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Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
André Marques Chambel
André Marques Chambel is an artist and writer based in Portugal.
André Marques Chambel is an artist and writer based in Portugal exploring the intersection of spirituality, animism, storytelling and creative expression. They are currently researching the presence of the earth in the creative process, through a questioning of the purpose of humanity towards nature and a wandering through ideas of ancestry, otherness and vocation.
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Hedge work for the masculine: a participant's reflection
A participant reflection from the course re-storying masculinity. André Marques Chambel writes: "The hedge work is the deep work. The hedge work is to be held and to hold in turn. The hedge work is the opening of ways to the masculine, the way in which we root into safe and honourable environments."
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Fungi and promises of becoming: a participant's reflection
A participant reflection from advaya's Spiritual Ecology Study Club. André Marques Chambel writes: "To be some-one is to have a path laid in front of us, a clear path that leads us to collaboration and community, a destination which is to be seen less as an ending and more as a purposeful movement. That is what fungi teach, one of the things they can teach — there are many more to be uncovered. Maybe the start of this pilgrimage must start here: at the acceptance of what this kingdom has to offer, at being in conversation with others, other humans, other species, other kingdoms."
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Finding home and turning the self towards it
What is the weight of the principle of individualism, the story of our "self" as "one", disengaged and separate from the "other"? How can we re-late differently, through intergenerational narratives and stories of belonging to the land we find ourselves on? In this article, André Marques Chambel excavates new ways to move forward, to find ourselves whole again.
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The body that holds and reveals home: a participant's reflection
How are our bodies reflections of the homes from which we originate, openings to our ancestors, and lands? And how are they, looking forward, spaces for possibilities, opportunities for us to ask questions, and birth new potentials, creating other stories? André Marques Chambel reflects on these themes and questions, weaving insights from the course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves.
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The heart, keeper of the flames of being
When we tend to the flames of our own being, we honour our connection to the cosmos.