{"id":67,"date":"2025-04-25T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadows.today\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:57:21","slug":"founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meadows.today\/pt\/about\/founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundador"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MARIA CARBUNARU<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We are made out of seasons.”<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maria is a Romanian educator, anthropologist, improviser, and poet, creating trustworthy development experiences since 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Initially trained as an adventure education facilitator by <\/span>Outward Bound<\/a>, she facilitated development processes in nature for groups of adults and youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her MA in Communication Sciences and BA in Cultural Anthropology, she explored the impact of creative learning programs on community development. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She studied <\/span>Viola Spolin’s improvisation theater method<\/a> with coach Aretha Sills and graduated from her “Improvisation for Educators” class.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She is currently enrolled in the <\/span>Circle of Trust <\/span>facilitator preparation program at the Center for <\/span>Courage and Renewal<\/a>. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since 2020, she has been living in Portugal, with her partner, where she continues to train and write, after seven years of coordinating <\/span>Education Studio<\/a>, the organization she co-founded in Cluj, Romania..<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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No longer there but not yet here – the journey of relocation <\/strong>with Maria at Relocurious Podcast <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Interview on creative habits, poetry and improvisation <\/strong>with Maria at Trafika Europe Radio <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“A creative life is an amplified life.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maria is the former president and co-founder of Education Studio, a non-profit organisation in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, dedicated to empowering youth, adults, and communities through creative education. <\/span><\/p>\n

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She has coordinated the Studio since the beginnings in 2014, until 2020, when she took a leap of faith and started a new transformation journey, moving to Portugal. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“A group of people that can sing and play together can accomplish something even bigger together”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2019, she co-created a three-month program called “The Odyssey\u201d with the trainer Alexandru Mare. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Odyssey is a multidisciplinary journey taken from a mythological perspective, that puts different arts like spoken word poetry, improv theatre, embodiment, or visual arts in the service of personal discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2014, she created ACTitude, the first program of self-development through improvisation theatre in Cluj, which was nominated at the Romanian Civil Youth Society Awards in 2015 in the category \u201cBest Educational Program\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2018, she taught the first improvisation theatre workshops to students from the Law University in Yerevan, Armenia. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2020, during the pandemic, when the students in Addis Abeba couldn\u2019t follow university courses during COVID-19, she offered two online educational programs in partnership with AIESEC Ethiopia. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Meeting other cultures, and collaborating with people from different backgrounds is essential for growing into our full selves.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Since 2017, Maria has been offering intensive trainings, as a part of the international pool of trainers inside the Erasmus+ lifelong learning program of the European Union<\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

She co-facilitating with other European coaches, week-long training programs for youth workers, teachers, trainers, social workers, and community facilitators, .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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