Hello!

 

I am a woman who, in her deep commitment to doing her part for a better world, unintentionally became a reference. I organised two TEDx events in Pará, was invited and sponsored twice by TED to attend their international conferences, led a team of 24 reporters to cover nine countries in the Pan-Amazon, worked for international NGOs such as Greenpeace and Amazon Watch, and for my work, I was cited in academic publications, reports, and books both in and outside of Brazil. This intense dedication led to a severe, trauma-laden burnout in 2012. This condition forced me to pause and radically slow down what, until then, had been my main motivation in life: taking care of the Amazon rainforest and protecting it through the environmental journalism I practised.
 

Throughout 11 years of transition and recovery, I remained active: I sought new paths in communication that were more inspiring and loving, specialised in Deep Ecology, became a mentor trained by Brazilian expert Paula Abreu, was invited by Satish Kumar to pursue a master's in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, England, where Stephan Harding was my supervisor, completed training in The Work That Reconnects in California with Joanna Macy, founded the Reconexão Amazônia movement, and gave talks and lessons on my experiences and learnings from the forest in five countries.
 

I made Australia my home for five years, where I studied with the deep ecologist John Seed, supported changemakers, worked in environmental communication, wrote articles, led a national activism campaign for the Amazon, learned deeply from Australian Indigenous peoples to the point of being considered family by a Jaithmathang elder, helped raise funds to protect the Daintree, the world’s oldest rainforest, through the Rainforest 4 Foundation, and became a collaborator of the Australia Earth Laws Alliance, which promotes the rights of nature. Finally, I led a pioneering project at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where I developed a methodology based on Deep Ecology with the aim of uniting the small community of Falls Creek, in the Australian Alps, around climate adaptation and economic sustainability.
 

Recently, I published my first book, called CHANGEMAKERS: The Courage to Transform the World, with Bambual Editora. Currently, I use all my experience as a Deep Ecology specialist and communicator to support initiatives, projects, companies, and organisations that have planetary regeneration as a value, intention, and principle. Through my Wings and Roots mentorship program, my support also extends to visionary changemakers—people who know that the future can be much better because they have the vision, passion, strategy, and determination to materialise a new and absolutely necessary reality.
 

I believe that the great transition to the better world we hope for lies in

uniting information with inspiration, feeling with thinking. It is also a fundamental part of the journey to be creative in introducing emotional connection with the Earth into all aspects of sustainability, in order to awaken deep respect and reverence for her on a critical mass level.

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Now more than ever, we must help one another, invest in changemakers, and plant many, many trees.
 

We are the ones we have been waiting for.