We are delighted to welcome Bruna Kadletz, a visiting guest speaker from Brazil, to St Ethelburga’s Centre. Bruna is an Associate of St Ethelburga’s and an inspiring leader in the humanitarian field. She is the Founder and Co-Director of Círculos de Hospitalidade – Circles of Hospitality, a non-profit organisation based in Bruna’s home town of Florianopolis, Brazil, which serves over 14,000 refugees and people seeking sanctuary.
Bruna expresses an unusual lightness of touch in speaking of her work, and offers rare and thoughtful insights into the inner and outer dimensions of displacement.
Bruna’s talk on spiritual humanitarianism, inner awareness, and outer change will invite guests into a reflection on different dimensions of displacement and the qualities of resilience we need to undertake what is being asked of us in these difficult times. This evening offers a chance to explore profound questions and seek practical ways to align inner awareness with outward action.
Click here to watch Bruna speaking at our Conference, Bridging divides; loving Earth in 2023.
About Bruna Kadletz
Bruna is a facilitator, writer, public speaker and humanitarian activist. She holds an MSc in Sociology and Global Change from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with a focus on forced displacement and climate change. She has visited and worked with refugee communities in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Serbia, France, among other countries.
Bruna is the Founder and Director of Círculos de Hospitalidade – Circles of Hospitality, a Brazilian non-profit organisation whose work lies in regenerating a culture of peace and hospitality in times of polarisation and xenophobia against refugees and vulnerable immigrants. Over the past years, she has coordinated humanitarian responses and integration projects for refugee populations, supporting more than 14 thousand people. Through these projects, the organisation she chairs has worked in partnership and collaborated with UN Agencies, the Brazilian Government, international foundations, and other non-profit organisations.
Bruna is also part of the teaching team at the Postgraduate Course in Psychology and Migration at PUC-Minas, in the Climate Crisis, Environmental Degradation and Forced Displacement discipline, and an associate at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, England. She is the author of the books “My land lives in me”, and “Hospitality, não hostility”.