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Claudio Gomes
I was born in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil during the dictatorship of the 60s & 70s. During those years while a lot of freedoms were curbed, there was an enormous amount of culture being promoted, particularly music and dance, which shaped my moral education and values.
In the early 90s after graduating as a Production Engineer and in my mid 20’s, I quickly rose to a managerial position in IT. Soon, I realized that I had plenty technical skills and creativity but lacked social skills to manage others and started looking for ways to understand the hidden language of emotions. Unsurprisingly this took me into dancing. I continued into a successful IT career completing an MBA in IT management, moving to Australia in 2002 and in 2017 retired as Head of IT of the world’s 5th largest pharmaceutical company. Not long after my formal retirement I was invited to work as a coach senior executives in the Federal government in Canberra. I truly love work with senior executives because it keeps me in touch with the huge organizational challenges of a post-pandemic, AI dominated world.
As for the other side my other brain, movement and dancing, specially Biodanza, has been an integral part of my development as a human being. It was the supporting system behind every main big decision I took in my life since the early 90s. Classes, workshops and congresses put me in contact with extraordinary courageous people who remind me of what is to be human and joyful in life. When I see a person move, I see the whole beauty and complexity of the human spirit in action – not just in words or titles.
Today I see myself as a secular humanist. I rely on science, reason and art to understand the world, rather than on revelation or the supernatural. I believe humans are wonderful evolutionary creatures which, given proper conditions, are all able to live a fulfilling collective life with individual agency.
In this context, my mission is to learn, to share and to grow my understanding of myself, the people and the Nature around me.
I was born in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil during the dictatorship of the 60s & 70s. During those years while a lot of freedoms were curbed, there was an enormous amount of culture being promoted, particularly music and dance, which shaped my moral education and values.
In the early 90s after graduating as a Production Engineer and in my mid 20’s, I quickly rose to a managerial position in IT. Soon, I realized that I had plenty technical skills and creativity but lacked social skills to manage others and started looking for ways to understand the hidden language of emotions. Unsurprisingly this took me into dancing. I continued into a successful IT career completing an MBA in IT management, moving to Australia in 2002 and in 2017 retired as Head of IT of the world’s 5th largest pharmaceutical company. Not long after my formal retirement I was invited to work as a coach senior executives in the Federal government in Canberra. I truly love work with senior executives because it keeps me in touch with the huge organizational challenges of a post-pandemic, AI dominated world.
As for the other side my other brain, movement and dancing, specially Biodanza, has been an integral part of my development as a human being. It was the supporting system behind every main big decision I took in my life since the early 90s. Classes, workshops and congresses put me in contact with extraordinary courageous people who remind me of what is to be human and joyful in life. When I see a person move, I see the whole beauty and complexity of the human spirit in action – not just in words or titles.
Today I see myself as a secular humanist. I rely on science, reason and art to understand the world, rather than on revelation or the supernatural. I believe humans are wonderful evolutionary creatures which, given proper conditions, are all able to live a fulfilling collective life with individual agency.
In this context, my mission is to learn, to share and to grow my understanding of myself, the people and the Nature around me.
Kate Clement
I enjoy the dynamic, creative challenge of working with groups and designing processes that enable people to connect with deeper wisdom and greater visions for themselves and their impact. I worked as a consultant and communications and facilitation specialist for 15 years in South Africa with government, not for profit and donor organisations in the development sector.
I am trained in CoResolve and Lewis Deep Democracy. I work as a coach and biocentric facilitator in Canberra with senior executives through Yellow Edge and PEP. I also train Biodanza facilitators and host weekly groups, retreats and workshops.
Testimonials
“Kate’s talent ranges from the deep insights she shares when facilitating, the authenticity she shows in the magnificent depth of her communication to “the incredible lightness of being” that comes from her range of emotional, physical and intellectual offerings. Kates ability to read herself and the room ensures the appropriateness of her communication to match her audience/pupils/delegates. .” Stephen Buchalter – Make every Watt Count
What’s her movement story?
Kate has been working as a dance and human movement teacher for 20 years and as a trainer of movement teachers for 8 years. She has worked with movement and dance with groups from executive teams in boardrooms in the Philippines to teenagers in social projects in South Africa. She believes in the power of dance to unlock our human potential for joy, creativity and expression and has seen this in hundreds of people over the years that she has worked with human movement.
I practice Biodanza and biocentric methods because they invite me to keep unfolding into deeper connections within and with others and life. Biocentrica is a way for me to keep learning, sharing and growing with people by putting life at the centre. I believe that this connection is essential if we are to care for each other and life on this planet together.