Fellow
Current Country
Peru 🇵🇪
Current City
Tacna
Intuition
Cultivating inner knowing
A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:
How my creativity can shine my inner light and color?
October 1, 2025
A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:
How do Latin American communities use art to create impact?
October 1, 2025
The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:
Creating Music/Art,Rest,Journaling
October 1, 2025
A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:
When I was using my Portuñol to communicate with street artists and listening to their stories. Exploring how they connected the arts with themselves and how arts can be used as a means to express a silent message/awakening to others.
October 1, 2025
A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:
When I noticed how Peruvian communities and Brazilian Northwestern communities suffered from the same problem of having access to quality education and public resources. :(
Those issues seem to just increase in scope everytime I think about how we could change those realities.
October 1, 2025
Courage
Aligning action
Assumptions I'm examining right now are:
Happiness,Impact,Leadership,Time/Attention
October 1, 2025
I originally assumed:
I used to think it was hard to reach strangers and that they wouldn't open themselves to me.
October 1, 2025
These assumptions are changing:
Now I sense that everyone has a story to tell, and not everyone has someone to listen to them. A simple hello can change someone's day.
October 1, 2025
A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:
Playing Just Dance in the middle of a crowd of people with my host! I would never dance because I never felt I was good at dancing to do it in public. Still, with lots of courage, I got to the stage, and I had so much fun! It was one of the best nights ever.
October 1, 2025
Compassion
Engaged Empathy
Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:
Letting myself be with them.
October 1, 2025
Digital Detox Retreat
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Gratitude
Peers I'm grateful for:
Douglas Teixeira de Queiroz Santos
I love your laugh! Thank you so much for making my experience in São Paulo the best I could ever wish for. I hope we can soon see each other again and exchange more contagious moments of happiness.
October 1, 2025
Marta Näripä
Thank you so much for noticing during our coaching sessions that I was a little bit distant. I was having a tough week because of my work, and it made me so happy to see that someone noticed and worried about me (I already said this to you, but I love to appreciate people so!) <3
September 1, 2025
Ivisson Souza Ribeiro
Thank you for always being so present and asking me about how I'm. That means a lot to me. <3
August 1, 2025
Peers who have expressed gratitude for me:
Fabrina da Silva Carvalho
Ruan, thank you for being you. I love being part of various communities with you, and I feel that our paths will cross even more often in this life.
October 11, 2025
Marta Näripä
Thanks for our call, Ruan! It was so nice and comforting to share our excitement with each other before starting our travels and just getting to know your cool funky sides and being able to share enthusiasm about boardgames with someone!
October 3, 2025
Lexi Bennett-Williams
Thank you for sharing your tips and thoughts on your travels in Peru so that I had some insight before coming! You seem so kind and I hope we can cross paths!
October 1, 2025
Anna Ufaeva
Thank you for our Python session, for opening up, for giving me a different perspective when I needed it so much!
September 30, 2025
John Makuei Bath Madut
A big shoutout to you, Ruan. I truly admire your love for humanity and your inspiring drive to create solutions for pressing social challenges, especially environmental issues, under the larger global threat of climate change.
September 30, 2025
Maimouna Yaye Amadou
Thank you for being there for me. To always check up and to make sure that everything is okay. Thank you to trust me enough to open up and share what you’re going through. You’re an amazing person and I can’t wait to see what you’re gonna achieve during your Launch Year and after
August 25, 2025
Magical Moments
Reminded of home
Tacna
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Sep 26, 2025
Seeing people dancing the Andian Yunza, I felt so nostalgic. Remembering how, in my childhood, I would always be excited to dance at the Quadrilhas in my city. Every time they would scream, "Hey!" while choreographing, I would immerse myself in the memories of the many times I would listen to "Balance!" and dance in the rhytim of Northeastern Forro.