#4 - Renee Martyna talks about “Knowmadic” Communities.
Renée Martyna, the co-founder of the therapeutic social enterprise and community, Intra, has been a serial-social-innovator and facilitator offering psychosocial support to changemakers and social service workers for over twenty years.
She began her life overseas as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar studying Islamic Feminism in the Middle East. She later earned a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Canada.
She has trained in integrative arts like yoga and meditation, and well as transformative communication and she holds fellowships in Social Innovation and Social Enterprise. She recently completed a 240-hour graduate-level training for mental health professionals in Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Maté, a leading authority on addiction recovery, trauma, and the scientific connection between mental, emotional and physical health.
After spending 10 years working for the United Nations as a Gender and Human Rights Advisor in countries like Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Cambodia before burning out and a breakthrough that took her and her family to Bali.
Intra was born out of her own journey of recovery, a journey that led her to explore psychology, trauma, neuroscience, and the healing arts.
Her desire to share this with others initially led her to help co-create HUbud in Bali, the world's first non-urban community co-working space.
This is where she designed and delivered programs to foster a new way of living, working and learning in the new, 'knowmadic', economy, where measuring success puts people, passion and the planet on par with profit and productivity.
She is the lead content creator for Intra as well as the chief curator of Asia's largest conference on community building, CU Asia.
Renée brings her longstanding interest in trauma as a source for personal, professional and systemic transformation as well as her special interest in community building to all of Intra's curriculum.
On this episode of Dear Wise Earth: Talks we discuss plans by Renee to develop a place in Bali on an area of land with a very special association with systems thinker, Buckminster Fuller.
