Mauricio Aldana
My blogs
- David Whyte Deambula Los Andes
- Lifelong Learning
- Los pasos de una mente soberana
- Recorridos Estoicos
- Colombian Spanish
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Tutor/Facilitator/Coach |
| Location | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Introduction | I am an experiment in progress. I love swimming in the ocean of ideas people share in the infosphere.I have been an English language facilitator and coach for twenty five years now. I have a bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and a Master’s degree in Literature. I am a certified online course developer. I'm also a freelance learning technology consultant, writer and teacher trainer. I currently teach Autonomous Learning, Communication Theory, and How to Teach Spanish as a Foreign Language at Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana UNICA. |
| Interests | science, philosophy, astronomy, neurology, psychology, mindfulness meditation, traditional stoicism, music, literature, poetry, drawing, juggling, writing, brazilian jiu jitsu and the list goes on just like life... |
| Favorite Movies | ghost in the shell, akira, evangelion, lain, abre los ojos, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, david lynch, solaris, dead man, thumbsucker, the holy mountain, black cat white cat, gummo, stranger than fiction, into the wild, waking life, enter the void, god bless america, her, mind game, the matrix, inception, Wheel of Time, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Encounters at the End of the World, Lessons of Darkness |
| Favorite Music | deftones, soulfly, cinephile, lamb, our broken garden, portishead, tom waits, bjork, pearl jam, primus, pink floyd, janis joplin, sick of it all, shiva chandra, alice in chains, scott kelly, steve von till, neurosis, god is an astronaut, rosetta, team sleep, boards of canada, russian circles, isis, mogwai, explosions in the sky, sigur rós, isis, soda stereo, gustavo cerati, crosses, inventions, aphex twin, the great stone, stars of the lid, 1200 micrograms, dead combo, slowest runner in all the world, the libertines, dirty pretty things, mumford and sons, jose gonzalez, hatebreed |
| Favorite Books | How the Brain Learns, Use your Brain for a Change, How to think about Weird Things, lobo estepario, la masmedula, a brave new world, quantum psychology, desgarradura, las flores del mal, una temporada en el infierno, unweaving the rainbow, amusing ourselves to death, email to the universe, future shock, the element, the ascent of man, la mente nueva del emperador, chaos, prometheus rising, voice of the fire, pronoia, right where you are sitting now, food of the gods, the invisible landscape, the spell of the sensuous, the natural history of the senses, deep play, ex libris, the storytelling animal, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Pathways to Bliss, Becoming Animal, The Singularity is Near, This Explains Everything, The Daily Stoic, The Obstacle is the Way, Cosmos and Psyche, Meditations, Tools of Titans, Techgnosis, Ego is the Enemy, The Denial of Death, The Road Less Travelled |