About

Welcome!

This is a place to exchange ideas, thoughts, feelings about whatever we feel it is relevant to share: some of the topics that you will find are:

inclusion
teaching & learning
new paradimgs
new economies
triple impact

Feel free to make comments and suggestions.

Enjoy it!!

My professional identity

From Uruguay, South America.

Architect, MA in TESOL. Areas of action research:inclusion, regeneration, new economies, curriculum development,evaluation and cultural transformation.

Founder and Director of 4D Lab

International and TED speaker – La educación nos incluye a todos

FIIS (Festival Internacional de Innovacion Social) Inclusion panel member, and speaker

Co-organizer of the Photography exhibition Detrás de una Mirada

Co-founder of ProEdu Educacion Inclusiva http://proeduinclusiva.org.uy/, in charge of supporting the inclusion of kids with disabilities in mainstream education, leading cultural transformation in educational institutions and of training teachers.

Co-founder of DAlliance/, which mission is to help people and organizations develop an authentic and sustainable inclusive culture.

Co-leading the Work Group of Inclusive Education and of the Alliance of Organizations for the Rights of People with Disabilities.

Co-President of Sistema B Uruguay

Former Member of the IATEFL Digital Committee (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) and of the IATEFL BESIG online team (Business English Special Interest Group)

Former member of the Academic Committee of Eduy21, a citizen initiative that promotes the transformation of the educational system in Uruguay towards quality and equitable education.

Writer for the the British Council and for many international magazines.

BUSINESS

4D Lab

We are a certified B corporation that fosters cultures of communication, cultures on inclusion, cultures of regeneration. Together with many other we are co-designing a new way of living together. We seek to create development opportunities for all persons in a collaborative environment while contributing to the transformation processes leading to an inclusive culture and communication.

Diversity & Inclusion
Communication through languages
Human Communication
Regenerative Development

My personal identity – video from 2010

V ID A – Personal Identity from Mercedes Viola on Vimeo.

My cultural identity – 2010

Photos

Flores y viento from Mercedes Viola on Vimeo.

Music: Cancion de Navidad – Serrat & Sabina

On my way to Cabo Polonio – 2013

Wind, breeze, spirit

2 thoughts on “About”

Hello Mercedes,

I’ve been reading your blog, which I found via your Twitter profile. I’ve very much enjoyed reading it and I wanted to get in touch. I hope you don’t mind me contacting you.

I work for Garnet Education, an ELT publisher in Reading. Though we specialise in EAP, we publish in a wide-variety of areas within ELT (e.g. Primary and Preschool, exam-prep materials, ESAP, Business English etc.). We would like to invite you to write a guest post for our blog (which you can see here: http://www.garneteducation.com/blog/). To date, a lot of the posts have been very product-focused, which is something I’d like to step back from. I feel our followers would really enjoy your writing and the way you integrate images and video into your posts.

If this is something you would like to pursue, the topic of the post would be up to you. I see you have a keen interest in Business English, so something along those lines would be good. I’d be happy to discuss ideas. You could even recycle a previous blog post of yours if easier. Posts are shared via our social media and newsletter.

Let me know if you think you might be interested. We’re flexible and would be happy to work around you. I realise you’ve probably got a lot on your plate though (including your own blog!), so don’t worry about saying no!

All the best,
Jessie