About me
Aho, community!
I’m grateful you’ve made it here — and perhaps now you’re wondering: Who am I?
My name is Calebe de Roure. I grew up in Brasília and spent the last two decades abroad, moving between Europe and Australia. In what feels like a previous life, I worked as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Deutsche Bundesbank, and the Bank of England — a world where the mind reigns supreme and solutions are sought through logic, models, and ideas.
For many years, I believed that if I could just think hard enough — if I could find the perfect idea — I might help solve society’s problems. But life, in its patient way, began to teach me something different. Through cycles of striving, success, disillusionment, and reflection, I realized that wherever I went, challenges followed. And slowly, I understood that what we call “the world’s problems” are not external puzzles waiting for intellectual mastery. They are the collective echo of the inner challenges each of us carries.
The mind alone cannot heal what is unsettled in the heart or forgotten in the spirit.
This realization changed the course of my life. The first principle of permaculture suddenly made profound sense: it doesn’t matter how much money sits in a bank account — what matters is what the land can sustain. Everything comes from the earth, and everything returns to it. When I inherited this land, I understood I was not its owner but its custodian, called to build a relationship with it and to seek others who feel the same. Together, we can shape a more conscious and regenerative future.
I grew up in the home of a local politician and within a church community, so the question of how to live in harmony with Spirit and with one another has been with me since childhood. Today, I believe the path to a more harmonious world begins within. The world doesn’t change all at once. It changes one heart at a time. And when one person finds inner peace, it radiates outward, offering a path for others to follow gently.
I envision PlantaVida as a place where we gather to do the inner work in communion — a place where land, community, and Spirit support our becoming.
I hope your journey leads you here, or to wherever your inner path is calling you.
Namaste.
