Article written by Carlos Jonay Suárez Suárez , co -founder and responsible for Digital Strategy for Remote Peoples

Throughout all these months we have generated a lot of content on Pueblos Remotos : our experiences, our objectives, our impact or the importance of our challenges.

We have told you about us, about the people who come to Telefajar, of the local actors and the phenomenal environments in which we live for twenty -one days. 

We have also given voice to them, teleworkors and local actors, so that they tell us from their perspective 'What is it to live one of our editions. 

But we still have a lot of things to tell you, such as what it means to live one of our experiences in terms of personal and professional learning. 

Connected rurality is also learning

Learning is one of the most important facets of our life. We do it innate since we are born and we are improving the process as we develop. 

Within our 'backpack' we are getting experience, anecdotes, scares, errors and successes, and the sum of everything helps us grow and improve as people. 

One of the objectives we are looking for with the connected rurality is precisely that: grow, and improve, surrounded by people who have similar concerns to ours. 

During the twenty -one days that an experience of Pueblos Remotos lasts, it is very shared: professional advice, use of tools, postural hygiene, books that flip you or even your favorite tea (well, we leave it to Gonzalo, Elsa and Alejandro) 

Jokes apart, there are several essential components that allow learning to be generated and shared naturally during our experiences:  

• The environment: tranquility, calm and rhythm of rural environments, help us find spaces for dialogue, to reflect, to cooperate and to listen. It is a unique atmosphere, in which it is possible to connect much better than in other 'saturated' environments, such as urban ones.

• Coexistence : living with other people helps to have a space for interesting conversations, either during a Coffee-Break , preparing dinner or taking a walk along some near path. Having the opportunity to speak and share with other people is one of the best learning that exists.

• Leaving the circle : knowing other profiles (personal and professional) is also something that helps us learn. Their stories, their knowledge, of the environment, or of the environment, listen to perspectives different from ours; Or acquiring new knowledge outside our field, for the mere fact of doing so, it is something very healthy and one hundred percent recommended.

Learn, far beyond personal and professional 

It seems that we are always determined to put barriers, or segment different parts of our life, as if it were not possible for both of them to live without problem, and we will have no choice but to label them. 

If I do some retrospect and analyze in detail 'what learnings' are generated during pueblos remotos, I can say that they are the perfect combination between the personal and the professional. In fact, I can make this statement because I have been on the ground and I have been able to observe it with my own eyes. Be aware of how there are people who help, maybe without realizing it. People who transmit, and people who listen, people who do and people who follow, in short, who are generating 'small chains' of learning daily. 

What maybe you will be wondering, is, okay, but what kind of learning are generated? To which I could answer you with an ambiguous, and which are not? But, don't worry, I'm not going to stay there. 

The list of things that are shared, and from which they are learned, is almost as long, as the experiences and learning that people who are part of our 'little family' transmit, but to give some examples: 

• In all editions of pueblos remotos we have learned a lot from recipes and everything that has to do with food: traditional icod and old recipes (or Tenerife, or Fuerteventura, in general), recipes, or plates, from different areas of the world; vegan (and ecological) recipes or even Japanese 'geeks' desserts. 

• If we continue with gastronomy, we know much more than before the world of wine, oil, honey, or cheese, from how they are elaborated, to how to taste them. 

• We know much more about the agricultural world, about seedlings, types of plantations, times of the year to plant or how it is important to do so in a certain way. 

• We learned why it is important to give abandoned animals a second life and why it is important to continue taking care of them and keeping them healthy. 

• We have worked with our hands, from sinking them on Earth, to put them to sew a one hundred by one hundred artisanal, and know, incidentally, their real value. 

• We share tools, tips and recommendations on marketing, social networks, productivity, development, writing and a thousand more things.

• There are people who already know 'who are' the group 'Parkís' (yes, those of the happy birthday) 

• We have taken live feedback

• We have laughed out loud with a thousand anecdotes, stories and 'clieves'. 

• We have talked running, walking, taking a bath on the beach or sharing a table at dusk

• We enjoy silence seeing a sunset. 

• We know more about the constellations, the life cycle of the bees or the uses of Aloe.  

In short, we have shared a lot of moments that have helped us improve and grow, while giving us the opportunity to open more, to know other perspectives and learn from the people around us. 

I want to repeat, loaded batteries and a lot of motivation. I want to integrate in my day to day to be as generous as you have been with me, my classmates and local entrepreneurs. I want to know more entrepreneurs from other places and be able to absorb and contribute energy, desire and things with them. Beatriz Segura, participant in Icod Remote.