(cc) photo by medhead on Flickr

-Comprise of the total conference membership.

-These sessions introduced the nature of the events and contributed to their co-design

- Field visit to the OEPIAP community and a re-confirmation of OEPIAP’s authorization for work

- General Staff meetings were designed for staff members to work individually and collectively towards taking up their conference roles. In this meeting we explored the conference structure and its culture, paying attention to the emergent dynamics, exploring meaning and preparing for further work.

-Three different team staff meetings: Social Sensing Matrix consultants, Small Study Group consultants, Communication and Coordination of Resources team.

-.Post-conference staff meeting, aim to reflect on the conference experience and to elaborate on methodological and research aspects of the work.

- Directorate meetings: The Conference Directorate comprised representatives of each sponsor institution and Paul McCauley as authorized representative of the OEPIAP community. The directorate was responsible for the ultimate containment of the conference; in addition the final Directorate meeting included the OEPIAP leadership structure (Junta Directiva)

- Internal professional development sessions were designed within the staff meetings in response to the conference’s emergent process.

-Space for contemplation

-All participants

-First sessions led by director,

once the Intercommunity event started, participants could announced themselves as leaders of the session in terms of "first come first served bases"

- inclusion of Mestizos

-First test of trust: Q'Orianka Kilcher

-The "Tavistó" is coming

-The medicine plants & websites

-The "do you trust me?"

-The payment/gifts

ARTE

-In Review mode, members had opportunities to review and reflect on the meaning of their experiences of the various roles they took or found themselves in within the conference. In Application mode, members had opportunities to relate these experiences to the roles they hold within their communities and in their relationships with Peruvian society, back-home tribes and the different political organizations they were involved with. The members of the ARTEs worked with a staff consultant.

-Richness of Systems in the Mind's (SIM), after the participants ceremony the richness of their SIMs increased arriving to the exploration of collective representations and different ways in which to understand and take action on their different roles

Small Study Group

Inter-Community

event

Social Sensing

matrix

Faith, belief and

spirituallity event (FB&S)

-Curiosity

-Response of participants towards consultants

-Bits and pieces

-Dreams & cultural traditions

-Letting go

-Time/ system-as-a-whole concept

-Dreams as vehicles of learnings, holders of personal and social meaning and carriers of ancestral wisdom. The spirits of plants and animals are revealed through dreams.

-Dream consultation (medicine plants)

-Animals and the collective unconcious.

-Camaleon vs dog

-Trust/distrust

-Monkey brings out the darkest side "coup d'état"

-Exploration of trust: dengue situation

-Territories and trees

-University visit dynamics

-FBS Incorporation of the spiritual council (Junta asks for them to keep working)

-Open and shared management (mestizos inclusion/learning ownership and sustainability)

-Ayahuasca Ceremony ("we have shared our medicines"

-Space to learn from experience beyond traditional representations of FB&S

-They buil mode of representation (subsystem & sytem-as-a whole) that guide the exploration of their different F,B&S (2 mestizos + 2 indigenous). They nominated it "Spiritual Council"

-Junta Directiva requested the elective body to work on regular basis as their Spiritual Council

The Ceremony

Native communities have a hard

time trusting political and social

structures in the country and beyond.

- During the ICE the Junta decided to create an intercultural ceremony led by the sharmans of their different tribes. They decided to do this to discearn the future of their learning investment (contracting gifts). This was planned for the night before the end of the conference.

- Participants invited the staff to join the event raising interesting ethical dilemmas and challenges.

- The staff join the event in different levels of participation (from active participant to observer)

-The ceremony is considered as a last test of trust. At the end the Chief approach the Director and said: "Now we know this is a real encounter between cultures, we have taken your medicine and you have taken ours. Now we now you are not just one more western attempt to tell us how to leave our lives. This was the first act of ownerships of participants that have now created a learning centre including Tavistock principles for management (shared and public management) and reconnecting Political and Spiritual Leadership as it was part of their ancient traditions.

Government favors investors

and national and international

power groups to take over the resources (oil,gold, plants, etc)

Natural resources of the

Amazons are known to be vast

and very rich, but not everlasting.

“The willingness of the party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the trust, irrespective of the ability to monitor or control that other party” (Mayer, 1995)

Dengue Crisis:

danger

Crisis

Due to the dengue spread, the government declared Iquitos state of emergency. Hanley & Weaver, 2010. Due to the dengue spread, the government declared Iquitos in state of emergency. In 2011, 20 people died and 22 thousand were infected in Loreto, Peru 2011. (National Minister of Health, October 2011)

Opportunity

Oepiap

Community

OEPIAP = Student Organization of Indigenous People of the peruvian Amazon

some of their struggles

-To find their role between modern society and native communities

- to discearn the type of leadership that is expected from them.

-Academic exigency doesnt take on account communities background context

-communities at Risk of falling into destructive behaviour

-while They're all labeld as "indigenas" when they come from different cultures and tribes some of them with ancestral rivalries.

Thank you

Our methodology

Our Purpose

Our programme works in alignment with the C169 International indigenous law aiming to: empower, create structure, promote efficient decision making process, assess the social, spiritual, cultural and environmental impact of development in their lives.

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