Gabriel Avruj Receives Award

BUENOS AIRES — Humanity’s Team Argentina Coordinator Ciro Gabriel Avruj received the Humanity’s Team Spiritual Leadership Award at the global Oneness Summit May 25.

This key recognition — which the HT Global Council has given only once before, to Humanity’s Team founder Neale Donald Walsch in 2005 — “celebrates real leadership in the world that progresses the agenda of Humanity’s Team and the New Spirituality,” Worldwide Coordinating Director Steve Farrell said.

Gabriel’s award, containing a citation written in English and Spanish, said: “We celebrate that you have chosen to lovingly and unselfishly share your blessings and gifts with the whole world, through Humanity’s Team, in your personal journey through Life. Thank you for your courage, inspiration and leadership in Awakening the World to Oneness.”

After presenting the award to Gabriel, the Global Council showed a five-minute multimedia presentation in tribute to Gabriel’s spiritual courage. The presentation, created by HT Denmark Coordinator Ejvind Jacobsen, contained stirring and touching music supporting extraordinary photographs of Gabriel’s life, from babyhood to the present, including a personal visit with Pope John Paul II.

Gabriel, who also serves on HT’s Global Council, was the central energy and inspiration behind the formation of HT Argentina in 2006. He has since led HT Argentina’s coordinating team to become one of the most active country teams in the movement.

Gabriel, 35 years old, also teaches entrepreneurs and people in strategic positions in organizations how to integrate their spiritual intelligence into their professional practices. And he has founded, and actively participates in, other groups that promote universal human values and participation by all citizens.

Gabriel has used a wheelchair for mobility since age 14 following a serious 1987 car accident.

On receiving the award, Gabriel shared that before his accident and early in his healing, he was “asleep” and “unconcerned with consciousness, connection and our physical and spiritual reality.”

After several years of painful healing, Gabriel became awake to his true identity and saw others in that same spiritual light, he said.

He said he now sees that the transforming process of becoming awake is the one thing that truly changes everything and is the basis of a planetary shift that can usher in the compassionate and sustainable world that humanity has dreamed about for millennia.

Congratulations, Gabriel! You inspire us!