Systems Change: Personal Transformation for Systems Transformation
When I was 19 years old, I knew I was becoming a father, then 19 years ago, my first son, Ángel, was born.
It was a time of abundance in my life, an emerging family was being stablished between him, her mother and myself, I was receiving certain wealth, assetts and businesses from my family, buying a new house for the family, developing a career in the technology industry, etc.
I remember how happy, fulfilled and motivated I was, despite being so young and having to take on many responsilibites, I felt empowered by them and took on the challenge with great courage. It was a precious moment of joy and youth where I followed many of the values I grew up with in my family and in my country, Spain. My own parents were very young parents themselves and in my family my previous generations were entrepreneurs and hardworking in our family business, so I just followed.
Just 2 years before my son was born, my father and grandparents died within 2 years, so it was really a blank start of my life, for good oe not, I did´nt have any longer elders or parents to guide me on this journey. Many family discussions during the inheritance process made me take distance from the rest of my family and focus on my own life with my partner and our children.
At the age of 27 I had developed a succesful career in the financial technology industry and not very succesfully created 2 startups which I had to close and decided to move to Switzerland with my family.
Swiss life gave me space to reflect on my journey, through curiosity wanting to meet other millenial entrepreneurs I joined Sandbox community, started to meet many new friends that opened my eyes to other ways of seeing the world and helped me reflect on my own purpose.
It was a time of creativvity and introspection, and through introspection and inner space emotional turmoil emerged, and a crisis of meaning crystalized, unresolced emotions and not having the skills to navigate my own family dynamics led to a process where my partner and I decided to end our relationship after 11 years of family life together, she and our 3 children went back to Spain.
I left my job and, alone in Switzerland, fell in a profound depression, a new experience was raising for me, panic attacks, confusion and great suffering.
From one day to the next, I felt forced to detach from the beautiful family life I built during all my youth, and I was not happy any longer working in the Swiss financial industry, where I had a very well paid and stable job at UBS.
What followed was truly amazing, in such chaos, lots of curiosity and creativity arose, I read unceasingly about how mind and body experience suffering and emotions, empathy and compassion through the lens of science. Through looking at my own suffering, I started to pracrice meditation and compassion started to rise in my heart, clearing away for short moments the ocean of suffering I was submerrged in.
This experiences brought clarity on my wish to help others who might be suffering as much or more as I was doing, to alleviate their suffering and find a deeper, meaningful life. With my entrepreneurial genes, I started Empatica XR (today Optimal XR), leading the research and development of emerging technologies for self-awareness, empathy and compassion. I met and worked with brilliant minds and hearts in many fields of science, art, technology, business, coaching … created the first virtual reality experience to teach relational intelligence based on the enneagram, and organised in Madrid as Executive Director the International Summer Symposium “Virtual Reality as a Transformative Technology to Develop Empathy“, which led to the creation of the empathic Reactive Media Lab at the Spanish leading medicine faculty of University Autónoma of Madrid.
UAM empathic Reactive Media Lab´s research model
And the ideation of a new blockchain protocol to create a new economiy based in Human and Planetary development in harmonty with each other and the environment, the Prrof of Love and Human Token.
And the creation of new community models for personal and professional development that are based in social art and compassionate awareness with the launch of the Humix Foundation during the Berlin Art Week.
Speaking at the Humix Convention during the Berlin Art Week
All this happened within just 2 years, it was incredible. By the end of 2018 I joined a leadership retreat where I was properly introduced to Dharma teachings, the book 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, the foundational practices of pure altruism, edited by HE Garchen Rinpoche was gifted to me, and I had the most powerful experience of compassion I ever encountered.
It was so transformative and clear that I realised how precious and profound Dharma teachings and practices are, and my focus shifted completely from entrepreneurship, emerging science and technology to bridge and ground it in Ancient Wisdom and Dharma.
In 2020, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, I launched Wisdom Health, a non-profit to redefine everything I was doing until then, to anchor my values and those driving innovation, leadership, economy, science, technology, art, business and impact through the lens of Wisdom Health.
Wisdom Health luanch in 2020, during the World Economic Forum week
In Ayurveda, a system to undertand spirit, mind and body discovered by the Vedas around 5000 years ago in India, it was written, that any time not invested in Wisdom and Health, its a waste of time.
Wisdom Health is an invitation to redefine, or better explained, to restore, the pure values that are living in our hearts, in coherence with a clear and awakened mind. An invitation to invest our energy, time and resources in Wisdom and Health.
Wisdom + Health = Wealth
New models of Wealth and economic development through the constant process of transformation of old concepts that are no longer serving the protection of life on Earth and consciousness evolution.
Since then, thousands have benefitted through dozens of retreats, events and programs for leaders and for everybody, both online and offline in 4 different countries where we teach Wisdom, Compassion, Health and Wellbeing and we explore the redefinition of leaderhip and economy.
Through our own transformation, is how are being transformed the systems we are part of, systems change at community level.
Our community is growing every day with more a more consicous and compassionate leaders and my wish is slowly unfolding to, humbly in service, create together a more peaceful and prosperous world.
Join our next retreat in Bali, Bodhisattva Warriors, next December, can´t wait to meet you and transform together.
Use the code Community to obtain a 10% discount in your ticket, only valid until September 30th.
