Vision East Timor
After having completed higher school education, Danilo commenced an Arts Degree at Monash University in Melbourne. During this period he was selected as a Youth Ambassador for his country and was trained under the tutelage of Nobel Prize recipient José Ramos-Horta through the Diplomacy Training Program. Then he embarked on a lobbying and public speaking tour of the United Nations in New York, the Congress and the Senate in Washington, and various universities throughout the United States. He returned to Australia and began a career in drama alongside work in the hospitality industry. After the dramatic and devastating events of the post-referendum period of 1999, he travelled to East Timor to contribute in any way possible to the rebuilding of his country, working for OCHA (Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs) and the UN.
Vision East Timor
"Vision East Timor is about healing wounds, opening up hearts and minds, listening to our past, considering where we are standing now and envisioning our future together." The purpose of Vision East Timor is to envision and contribute to the re-building of East Timor following a 25-year struggle for independence, in which over 200,000 people were killed, and the more recent conflicts of both 1999 and 2006 which have left hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Over 30 years of conflict has traumatized the population and has shredded the social fabric of East Timor. The country will only be able to envision a 'new future' when leaders from different organizations, sectors and factions can cultivate their capacity to work together to ask themselves "What will East Timor look like in the year 2050?"
Vision East Timor will bring together 35 top leaders from all sectors of East Timorese society. These stakeholders will include cabinet ministers, businesspeople, clergy members, district administrators, tribal chiefs, educators, youth, women's organizations, artists, health professionals, judicial authorities, political leaders, army generals, former guerrillas, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Vision East Timor will model successful multi-stakeholder dialog and action processes applied in the Mont Fleur scenarios of South Africa and Vision Guatemala. The project is based on methods for deep innovation that have been developed and applied over the last 20 years. It represents the best theory and practice in leadership development, scenario planning, and multi-stakeholder problem solving.
Vision East Timor is currently in dialog with Xanana Gusmão, Josè Ramos-Horta, and Bishop Basilio Nascimento regarding their support as Executive Champions of the project.
Vision East Timor is entering a 12-month preliminary design phase in which the 35 key participants will be determined through Generative Dialog Interviews. During this phase, a secretariat will also be established and facilitators will be identified: a learning historian, logistics support, translator and hosts will be selected, and major funding sources will be identified.
To this point Vision East Timor is seeking financial and other support to enter into the preliminary design phase.
After having completed higher school education, Danilo commenced an Arts Degree at Monash University in Melbourne. During this period he was selected as a Youth Ambassador for his country and was trained under the tutelage of Nobel Prize recipient José Ramos-Horta through the Diplomacy Training Program. Then he embarked on a lobbying and public speaking tour of the United Nations in New York, the Congress and the Senate in Washington, and various universities throughout the United States. He returned to Australia and began a career in drama alongside work in the hospitality industry. After the dramatic and devastating events of the post-referendum period of 1999, he travelled to East Timor to contribute in any way possible to the rebuilding of his country, working for OCHA (Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs) and the UN.
Vision East Timor
"Vision East Timor is about healing wounds, opening up hearts and minds, listening to our past, considering where we are standing now and envisioning our future together." The purpose of Vision East Timor is to envision and contribute to the re-building of East Timor following a 25-year struggle for independence, in which over 200,000 people were killed, and the more recent conflicts of both 1999 and 2006 which have left hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Over 30 years of conflict has traumatized the population and has shredded the social fabric of East Timor. The country will only be able to envision a 'new future' when leaders from different organizations, sectors and factions can cultivate their capacity to work together to ask themselves "What will East Timor look like in the year 2050?"
Vision East Timor will bring together 35 top leaders from all sectors of East Timorese society. These stakeholders will include cabinet ministers, businesspeople, clergy members, district administrators, tribal chiefs, educators, youth, women's organizations, artists, health professionals, judicial authorities, political leaders, army generals, former guerrillas, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Vision East Timor will model successful multi-stakeholder dialog and action processes applied in the Mont Fleur scenarios of South Africa and Vision Guatemala. The project is based on methods for deep innovation that have been developed and applied over the last 20 years. It represents the best theory and practice in leadership development, scenario planning, and multi-stakeholder problem solving.
Vision East Timor is currently in dialog with Xanana Gusmão, Josè Ramos-Horta, and Bishop Basilio Nascimento regarding their support as Executive Champions of the project.
Vision East Timor is entering a 12-month preliminary design phase in which the 35 key participants will be determined through Generative Dialog Interviews. During this phase, a secretariat will also be established and facilitators will be identified: a learning historian, logistics support, translator and hosts will be selected, and major funding sources will be identified.
To this point Vision East Timor is seeking financial and other support to enter into the preliminary design phase.
