Participants of the Wellness Congress of the Wellness Fest – Vilcabamba 2025

Workshop

Santiago Buitrón

Spanish

Based on solid academic training and territorial research, this workshop invites an experiential and reflective exploration of how personal, cultural, and collective experiences are inscribed in our bodies and our social memory. Through various dynamics, the workshop seeks to shed light on how memories, traumas, histories, and traditions manifest in our corporeality, affecting the way we relate to ourselves and our social environment.

The proposal invites us to reread shared memory and construct new ways of recognizing and healing these scars, thus promoting a holistic understanding of health that integrates both the physical and emotional and social dimensions.

Santiago Buitrón is a consultant and advisor with extensive experience in the cultural and heritage fields. He holds a PhD in Cultural Heritage from the University of Jaén (Spain) and a Master's degree in Education from Newport University (California, USA). He also holds a degree in Communication and Audiovisual Arts Production from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Ecuador.

He has played key roles as Regional Coordinator of the Awasqa Cultural Management Network, President of the Academic Committee, and creator and producer of the International Congress on Community Living Heritage and the "Runa Mashka" Festive Tourism Meeting in Ecuador.

He also serves as Communications Coordinator for the Critical Thinking Network on Cultural Heritage, a continental research organization sponsored by the University of La Plata (Argentina). With numerous publications on research, educational communication, gender, ancestral knowledge, sociocultural management, heritage, and museology, and experience in publishing business books, Santiago is a nationally and Ibero-American renowned speaker in areas such as education, communication, Andean worldview, cultural heritage, museology, organizational strengthening, and cultural development.