Miro Speaker Presentations
The Awakening Sessions are visual, participatory presentations delivered through the Miro platform — a digital whiteboard that allows groups to explore ideas together in real time. Hugo brings these sessions to parishes, retreat groups, educational communities, and social-impact organizations.
Each session is rooted in the Catholic contemplative tradition and draws from the wisdom of the mystics, the witness of nature, and the lived experience of the participants themselves. The goal is not information transfer — it is awakening. A gentle invitation to see more clearly what was always already there.
Session Themes
Who Am I? The Journey of Self-Knowledge
Drawing from Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle, participants explore the layers of self — moving from surface identity toward the still centre where God dwells.
From Restlessness to Rest
Augustine's great cry — "Our heart is restless until it rests in you" — as a map for understanding why we seek, what we seek, and how to be found.
The Dark Night as Gift
John of the Cross reframed: the seasons of spiritual dryness, doubt, and silence as not absence but invitation — a deeper purification of love.
Nature as Scripture
From Yosemite's granite faces to Colombia's cloud forests to Florida's tidal rhythms — how the created world speaks of the Creator to those with eyes to see.
Contemplation and Action
The false dichotomy between the inner life and the outer life. How contemplative practice becomes the fuel — not the escape — for service and transformation.
The Entrepreneurial Vocation
For those called to build — how spiritual discernment integrates with strategy, how purpose informs decision, and how to lead from a grounded centre.
Bring a Session to Your Community
All Awakening Sessions are offered without charge to communities of faith, education, or social purpose. Hugo is available in South Florida and virtually worldwide in Spanish and English.
Schedule a Presentation"The Miro board is a campfire around which a community gathers — not to receive a lecture, but to remember together what each of us already carries."— Hugo Aristides