Jerónimo Calderón – Affiliations

Cuencas Sagradas: I am an advisor and global commissioner of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, which is a multi-stakeholder initiative to permanently protect and regenerate 35 million hectares of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian Amazonas, home to 30 indigenous nations, by 2030. 

  • Payment. I currently don’t receive compensation for this work and am not getting paid for the time that I invest in LEAP.
  • Formal connection. My work at LEAP is not tied in any formal way to my involvement with Cuencas Sagradas.
  • Expectations and Perspectives. Cuencas Sagradas shares in principle LEAP’s analysis of the philanthropic sector and the needs for participatory approaches to funding systemic alternatives. They therefore may share common ground, but there is no actual or envisioned collaboration between the entities. There are no obvious conflicts of interest or overlaps in our organisational goals that I am aware of. There is one potential area of connection which is the emerging work on transforming philanthropy to sustainably invest in system transformation in the Amazon. 
  • Potential conflict of interest: pre-existing relationships. At Cuencas Sagradas we work closely with a network of unlikely allies from indigenous tribes to politicians to international diplomats to representatives of extractive industries to journalists and civil society at large. I might bring some of them to LEAP as participants and possible recipients of funding if appropriate. I might therefore perpetuate any selection bias we might have at Cuencas Sagradas and/or disadvantage groups we do not yet have a relationship with. However, I hope that the diversity of the LEAP community and of the Facilitation Group, as well as the participatory nature of funding decisions will provide insurance against this.

Amanitas: I am a co-explorer of the participatory artivist experiment Amanitas, which is a loose, self-organized mycelium of explorers of systems of power and influence beyond planned and incremental change. We believe the true art of [our] nature is radical collaboration and we are emerging from moist soil to co-create our future together.

  • Payment. I currently don’t receive compensation for this work and am not getting paid for the time that I invest in LEAP.
  • Formal connection. My work at LEAP is not tied in any formal way to my involvement with Amanitas.
  • Expectations and Perspectives. The same potential conflicts might emerge as mentioned for Cuencas Sagradas.
  • Potential conflict of interest: pre-existing relationships. At Amanitas we closely collaborate with a highly diverse network of unlikely allies of experimenters with system transformation. The same potential conflicts might emerge as mentioned for Cuencas Sagradas.

Comunidad Sariri: I am a a student and teacher at Comunidad Sariri, which is a South American community based in La Paz, Bolivia, that studies the Andean-Amazonian indigenous cosmovision of our ancestors.

  • Payment. I currently don’t receive compensation for this work and am not getting paid for the time that I invest in LEAP.
  • Formal connection. My work at LEAP is not tied in any formal way to my involvement with Comundiad Sariri.
  • Expectations and Perspectives. There are no obvious conflicts of interest or overlaps in our organisational goals that I am aware of.
  • Potential conflict of interest: pre-existing relationships. The same potential conflicts might emerge as mentioned for Cuencas Sagradas.

Sarsen: I currently sit on the Council of Sarsen, which aims at creating tipping points for change in the world by helping emergent leaders access integrated practices of inner work.

  • Payment. I currently don’t receive compensation for this work and am not getting paid for the time that I invest in LEAP.
  • Formal connection. My work at LEAP is not tied in any formal way to my involvement with Comundiad Sariri.
  • Expectations and Perspectives. There are no obvious conflicts of interest or overlaps in our organisational goals that I am aware of.
  • Potential conflict of interest: pre-existing relationships. The same potential conflicts might emerge as mentioned for Cuencas Sagradas.

In the past, it has been my honor to be invited to contribute as partner in crime to causes dear to my heart, such as catalysing collaboration in the social entrepreneurship eco-system (catalyst2030.net > founding member), building living laboratories in Costa Rica (braveearth.com > founding member), blending wellbeing with welldoing (www.wellbeing-project.org > First Cohort Participant and Co-Creator), embracing ancestral wisdom in the age of self-organization (NeoTribes > Co-Creator), empowering the next generation of changemakers (www.euforia.org > Co-Founder), preserving nature (www.wwf.ch > former Board Member) and Joseph Campbell’s legacy (www.jcf.org > former Board Member). More affiliations can be seen on my LinkedIn-profile and they all come with the potential conflict of interest related to pre-existing relationships.