In Bogotá, Colombia, mundo común and its co-founder Isabel Cavelier Adarve are showing a deeper way forward, where restoring relationships with land, each other, and our shared future becomes both a care practice and a strategy for action.
Their work isn’t just about projects, ecosystems, or policy. It’s about reshaping how we see the world, and how we understand our own human identity as part of it. mundo común’s story is a powerful reminder of what’s possible when when care and willpower meet in collective action, and demonstrates what Daughters for Earth seeks to uplift.
mundo común is a regenerative practice that cultivates encounters and places, through narratives and experiences, that invite people into an expanded relationship with the living world. Rather than focusing narrowly on technical solutions, their team works upstream, exploring the root causes of how we have become so separated from nature, each other, and a shared future.
Isabel Cavelier, a Colombian writer, former diplomat, educator, and Climate Breakthrough Award recipient, has long championed new ways of approaching environmental action. With her deep experience, she launched mundo común along with Lina Herrera, designer and contemporary dancer, with the conviction that real change starts with attending to the stories we tell and embodying care in awareness of the living web that sustains us. This approach asks participants to engage beyond their rational minds, to an understanding of place, others, and self.
mundo común’s work focuses on the design of cultural-change infrastructures, such as “Interspecies Activations” – programs designed to cultivate our capacity for world-making practice in collaboration with the more-than-human. Also, “Somatic-Narratives” and “SoNidos Terrestres” — invitations to watch, listen, read, and embody stories of Earth’s wisdom and the brightness of human spirit. All of their work invites others to cross six thresholds for planetary transition: i) cultivating new understandings of the polycrisis, ii) restoring kinship between humans and other life forms, iii) nurturing a sense of world-making agency in community, iv) rooting ourselves in the body´s intelligences as a technology for interconnectedness and intraconnection of all life, v) cultivating fertile grief and celebrating joy, and vi) honoring the sacred and the invisible.
As Isabel puts it, the work is about creating a “common world” (in Spanish, mundo común) together, not inheriting one already made. This starts from the steady, patient and loving action that weaves threads of affection and resilience –the heart of mundo común’s practice.
This work aligns with what Daughters for Earth has seen in our research: that real, long-lasting stewardship begins when people feel deeply connected — not only to ecosystems, but to each other. When connection precedes action, efforts become sustainable, rooted in belonging rather than obligation.
At a time when many feel overwhelmed by cycles of crisis, mundo común’s work reminds us that care and regeneration come through connection, narrative, and staying present — not through avoidance. It’s a powerful example of how women are once again leading transformative approaches that weave together insight, experience, and a shared commitment to all life.
If this story resonates, consider exploring more of mundo común’s diverse streams of work and sharing it with someone who might also be inspired.
Mundo Común is a Charm Community member alongside other organizations supported by Daughters for Earth.