Being born into a family of artists and pedagogues; father – actor, writer, drama teacher and professor in Spanish, mother – honours graduate of Fine Arts, psychotherapist and Integrative Arts Therapist, brother – actor, playwright and today a prestigious theatre pedagogue and founder of the world renowned theatre school, “La Mancha International School of Image and Gesture”, and last but not least her paternal grandmother, a 6.4 feet tall concert pianist who taught her to read and write since her earliest communicative skills through ingenious drawings and playing, Carolina Malbrán Conte came well equipped into the world’s longest and most varied country in landscapes and beauty, Chile.

Although born with a physical impediment, undergoing several surgeries and learning to walk at the age of 4, Carolina became a compulsive challenger of her creativity and adventurism. Contemplating for years life go by from her sickbed, she developed vital skills for her future; a scrutinising eye for human behaviour, a deep sense of observation, aesthetics and detail, immense respect and gratefulness for care and compassion, infinite patience and resilience, unquenchable thirst for communication and inclusiveness, and undeniable faith in the human body’s potential of self-healing.

Few years later her childhood was once again marked by a life-changing event. Her family had to flee from the military coup in Santiago de Chile 1973. Her 11-year-old brother and herself, a 7-year-old, where the very first political refugee-children who arrived in Norway. A totally unknown and unimagined country, which became their second homeland. Growing up in a peaceful, equality based, socio-democratic country, together with her previous uncommon childhood and Latin upbringing, reinforced Carolina’s qualities in communication, adaptability, solidarity, tolerance, resistance, resilience, relationship- and community building.

Her love for people and her curiosity to integrate and learn about far away cultures and idiosyncrasies, has taken her around the globe living and travelling in 3 different continents sharing her encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and the heart of an artist.

Together with having learnt 7 languages fluently, Carolina has gained significant professional experience in various jobs within diplomacy, management, tourism, communication, visual & expressive arts and the remarkable world of healing and therapeutic treatment.

This range of skills and experiences took her through an enriching and recognized journey as a Freelance Photographer and International Projects’ Developer specializing in Performing Arts, Expressive Fine Art and Sociocultural documentation followed by nearly two decades as professional and acknowledged therapist specialized in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, various Oriental Massage Therapies and Integrative & Expressive Arts Therapy.    

All this background has led Carolina back to the healing path she initiated from very early on; that every human being has the right to live peaceful and dignified lives and that we are all born with unique skills and creative potential, that can make a difference and create an impact for a better world for each and everyone of us. Hence since 2012 Carolina has been intensely involved in Migrant Health and the Refugee Crisis working as a photographer, project developer and Integrative & Expressive Arts therapist.

• “It is up to ourselves to transform our path through life into a source of Creation and Wellbeing that allows us to discover the infinite possibilities that exist in our body, mind and spirit, and the profound meaning of why we’re here. It is by achieving conscience of ourselves that we can create awareness in others”.