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Festival Incluir para Crecer
2026 Edition
The Festival Incluir para Crecer begins to shape its 2026 edition, with activities that reinforce its commitment to fostering dialogue and practices toward inclusive economies.
Pre-event 2026
As part of the journey toward this new edition, a pre-event took place on the 22nd floor of the World Trade Center Montevideo Free Zone.
The meeting aimed to create a space for reflection on how companies and organizations can lead the shift toward more inclusive, diverse, and just cultures.
The event was designed following the Theory U methodology, developed by Otto Scharmer—an approach for leading profound change processes. It proposes that systemic transformation occurs when people and organizations pause, observe with openness (attention), connect with their deepest purpose (intention), and then act from that new place of awareness (agency).
“The power of attention is the real superpower of our time. Attention, when aligned with intention, can move mountains.”
Three panels were developed following this process, featuring representatives from the public sector, private sector, and civil society:
ATTENTION: Government Panel
Representatives from public institutions shared progress and challenges in building inclusive policies.
INTENTION: Partnerships Panel
Collaborative experiences between companies to drive change.
AGENCY: IN Seal Panel
Presentation and discussion around initiatives that promote recognition of inclusive practices.
Panelists
GOVERNMENT PANEL
IN SEAL PANEL
ALLIED COMPANIES PANEL
As part of our ongoing journey at the Festival Incluir para Crecer, we participated in the Ecosystem Leadership Program by the Presencing Institute in Mexico, where we carried out an activation that brought together people from around the world.
If you’d like to learn more about this experience, read the full article on our blog.
The festival aims to:
- Create a space for collective reflection and meaningful conversations that allow us to move toward an inclusive economy.
- Raise awareness about the value of diversity and the inclusion of all aspects of nature, including human nature, in various contexts.
- Foster inclusion through art, which serves as a vehicle for dialogue and a bridge between realities.
- Inspire collective and personal action grounded in awareness, with the conviction that everyone has the potential to be an agent of change.
An invitation to redesign the way we live together.
The Festival Agenda:
The Festival’s agenda is designed based on Theory U. Rooted in over two decades of action-research at MIT, this theory provides a conceptual and methodological framework that cultivates essential leadership capacities for personal, organizational, and social transformation grounded in awareness.
It integrates cutting-edge systems thinking, social innovation, presence, art, and transformation to address the root causes of today’s social, environmental, and ontological divides, shifting from an ego-system logic to an eco-system logic.
To learn more about Theory U, click here.
"Any action that harms the planet or does not respect the dignity of all people is not part of development."
With this Festival, we are contributing to the SDGs.
ODS 4
Inclusive, equitable, and quality education.
ODS 5
Gender Equality.
ODS 8
Decent work and inclusive, sustainable economic growth.
ODS 10
Reduction of inequalities.
ODS 16
Just, peaceful, and inclusive societies.
ODS 17
Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Team
Mercedes Viola
Manuela Da Silveira
Magdalena Cosco
Mercedes Cosco
Maria Viola
Valentina Bidart
Marcela Queirolo
Dana Poklepovic
Eloísa Peluffo
Federico Cosco
Lorena Muiño
