Contributors

Aerin Dunford

Aerin Dunford is the Lead Weaver at ten (The Emergence Network) working to cultivate the ground for experiments and practice around the notion of postactivism and asking poignant questions about the way that human response to the crises we face often reproduce the very conditions that have led to those crises. Since the death and stillbirth of her son in 2018, Aerin has been called to work with grief in new ways; she has been reflecting, writing and convening others to metabolize loss together; learn more about her griefwork on her personal blog, In the Name of Rafa.

Adriele Fonseca

Adriele Fonseca é uma hackativista regenerativa, atuando em projetos pioneiros que gerem mudanças sistêmicas dentro da Acadêmia Tradicional e na sociedade como um todo. Atualmente, em São Carlos - SP, está organizando o FRESA Festival Regenerativo de Sexualidade e Artes 2024, evento gratuito em praça pública, e empreendendo com a Lilith Sexuality Funding, destinando o lucro das vendas no financiamento de projetos ligados a sexualidade. Tais pojetos nascem da dor do nosso feminino, um feminino sistematicamente violentado por aqueles que pregam a morte, o poder e a ganância. Queremos nos curar, queremos viver, queremos amar e ser amadas. Vamos juntas 🌹

Alessandra Pomarico

Alessandra Pomarico is an independent curator, researcher and educator working at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, and community. Co-founder of Free Home University an artistic and pedagogical experiment on sharing knowledge by living in common, the trans-local Ecoversities Alliance, Alessandra’s research currently focuses on ecology of knowledge, care, and relational epistemologies. Recent projects include firefly frequencies radio, M.E.D.U.S.E (Mediterranean Ecofeminist, Decolonial Union for Self-Education) the School of the We, The New Alphabet School #Commoning and #Healing. Editor at artseverywhere, she curated the volume Pedagogies Otherwise (Ecoversities Publications, 2018), co-edited What’s there to learn (Publication Studio Guelph, 2018) and When the Roots Start Moving: Resonating with Zapatismo (Archive Books 2021)

Angel Acosta

For the past decade, Dr. Angel Acosta has bridged leadership, social justice, and mindfulness. Holding a doctorate in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, he has supported educational leaders by facilitating leadership training and designing learning experiences focused on inequality and healing. As a consultant, he integrates leadership development with contemplative and restorative practices. He designed the "Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality" experience and is a member of the 400 Years of Inequality Project. Recently, he’s exploring how technology can advance racial equity and dismantle structural inequality.research models, which she also includes in her way of teaching at the University.

Amandine Gameiro

An Environmental Eng with MA in Ecological Restoration, Amandine dedicates her work to practical sustainability, regeneration and networked social practices in CLIs. A trained permaculturist and advocate for social change as an activist in the Transition movement, she also co-founded and lived for many years in an ecovillage where coordinated the CESA Education Centre for Practical Sustainability. Last years worked more internationally with the Transition movement and as an MIT tutor (MIT/LTT). Currently she is a PhD action-researcher on networks of social movements (CEI-Iscte, Lisbon), collaborating in various CLI research projects EuroRegen, Ecoprise and Regen4All.

Barnaby King

Barnaby King is a teacher, performer and scholar of clowning. He is the creator of Clown Spirit, an organization that brings the power and beauty of clowning to thousands of people around the world. His book, Ridicule and Resistance, explores the social impact of clowning in Latin America and he is also founder of Clown Encuentro, an international festival of clowning. Barnaby believes in the potential of clowning to bring lightness, joy and connection to the world at a time when these qualities are more needed than ever.

Beverly Bravo

Beverly Bravo is one of the convenors of HIRAYA Collective for the Blind. She’s an instructor, researcher and disability right advocate focusing on digital accessibility. She teaches programming related subjects to first year and second year college students at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa. She's also a post-graduate student taking up master's in information technology and working towards research on accessibility software engineering diagrams. She is currently working at Concentrix Philippines as an accessibility officer. She volunteers as a researcher at User Experience Philippines, one of the largest design communities in the country. As a disabled person herself, she advocates for digital accessibility through doing accessibility consultancy and speaking to different local and international organizations and communities about the impact of accessibility on the digital space. Together with her fellow blind and visually impaired friends, she manages a YouTube channel called Visually impaired's Fashion and Lifestyle (VIFAL), where they produce fun and engaging videos to spread awareness within and beyond the disabled community.

Bianca Najara Câmera

Bianca Najara Câmera – Educadora Popular, Assistente Social, Especialista em Trabalho Social com Famílias, Pós-Graduação em Gestão em Serviço Social e Projetos Sociais, Cursando Pós-Graduação em Pedagogia da Cooperação e Metodologias Colaborativas. Coordenadora Pedagógica, na Uni_Diversidade da Quebrada, Articuladora Educativa na Governança do NUA. Premiada com a LEI DO AMOR de 04/10/2023, criada pelos alunos (as) da Uni. Mobilizadora de políticas públicas, com ações e foco em desenvolvimento humanitário, violência doméstica, adolescente/juventude, Álcool e outras Drogas, educacional, ambiental, cultural e comunitário. Focalizadora no Projeto Marcianos e idealizadora do Projeto Pérolas e uma eterna aprendiz e sonhadora em formas de reimaginar a educação de forma livre e desenrolada, com o COLETIVO UNIKEBRADAS.

Che’vanni Davids

Che-vanni Beon Davids is a social researcher and learning enthusiast who is dedicated to transforming the way we approach learning and personal growth. He founded the Reimagined Learning Community, a platform that incorporates wisdom from young people, nature, and intuition to help individuals achieve their full potential. Chevanni embraces the power of plant medicine, spends quality time with his son and family, and taps into the limitless well of inspiration from his dreams.

Danilo de Carvalho

Nascido e criado na Vila Nair em São Miguel Paulista, uma das favelas do estado de São Paulo, brinquei muito na rua até tarde, de pés descalços entre ruas de barro, becos e vielas e córregos de rios a céu aberto. Eu nunca soube o que eu queria ser, mas eu sabia que queria ajudar e inspirar outras pessoas. Hoje me formei como ator e trabalho com a Cia d’Os Inventivos e estou como arte-educador da UniDiversidade das Quebradas, onde ministro aulas de teatro e alongamento. Faço parte do Jornadão da UniKebradas e estou me formando em Licenciatura em Arte-Teatro pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio Mesquita Filho (UNESP), onde estudo e abordo temas relacionados a raça, afro-brasilidades, identidade e cultura afro-indígena e cultura popular periférica.

Deborah Benham

I'm Dr Deborah Benham and I support people and groups to reconnect with, learn from and emulate nature's patterns and principles. For the last 28 years I've been exploring, through various pathways, how humanity can become ecological citizens, live within planetary boundaries and create a thriving future for humanity and the wider living world. Starting out as a marine mammal biologist and wildlife guide, becoming a sustainability trainer and deep nature connection practitioner, then working with the Transition towns movement to support community led climate resilience, and most recently diving into the wonderful world of biomimicry. Throughout this I've provided individuals, community groups, organisations and multi-stakeholder partnerships with the experiences, mindsets and practices to be guided by nature in their designs and actions.

Duncan Crowley

Duncan Crowley is a climate activist for a quarter-century whose work builds bridges between different communities, languages, movements, and peoples, principally focused around degrowth and regenerative pathways through work with ECOLISE on the FLIARA and WAVE projects and previously the UrbanA project. He is an Irish architect exploring community-led ecocities through an action research PhD in Architecture at ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal that involves transdisciplinary work with CE3C Research group in FCUL (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes / Lisbon University Faculty of Science).

Emma J Coddington Brown

Emma (she/they) is an artist-healer-scholar from Aotearoa (currently residing in Turtle Is), dedicated to exploring how stress and love shape our bodies, relationships, and collectives. She began with biophysics and behavioral neuroendocrinology as a researcher and teacher in western educational settings, and now weaves sciences with creative practices and somatic support to provide a regenerative experience for the individual and organizations seeking a liberatory way of being.

Eva Marie Wang

wonderer/wander. storyteller. knowledge weaver. Eva is the founder and convenor of HIRAYA Collective for the Blind. HIRAYA Collective aims to create an alternative and accessible creative learning space for the blind and visually impaired community in the Philippines and beyond. HIRAYA seeks to re-imagine learning spaces that embrace curiosity, play, innovation and creative life. HIRAYA offers various multisensory workshops based on 6 themes: LASAP (flavor & aroma), GALAW (movement & rhythm), DAMA (imaging & sensing), DIWA (words & expression), ARUGA (wellness for all) and SAYA (play & innovation).

Geci Karuri-Sebina

Geci is a scholar-practitioner based in Johannesburg working in the intersection between people, place and technological change. She is Associate Professor in Digital Governance at the Wits School of Governance where she is coordinating the establishment of the new Tayarisha Centre and hosting the African Civic Tech Innovation Network. She is also a Principal at The School of International Futures (SOIF), an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities, Associate of South African Cities Network, and a global faculty member with Singularity University on the future of cities and governance.

Graeme Thomson

Silvia and Graeme are filmmakers and artists. Their practice often makes use of cinema to reactivate lost or forgotten archives and histories and to create new modes of collective vision and engagement with contemporary politics. Aside from their film work, for several years they have been developing a research project, ‘common infra/ctions’, forging connections between strategies of unlearning and idiorhythmic play - which includes the Dark Matter Cinema Tarot and the Centre for Language Unlearning, both of which have become nomadic tools. They’ve collaborated with several collectives around the world.

Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes became a teacher in 1958, knowing nothing about teaching and nothing about children. Since then, she has been on a sharp learning curve, peaking today when she realized, in conversation with her 11 year-old granddaughter, that she has no answers - only more questions. She does, however, have a ton of stories. After teaching in the regular classroom for 5 years, she then taught pre-school and kindergarten. That was a shock. Children in preschool are keen learners and magnificently curious. As they go through the system many of them lose their sparkle. It was then that Helen started a school for her daughter, who simply did not thrive in the public school. The private school, Windsor House, was to be just like a kindergarten for more sophisticated learners. Helen and the children, parents and volunteers spent the next 34 years experimenting and learning. Helen retired in 2005, and has been pursuing her interest in a type on collaboration that is absolutely fool-proof!

Isamar Cerón

Isamar Cerón es geógrafa por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, educadora, defensora del conocimiento abierto, creadora de nuevos horizontes de posibilidades y wikipedista desde hace dos años. Ha desarrollado proyectos educativos con infancias y adolescencias en condiciones vulneradas en alianza con organizaciones no gubernamentales de distintas regiones de México y Centroamérica. Ha colaborado como profesora adjunta en clases a nivel superior en la licenciatura de Geografía y actualmente se desempeña

Jaelene Mina

Jaelene Mina is one of the convenors of HIRAYA Collective for the Blind. She's a licensed professional teacher and a certified international professional in accessibility core competency. She worked as an assistive technology trainer at ATRIEV IT Center for the Blind since 2015. She is currently an accessibility officer at Concentrix Philippines. She is a graduate of Bachelor in Elementary Education major in Special Education. Jaelene is a certified audio gamer, a book lover, and a fiction podcast fanatic. Over the course of her work, she has developed experiences in general transcription, closed-captioning, digital accessibility testing, learning materials creation, leadership, teaching and public speaking. Although deprived of eyesight, she uses her ears and fingertips to navigate her laptop and mobile devices, design audio, edit video, write stories, create content, take online courses, and do other interesting things.

John Michael ‘JM’ Lopez

John Michael ‘JM’ Lopez is a convenor of HIRAYA Collective since 2023. He is a Community Officer for Disability at TBPeople Philippines, an NGO advocating for tuberculosis and providing peer support to TB patients and their close contacts. Vice-President and Motivational Counselor of Guide and Advocacy Built with the Aspirations of Yahweh (GABAY), an NGO supporting people living with HIV along with prevention, diagnosis and treatment of other STIs. Passionate about social work, volunteerism, and raising awareness on tri-diseases specifically Tuberculosis and HIV, and disability rights.

Kaushiek Pranoo

Kaushiek Pranoo is the founder of Unlearning Ashram through which he offers facilitated experiential unlearning journeys that empower human transformation inside out. Over the past decade, he has delved into authentic inner work, leadership, well being, community building and alternative learning pedagogies and has been serving in multiple roles as a facilitator, life coach, mentor, writer and business consultant, having had the privilege to work closely with people from diverse backgrounds across all age groups - from indigenous, rural to urban communities. He summarizes his unlearning journey thus far as, "I can see. I can respond. I can bow down."

Julián Poma "Juli"

Mi experiencia en actividades de empoderamiento juvenil abrió a mis ojos una nueva perspectiva donde la construcción de un futuro mejor parte desde sentar las bases en una generación de jóvenes comprometidxs en causas sociales, ambientales y comunitarias, rescatando su relación con el entorno y consigo mismxs que nos recuerde la interconexión que existe con el todo. “Juli contribuye en el proceso con su pasión en temas ambientales, su sensible discernimiento colectivo, su generosa presencia que invita al cuidado responsable de las relaciones”.

Karina Rodriguez

Muté de arquitecta de infraestructuras para ser “arquitecta de vidas”(como uno de los jóvenes que llegó a los procesos vivenciales que gestamos desde “El Nido, casa abierta”, me llamó. Desde mi renacimiento junto a Nico y Luana; vengo deconstruyendo las capas que impedían a mi esencia SER para expresarme y aprender a través de la gestación de espacios de aprendizaje, la articulación en redes alternativas, el diseño de procesos humanos, la exploración a través del arte, la sabiduría ancestral del cosmos y el acompañamiento en la vida en familia. “Nina aporta al proceso con su visión macro, su poder de bajar del sueño a la acción, su empatía para escuchar y calidez para cuidar”.

Karine Bell

Karine Bell is a mother of two, life partner to Daniel, and founder of and co-dreamer in the Rooted Global Village (www.rootedglobalvillage.com). A bi-cultural Black woman, she is also a somatics educator, practitioner, somatic abolitionist, scholar-activist, and clown-in-training. She is currently alive with curiosity around how we can learn to weave ourselves and each other into ecologies of care, countering cultures that create fragmentation, alienation, and hyper-independence; to embrace difference, cultivate embodied capacity for transformation, and engage in radical acts of friendship across division. She is guided by curiosity and wonder as compass points, and research as an act of reverence for life. She is a PhD candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute where she combines continued practice and study in somatics with studies in decolonial depth psychology with a focus on community, liberation, indigenous and eco-psychologies.

Kierstin Rossling

I am a Cascadian bioregional weaver, organizer, artist, herbalist, forest dweller, and student of the land. I’m passionate about creating accessible, relational, and community-oriented learning pathways that explore what it means to live within a culture informed by place. I am also continually exploring tools for navigating and embracing conflict. I work to equip communities with these tools to cultivate healing, both individually and collectively. To consciously heal as a culture is to tend to the heath of the soil, from which the actions and systems we create and embody grow from.

Kazu Haga

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of Building Belonging, the Ahimsa Collective and the Fierce Vulnerability Network, is a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He works with incarcerated people, youth, and activists from around the country. He has over 25 years of experience in nonviolence and social change work. He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA, where he lives with his family.

Luisina Ferrante

Luisina estudió Historia en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Completó su Diplomatura en Educación y Nuevas Tecnologías (PENT-FLACSO). Es Magíster en Derechos Humanos y Políticas Sociales en la Universidad Nacional de General San Martín. Su tema de tesis es la educación de jóvenes y adultos en escuelas públicas y populares, ubicadas en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. También es Doctora en Educación y Sociedad en la Universidad de Barcelona, su tema de tesis es sobre Wikipedia y procesos de alfabetización digital docente. Actualmente es la Coordinadora del Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos de Wikimedia Argentina.

Makarios Andrade

Vivo junto a Nina, Nico y Luana en @ElNidoCasaAbierta desde hace más de 10 años, donde gestamos experiencias de aprendizaje explorando diversos ámbitos del ser. He dejado de ser docente universitario y consultor para ONGs, para aprender con las manos y el corazón como aprendiz del flujo Tejido de Vida en la Tierra y el Cosmos para transitar mis propios procesos y acompañar a otrxs en los caminos de exploración hacia el florecimiento, poniendo la Vida en el centro. “Makarios contribuye en los procesos con la brújula de navegación, su presencia alquimizante y con preguntas que contribuyen a diálogos muy enriquecedores”.

Maureen Momo Freehill

Internationally recognized dance professional and catalyst for full-bodied communion with Nature. Having surmounted countless obstacles and gathered many inspiring lessons and potent tools over 40 years as a professional dancer, theater actor/director, outdoor educator, butoh and yoga instructor, somatic movement therapist, and explorer of mystical transmissions including Gene Keys and Human Design; I utilize it all to educate masterful creators like you, playing in these fields.

Michal Osterweil

Michal teaches in the Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. She believes that learning how to live into a resilient future requires a pedagogy that considers theory, history, and philosophy as well as more practical, spiritual and embodied knowledges and practices. Michal is a mother and radical homemaker who loves making (collective) life through gardening, cooking & feeding others, making tea blends and medicinal concoctions, and generally de-commodifying life! She’s recently been training in various healing modalities and embodiment practices, seeking to integrate them into her teaching.

Mindahi Bastida

Dr. Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz is the Director of the Original Nations Program at The Fountain and a member of the Mother Earth Delegation. He is an executive member of the Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth and a spokesperson of the Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. He also serves as the General Coordinator of the Otomi Regional Council of the High Lerma River Basin, Mexico, that promotes the rights of nature and Mother Earth as well as the rights to self- determination of original nations. He was director of the Original Caretakers Program at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Nandini Gosine-Mayrhoo

Nandini Gosine-Mayrhoo is the creator of nandī, a platform that nurtures the nature leaders of tomorrow, today. She has written the first children's book on The Music of the Plants, a remarkable device that converts the natural electrical impedance between a plant's roots and leaves into musical notes. The device opens up a unique connection between us and the natural world. Her book, Nandi & The Music of the Plants is a Distinguished Honoree of the prestigious Mom's Choice Awards and has received a 2024 Parents' Picks Award for Best Educational Product for Elementary Kids. Nandini creates online lessons and courses sharing the wonder, awe and importantly, the intelligence in the natural world, nurturing our future nature leaders, today.

Nantu Larrea Laurini

Mi nombre es Nantu Larrea Laurini, tengo 18 años y soy de la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Desde los 6 años mi pasión es la música, explorando alrededor de 20 instrumentos hasta llegar a la quena. Toda mi vida hice educación alternativa y a los 15 experimenté un año de colegio, di clases de música y gané una beca a Estados Unidos con un proyecto musical. Actualmente estudio producción musical de manera autónoma. La educación libre me permite viajar, aprender mucho y fortalecer mi camino para estudiar en Argentina.

Pavel Cenkl

Pavel Cenkl is Academic Dean at Prescott College and the Founder of the Regenerative Learning Network. His work focuses on the intersection of transformative learning, community and ecology and building a more regenerative and resilient educational future. Previously Head of Schumacher College (Devon, UK) and Dean of Sterling College (VT, US), Pavel writes and speaks widely about curriculum design and pedagogy, global learning networks, environmental humanities and philosophy and has developed programmes in ecology, humanities, outdoor skills and recreation, regenerative food and farming, and more.

Pooja Prema

Pooja Prema is a first-generation Indian-American multidisciplinary artist, ritualist, writer, facilitator and cultural activist. Throughout her eighteen-year career, her work has centered on visionary eco-feminism, decolonial somatic ritual practice, and bridging the worlds of East & West through the written, spoken and sung word. She is the Founder & Director The Rites of Passage Project, a collaborative multimedia project based on the creation of large-scale “living museums” reclaiming initiations in women’s lives; and of The Ritual Theatre, an experimental site-specific dance-theater company creating original work in the Northeastern United States since 2012. Learn more at RitesofPassageProject.org and PoojaPrema.com.

Rachael Knight

Rachael Knight is a lawyer dedicated to protecting Indigenous Peoples' and rural communities' collective land rights. For over two decades, she has worked with local lawyers to help communities defend their lands from land grabbing and revive ancestral rules for governance and ecosystem stewardship. Currently writing a book, Rachael emphasizes the spiritual dimensions of land stewardship, believing that land is sentient and should be consciously honored, with rituals and practices that foster a deep connection to the natural world.

Rakesh 'Rootsman' Rak

An experienced Permacultre designer teacher, forest garden specialist, yoga teacher, homeopath and reggae DJ. Rakesh has been designing and teaching permaculture to individuals and communities since 2009, and has taught over 500 permaculture, forest gardening, eco village design and related courses. His design portfolio ranges from large scale forest gardens in eco villages through to many urban community food growing gardens, private farms and back gardens as well as designing collaborative businesses, urban water retention systems and even computer software and documentation systems.

Richard ‘Aki’ Divina

Richard ‘Aki’ Divina took up Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City. Before losing his eyesight and becoming totally blind in June 2021 due to retinal detachment secondary to encephalitis, he had worked as a team lead in the business process outsourcing industry for international companies that support various campaigns like banking, telco, and power and gas services for 11 years. Joining Hiraya Collective for the Blind in November 2023, he started supporting the community’s advocacy that aims to raise awareness about blindness and visual impairment through alternative learning and workshops in the community.

Sergio Álvarez

A lo largo de mi vida tuve que vivir varias crisis que me han permitido aprender formando una perspectiva de conciencia en busca de alternativas a los sistemas actuales. Crecí abrazado de la madre naturaleza; amándola dediqué gran parte de mi vida a su cuidado y conservación desde la ciencia y la conciencia. Actualmente, me inspira aprender y crecer junto a las nuevas generaciones desde el enfoque de poner la vida en el centro, reconectando con la naturaleza que vive en nuestro interior para sanar el alma, fuera del sistema. “Sergio aporta con su amor al servicio, incondicionalidad al cuidado colectivo y compartires desde su auténtico corazón ”.

Shai Tubali

Shai Tubali is a philosopher, author, and transformational teacher known for blending Eastern and Western philosophies to make profound ideas accessible to a global audience. He has written 21 books and developed innovative methods for emotional healing and cognitive enhancement. As a research fellow at the University of Leeds, his academic focus explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and the philosophy of religion, as well as the transformative potential of philosophical dialogue.

sierra ying allen

I come from blackberries and fire morels, giant oak trees and granite boulders, Asia, Europe and the Americas. I'm a hybrid, a nepantlerx, a weaver between worlds, a witnesser of Beauty. With friends, I love to play, climb and dance with the great Mysteries, tell stories under the stars and go on wild adventures. I've been weaving the Ecoversities Alliance since 2019, co-organizing the Re-imagining Education Conference since it began, and am currently exploring what's possible with Adventureversity.

Silvia Rocha

I am the happiest grandmother in the world! Grandma of Mathias, 10, and Lírio, 15 months. I have two daughters - Júlia, 35; Louise, 27, and a son Augusto, 28. I am a Brazilian journalist and I write and teach haiku: the brief three-verse poems inspired by Nature, which have Japanese origins. Haiku poems are widely known and written all over the world. I have co-founded Transition Granja Viana, a Brazilian chapter of the sustainability British movement called Transition Towns, which is 14 years old in our community. We have been developing many actions, such as the creation of our local weekly Ecological Free Market; a socio-political movement called “I VOTE WHERE I LIVE”; and our Exchange Free Market: “Exchange what you do not use for something you need.” It will be a pleasure and honor to participate in your event.

Simona Palumbo

Simona Palumbo is a senior project manager at CESIE, specialising in project management, innovative educational tools, entrepreneurship support, and networking. Her notable projects include coordinating "Ecoprise," which focuses on sustainable social entrepreneurship, and "RestART," aimed at supporting the digital transition of the creative sectors. She has also managed projects like "Performers Go Online," which promoted lifelong learning in the cultural and creative sector.

Suzana Nory

Suzana Nory é cofundadora da UniKebradas, onde semeia processos participativos de centro aberto, pesquisa ludicidade, comunicação compassiva e relações intergeracionais enquanto tece redes de aprendizagem. É mãe de 6 filhos, sexygenária, poetisa, contadora de histórias, mochileira, colorista e risonha (espalha cor e risadas por onde passa) Suzana Nory is a co-founder of UniKebradas, where she sows open-center participatory processes, researches playfulness, compassionate communication and intergenerational relationships while weaving learning networks. She is a mother of 6, sexygenarian, poet, storyteller, backpacker, colorist and laugher (she spreads color and laughter wherever she goes)

Tasia Mattos

Taisa Mattos is the Face-to-Face Programmes Coordinator for Gaia Education, specializing in ecovillages and regenerative education. Over 15 years, she has coordinated and taught Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) programs in Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, and Argentina, and led Gaia Education’s Training of Trainers programs. She managed the ReGEN4ALL project and served as Education & Research Coordinator at GEN International, where she was also involved in leadership and networking. A co-founder of Terra Una Ecovillage in Brazil, Taisa is a lecturer, trainer, and author focused on sustainability, community building, and social innovation.

Teresa Posakony

Teresa Posakony is passionate about creating healthy and resilient communities and organizations. Teresa’s research is at the intersection of neuroscience, anatomy, energy medicine, and somatic (body) intelligence. She loves seeing the change that happens when people discover the intelligence of their bodies and learn how to work with it. Teresa shares simple game changing practices you can use to rebalance your nervous system and get back into learning, life, healthier relationships, and better teamwork.

Vanessa Meng

Ms. Butterfly is my artistic and public name. I grew up between Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan. I graduated from Swarthmore College with a Philosophy and Peace and Conflicts Studies degree in 2020, and am currently attending the California Institute of Integral Studies for a Masters in Applied Psychology. I am part of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and involved with the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance. Guided by my heart, I am an educator, a healer, a creator and a friend.

WHAIA

Born of Ngati Kahugnunu, tribal descent, Whaia is a transcendent vocalist, alchemical performer, First Nations Multi-instrumentalist, Designer, Creative Cultural Producer and visionary Facilitator, making this woman one powerhouse mama. Blending intuitive melodies made of wood, bone, clay and stone she weaves the sonic bridge between worlds. She is an elemental voice of water and an official board member of Oceanic Global, singing for World Oceans day at the UN Headquarters in New York 2023. Moving across the country serving communities through arts, music festivals, venues and events. As a mother of 3 her sights are on the future change makers and leaving something bigger than oneself.

Yeyo Beltrán

Sergio "Yeyo" Beltrán has designed and participated in multiple intercultural group facilitation experiences. He is co-founder of the University of the Earth in Oaxaca and Tools for Good Living, A.C. He currently supports and disseminates popular communication projects and educational alternatives around the world and practices the Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations as an external consultant for companies, institutions and non-profit organizations. He is a member of the Ecoversities Alliance among other global networks.

Albert Salazar

Albert is an ocean storyteller, oceanographer, unresearcher, trickster, inhabitant of many worlds. He lives along the California Peninsula, in Kumeyaay Country, in-between the desert and the sea. He feels profound reverence and sympathy towards fossils and water stones. As of late, he has been listening to the Land, healing with the weather, learning how to be in service with the aliveness all around him, embracing the more-than-human world, exploring his own voice. At times, his night dreams are visited by wandering whales.

Alice Adnet

Nascida e criada nas montanhas do Rio de Janeiro, desde cedo vivencio experiências de aprendizagem com a natureza, as medicinas da floresta e a cultura popular. Sou formada em Educação do Campo, com ênfase em Agroecologia, e tenho formação em design de sustentabilidade pelo Gaia Education e criação colaborativa de projetos pela metodologia Dragon Dreaming. Atualmente, pesquiso Educação Regenerativa, com o sonho de apoiar a formação de jovens para uma ação transformadora. Além disso, articulo o movimento "Florescer da Nova Era", que reúne jovens de várias partes do Brasil, para ouvir o chamado da Terra e fortalecer nosso compromisso com a regeneração.

Andrea Gonzalez Andino

Andre is a Relational artist, Chix'i, Andean, cuir, mountaineer, and climber. In recent years, Andre has worked with global communities related to issues of alternatives to hhiger education and life. Andre also works with the Ecoversities network and Re-imagining Education conference on cultural, social, and educational regeneration. Student of the Escuelita del Amor where the teacher is Ayahuasca, grandmother of the Amazon. Part of the project Following Andean Footsteps, learning with mountains, rocks, and with the pedagogy of Circuits of learning, where the objective is to come back to see ourselves to walk towards our dreams.

Asato Nakamura

I am a doctor for people and the planet. I am freeing up my home to create an alternative educational space called ManaViva. I am also in the process of starting an alliance called waterversities, learning from water. I originally studied Western medicine, but have since been exploring traditional medicine and shamanism from around the world. I am also doing research on planetary health in the water cycle. On a shamanic journey in Latin America now with water 🐋🐋🐋

Apollinaire Oussou Lio

Prince Djaka Whaénu Atawé of the Tolinou indigenous community of Benin, Nigeria and the Diaspora. He is the president of the NGO Grabe-Benin which works for the conservation of biodiversity and the protection of sacred sites. Geographer-Naturalist, expert in jurisprudence of the Earth, he works for the conservation of natural resources based on the knowledge of ancestors and through intergenerational dialogue. With his tree-life program he works for the restoration of sacred forests and reforestation. At the same time, Appolinaire facilitates community dialogues to revive traditional values and intergenerational exchanges on sustainable agriculture, agro-ecology, ecological governance, traditional seeds, etc. With his rich experience, he has developed communication skills and tools based on endogenous and modern knowledge, facilitating the integration of all social strata. At the international level, Appolinaire Oussou Lio is also involved as Vice President of the African Biodiversity Network (ABN) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance of Guardians of Mother Nature, founded in 2015 at the call of the cacique Raoni.

Barnaby Willett

Barnaby Willett is a contemplative educator, mindfulness teacher, and futurist. He is currently working on artificial intelligence applications with MindHeart.ai and The Game of Life (thegol.ai), exploring the intersection of technology, wisdom, and holistic values. A Garrison Institute Fellow, Barnaby is developing the contemplative practice of ally work (allywork.org) as a catalyst for personal and collective transformation. He was a pioneer in bringing mindfulness into U.S. public high schools with Peace in Schools and has led research on mindfulness and trauma in youth in partnership with Johns Hopkins University. Since 1994, he has studied diverse contemplative traditions, including Zen, nonduality, and Sufi Islam.

Bhawna Trivedi

Bhawna is a founder of antim yatra and naphsha. Antim yatra means journey at the end of life. The focus is to talk and prepare ourselves to die and understand that we are not dying, only changing the costume. Naphsha (comes from Aramic word) to connect to higher self to understand who you are and works on forgiveness. Bhawna is also a karma healer and akashic record reader, meaning she reads past lives to explore why you are suffering in this lifetime in terms of relationships, health, stuckness and many more aspects of soul journey.

brontë velez

brontë's work and rest is guided by the cosmology and promise of sabbath for black people and the land. As a black-latine transdisciplinary artist, trickster, educator, jíbare and wakeworker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking, abolitionist theologies, environmental regeneration, death doulaship, and the levity of absurdity. The prayer of their life is to support safe and hilarious passage through climate collapse. They serve as artistic director for bakiné ritual arts collective (fka Lead to Life) and adults program director/educator for Weaving Earth (weavingearth.org). They are currently co-conjuring a film with Esperanza Spalding in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony and practicing pastoral care (in an ecological and ministerial sense) as a co-steward of a land refuge in Kashia Pomo territory in northern California.

Catarina Rosa

Catarina, Master-level biologist specializing in animal vocalizations, behaviour and evolution. Dancer and teacher with more than a decade of experience, in Portugal (her native land) and internationally, moving through different styles and somatic and mindfulness techniques and explorations. Eco.femi.activist, communications manager, translator, animal trainer, curator of festivals and workshops. A hoping bird between sea, mountains, desert, rurality and urbanity, deep lover of Nature and the humans that care for her.

Edgard Gouveia Júnior

Edgard Gouveia Júnior is an architect, urbanist, and researcher in cooperative games. His career focuses on mobilizing people of all ages through research-driven games and collective actions that inspire small community revolutions. As president of Epic Journey, he promotes regenerative communities within companies, schools, and NGOs. He co-founded LiveLab, where research and action empower youth to lead regeneration in their own communities through projects like Jornada X and Primavera X. An Ashoka, Berkana Exchange, and TRIP Transformers Fellow, he also teaches cooperative games pedagogy globally and is a co-founder of research-based initiatives such as Elos Institute and the Oasis Game.

Eliza Bernal de Oliveira

I have been an elementary school teacher, counsellor, art therapist, Storyteller, mother of two and grandmother of many. i work as a volunteer in an NGO in Spain giving lectures and classes around about how to improve an integral education, between school and home. I am also supporting groups of women in distress or abuse with small children in our Casa Pepe Bravo, Spain. Children are always a blessing and grandchiildren are a most beautiful opportunity to live your loving and creative inner child, free of main responsability and hopefully wiser than ever...Just pure loving joy. have have also been supporting groups of elders in São Paulo for more than fifteen years...and social agents groups in Spain.Thank you for your important approach to Life and for the opportunity to be among you all,listening and learning.

Emilio Fantin

Emilio Fantin is particularly engaged with pedagogy as a form of research. He pays a great deal of attention to dialogue, expressed as the art of conversation, and to the concept of the invisible community—whereby the poetic and evocative aspects of social life become a form of everyday practice. In addition to numerous seminars and workshops in international art institutions and museums, Fantin conducted workshops on art and architecture in public spaces at the Milan Polytechnic from 2005–2015. He is one of the members of the Ecoversities audiovisual circle.

Ethan Hughes

I began my journey in The Gift 1999 when I gave away a $150,000 inheritance and all my possessions except my bicycle. I wanted to try to experience what the Tao Te Ching says, “If you want to be given everything, give everything up.” This experiment produced so much fruit I continued with another, The Haul of Justice: biking and serving across 24 states and 8 countries. We dressed as Karmic Yoga “Superheroes” with capes and names like Dr. Dharma, Compashman, Love Ninja, and The Golden Rule. This led to founding an electricity-free, land-based, gift economy experiment in collective liberation, The Possibility Alliance. Over 15,000 people have visited over 17 years. To link all this beautiful work nationally, we helped launch The Fierce Vulnerability Network, a grassroots, volunteer reparations and heart-based climate change action team, composed of dozens of organizations. Internationally we helped launch the Internal Family Systems Liberation Collective, working at the edge of trauma healing and social change - all in the gift. Onward we go! What experiments will emerge next?

Gabriel Portugal

Gabriel Portugal é jovem agente da mudança, Designer em Sustentabilidade e Regeneração pelo Ciclo Gaia Viva 2024, é Membro da equipe do Collab Jovem, empreendedor, membro da equipe e facilitador do programa MAEH (Matriz de Autopesquisa e Envolvimento Humano) voluntário do Programa Permanente Ecobairro, agente da Transição. Acredita na potência individual e coletiva de cada ser humano, na educação livre e significativa, na potência da juventude em tempo de eventos climáticos.

Gerson Paredes Coz (Wanka Inti)

Wanka Inti (Gerson Paredes) is the son of ancestral healers from the Wanka nation, department of Junín-Peru. He is a Member of the Great Council of the Eagle and the Condor, led by the Otomí Tolteka leader Mindahi Bastida. He is Member of the Inka Council of the Musuq Tawantinsuyu,led by the Inka Tito Q'osñipa. Is Leader of the original peoples of Tawantinsuyu-Peru and Member of the sacred Circle of wise grandmothers and Grandfathers of Mother Earth. He is Organizer of the Inti Raymi, ceremonies of Father Sun and of solar and lunar ceremonies. He is an ancestral dream healer. He is hypnotherapist, member of the Peruvian Association of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis APHCE.

Helene Lindmark

Helene Lindmark lineage holder Noaidi from northern Sweden Sápmi. She is a mentor, wisdom keeper, bridge builder, and global representative of her tradition and community. Born and raised in Liikavaara, Sweden, she carries the Shamanic tradition of her Sapmi, Sweden, Russia, and Finland heritage. She brings the voice of Mother Earth, the voice of the indigenous knowledge out in the world. Cocreating the bridge in between ancestral wisdom and science, modern society. Bring the voice of indigenous knowledge to corporate and government forums, sharing the wisdom of the land through dialogue, ceremonies, rituals, and prayers. She works with helping people through the insights these traditions bring to develop their contact with and understanding of nature, others, and ultimately, themselves and their own human nature.

Indy Rishi Singh

Indy Rishi Singh is a community educator sharing Neuroplasticity & Resilience advocate and regenerative civic engagement. His podcast, Political Hope, reaches thousands of listeners every week. Indy is a cultural creative and chief pollinator with Cosmic Labyrinth, a collective of burned out professionals turned edutainers producing biocultural ecorestoration festivals while building a coalition promoting regenerative economics. Indy recently joined the California Doughnut Economic Coalition, focusing on policy change and grassroots cooperation to create an economy that cares for both people and nature. He is also a board member with Cultivating Self, a nonprofit transforming and reimagining healthcare by focusing on the education, empowerment and evolution of healthcare professionals. Indy regularly shares Neuroplasticity and resilience techniques with corporations and organizations around the world.

Jawdat Kassab

Born and raised in Nazareth, 29 years of age, with an optimistic take on life. Jawdat had acquired his LLB and LLM, and now works as a lawyer. In addition, Jawdat is an Arava Institute Alumni for Environmental and Political Studies. Jawdat holds a growing passion for building communities and cultures. He is the Co-founder of the FALLAHI project that harnessed skills of participatory leadership, dialogue, storytelling, and NVC for the purpose of creating a safe space for collective healing.

Jesed Mateo

Artista visual, educadora e investigadora, me dedico al diseño, coordinación y aplicación de procesos pedagógicos en colaboración con museos, instituciones culturales, colectivos y comunidades, siempre desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar y participativa. Soy cofundadora de Error Pedagogía, un proyecto de investigación pedagógica interdisciplinario. Desde hace tres años, formo parte del equipo de comunicación digital de WikiAcción Perú, donde he trabajado en proyectos de registro sonoro enfocados en preservar la memoria del lenguaje oral y cultural del quechua y sus variantes.

Karima Kadaoui

JKarima Kadaoui is a Tamkeen facilitator and lived experience researcher, growing a shared understanding of societal metamorphosis and emerging governance from lived experience. She co-founded Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development in 2009 and with the Moroccan education eco-system co-facilitates its self-facilitated transformation process manifesting in emerging Community Based Learning & Understanding Ecosystems (CBLUEs). She witnesses and experiences how trusting our humanity and love suffuse into being the conditions for the emergence of a humanising education system. Karima is a full member of the Club of Rome and serves as advisor in the board of Africa Voices Dialogue, reflecting and amplifying the beauty of the voices of teachers and learners in Africa.

Kate Rudd

Kate is a researcher working at the intersection of new economic thinking and inner-outer systems transformation. For the past year, she has been facilitating the collaborative design and development of a learning programme for a globally-distributed network of grassroots learning centres linked to the Conscious Food Systems Alliance and Prescott College. The 'Local Leadership for Regenerative Food Systems programme' aims to cultivate the inner capacities of learners and practitioners to weave regenerative and conscious food systems in their own bioregions. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of York and Invited Faculty of Nova Health Institute.

Kū Kahakalau

Dr. Kū Kahakalau is an award-winning Native Hawaiian educator, researcher, cultural practitioner, grassroots activist, visionary, community leader, traditional songwriter, and expert in Hawaiian language and culture. Dr. Kahakalau and her daughter ʻIʻini lead Kū-A-Kanaka, a native Hawaiian social enterprise, specializing in culture-based consulting and online education, targeting Hawaiians ages 15-30 enrolled in EA Ecoversity, a culture-based higher education and career training program founded by Dr. Kahakalau in 2020. EA stands Education with Aloha, since Dr. Kahakalauʻs research confirms that love, compassion, respect and kindness are the most important ingredients in 21st century education, just like they were in ancient times.

Lauren Hage

Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, an educational nonprofit that encourages the study and practice of Earth Intimacy, Embodiment, Eco-social Co-Liberation, and Prayerful Action as key approaches for addressing the social and ecological crises of our times. She is also a certified facilitator of the somatics-based body of work called The Resilience Toolkit. Lauren comes from Ashkenazi Jewish (Odessa), Sicilian, and Scottish ancestry. As an educator, consultant, ecological designer, and creative, Lauren has dedicated 20+ years to supporting people to shape their actions and pursue their passions from a foundation rooted in interrelationship. Her work and play are an expression of her prayer for eco-social co-liberation.

Liel Maghen

I am a dedicated peacebuilding professional and environmental advocate with a rich background in leadership and international collaboration. With an M.A. in International Development and a B.A. in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, my academic achievements underscore my commitment to these fields. As the former Executive Co-CEO of the Israel Palestine Center for Regional Initiatives (IPCRI), I co-founded the Sinsila Center, which focuses on empowering Palestinian youth and fostering community resilience in East Jerusalem. My role involved developing and facilitating numerous peacebuilding programs, collaborating with esteemed organizations such as Seeds of Peace, Hands of Peace, and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES). Throughout my career, I have initiated transboundary programs, forged critical partnerships, and received notable recognitions, including the Goldberg Peace Prize for Middle East Peace and the title of 2019 Gather Fellow. Fluent in multiple languages, I am passionate about advancing peace, sustainability, and community empowerment.

Lizandra Barbuto

Occupational Therapist and expert in Neuroscience; Human Development; Integral Sustainability and Sufi psychology, master in Science whose journey has been fueled by a deep passion for our shared humanity. With a diverse background in Gestalt Therapy, Systemic Therapy, and Family Constellation, she has navigated the complexities of mortality through her work in neurological rehabilitation, fostering resilience and connection among diverse individuals. As an international trainer and consultant, Lizandra unleashes collective wisdom by merging personal growth, community building, and environmental sustainability, collaborating with organizations and individuals worldwide. Her quest for knowledge extends beyond her professional realm into her love for nature, mountaineering, photography, and cooking, each serving as a canvas for creativity and resilience. Believing in the transformative power of health, talent, and recognition, she dedicates her life to empowering others to realize their full potential and engage meaningfully with the world.

María Emilia Chamorro “Mae”

Desde muy pequeña me ha apasionado la naturaleza, así como toda la vida que alberga y la forma en la que logro conectar con ella. Ésto me mueve e inspira a querer preservarla y cuidarla, junto a otrxs jóvenes que anhelan un futuro esperanzador, donde la conexión con todos los seres vivos que habitan esta Tierra sea sagrada.Me siento muy agradecida de las relaciones cercanas que me aportan a seguir conectando profundamente con lo más auténtico de mi ser. “Mae aporta al proceso con su energía apacible, su presencia dinamizadora, su cuestionamiento profundo y curiosidad innatas”.

Marlene Fantini

Artist, researcher, wanderer, working with film, thoughts and images, believes in a constant quest for the dismantling of the boundaries restraining our personal and collective existence, freeing encounters, erasing differences between nature and culture, focusing energies to build a more sustainable way for our day-to-day life. She co-conducted the first edition of the AULab (Audiovisual Unconference Lab) as a means to reflect on the power of audio-visuals and on how to be more conscious with the tools that we have or can create, in a collective research on how to unlearn standardised audio-visual processes in a distracted, overly-saturated world and reshape our presence.

Monica Rosales

I am Mônica Rosales, 64, mother of three and grandmother of twins four years old. Life at maturity receives a dessert when young children come into our lives. Connecting heart with knowledge brings another state of presence for this time. I am an art and biographical therapist and storyteller. I have been involved with social work with elderly people with a holistic approach, also connecting different generations. I am involved with 18 different community development projects in São Paulo’s periphery and am also part of the Transition Town movement in our town.

Monica Bonilla

Me llamo Mónica, nací en Bogotá, Colombia. Soy wikimedista desde 2015 y he acompañado proyectos con comunidades indígenas, mujeres, comunidades afro y hablantes de lenguas nativas habladas en Colombia. Tengo experiencia de más de doce años en coordinación de proyectos, investigación, apropiación social del conocimiento, alfabetización mediática e informacional. He trabajando como consultora y coordinadora de proyectos en ONG'S de Holanda, EEUU, México, Perú y como investigadora en estudios sociales de la ciencia, la tecnología y la medicina en el sector académico en Colombia.

Nandita Batheja

Nandita Batheja (she/they) is the Cultivator of Community Learning and Partnerships at YES!, working across sectors to advocate for justice, liberation, and creative expression. A facilitator, artist, and community weaver, Nandita is driven by the power of imagination and play for transformative change. They co-founded the Stingray Virtual Artist Residency and have facilitated the U.S. Arts for Social Change Jam since 2016, while also engaging in healing, conflict transformation, and leadership development. Based in San Diego, Nandita’s roots extend to New York, India, Indonesia, and beyond.

Ndzinga

My Name is Ndzinga. I am a divine being set out to cultivate more inner consciousness with those whom I interact with. I am an unschooler who has been exploring the concept and idea of alternative learning and re-imagining education for the past 5 years, exploring ways of learning through remembrance. I practice and encourage practices such as Yoga, Chi-gong, Breathwork, Dancing, Meditation & Affirmation as a way of learning. I have a podcast called finding your feet, with the intention to inspire healing in the world and a stronger sense of self, the podcast is close to my heart…As i to am at an age of finding my own feet. I am a Butterfly, a Teacher, a Learner, a Space Holder, a Healer, a World Traveler and a Womban on the path of honouring the divine mother, PatchaMama, Mama Gaia… Let’s grow more consciously together 🦋

Nissa Coit

Nissa Coitis is a creative spirit and bee advocate with a Master’s in Entomology from UC Davis and a B.S. in Biology from UNC Chapel Hill. Specializing in apiculture, she researched honey bee biology, behavior, and management. After recognizing the limitations of focusing solely on honey bees in industrial agriculture, she shifted her focus to the broader lessons of honey bee sociology. Nissa now works as a Learning Network Associate and Ecology Educator at Sterling College. In her free time, she enjoys pottery, sewing, knitting, and candle-making.

Pia Bakshi

A Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at University of Edinburgh and a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University, Pia is an author and an art educator. Trained in Modern Art at Oxford University (online certification), Pia has taught and tutored using art appreciation across academic spaces: government schools, IB schools, community centres, universities, colleges, corporate training programmes etc. Pia is also a scriptwriter and an independent researcher for theatre and documentaries. She served on the Board of Advisors for a school on Barefoot College's campus. She is presently a doctoral scholar in English at Ashoka University.

Paul Kronenberg

A leader is someone who uses his/her talents to lead the way in creating a better and more ethical tomorrow, EVERY DAY! Sabriye Tenberken and i founded kanthari. We offer a unique “Journey in five acts” Curriculum; an intense experiential and hand’s on learning experience we provide social change makers with all necessary tools to start, run and sustain own NGO’s. I am a “Social-Changineer”. With a technical background graduating in mechanical engineering, computer science, commercial technology and data-communication system science, i am interested in what ways of learning are most practical and impactful that result in positive change. In my life, i learnt that whenever ‘i have to’ becomes ‘i want to’, that is where the magic begins! Looking forward to an interesting interaction."

Phoebe Tickell

Phoebe Tickell is a scientist, systems thinker, visionary and founder of Moral Imaginations, a pioneering organisation dedicated to reimagining the world through collective imagination. She created the Moral Imagination approach to shift mindsets and drive systemic change. Their curriculum integrates complexity science, regenerative design, and holistic thinking, using embodied cognition techniques and imagination to foster kinship with humans and non-humans across time, and bring alive alternative visions of the future. By embedding connection to nature and future generations into leadership practices, Moral Imaginations is influencing a larger societal paradigm shift to a ‘life-centric society’. Phoebe is also a Scientific Advisor to the Inner Development Goals and an Edmund Hillary Fellow, holding a degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.

Pooven Moodley

Pooven Moodley is an international human rights and environmental lawyer from South Africa, and a social justice activist. He was the Executive Director of Natural Justice, a non-profit law firm supporting indigenous communities across Africa, and has held leadership roles at ActionAid and Oxfam. Pooven co-founded the Earthrise Collective and serves on various boards, including the ICCA Consortium and 350.org, working to protect territories of life and indigenous rights globally.

Rehana Tejpar

Rehana Tejpar, M.Ed., is a facilitator, leadership coach, mediator, and movement artist with over 15 years of experience guiding leaders and organizations toward authentic leadership, vision, and collaboration. As founder of Bloom Consulting, she strengthens teams' creative brilliance to move forward inclusively. Rehana practices Transformative Coaching, InterPlay, Mindfulness, Authentic Movement, and more. She lives in Montreal with her family and co-stewards land in Ontario, learning to rewild and heal with nature.

Sara Estela Pereira Correa

Sara Estela Pereira Correa, Educadora Social, no projeto Uni_Diversidade da Quebrada, Liderança de adolescentes/jovens, no território de União de Vila Nova SP. Focalização e mobilização, em ações com foco em desenvolvimento humanitário, ambiental, poético e cultural. Fundadora do projeto Café de Saturno, que tem como ideal promover a escrita criativa, através de diálogos de vivências entre adolescentes e jovens. Sou integrante do Marcianos, Pérolas e Jornadão da UniKebradas, que dádiva uma educação no mínimo desenrolada que valoriza o amor e o respeito acima de tudo, fui cativada por essa forma de conhecimento, ou melhor de amor.

Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar (born 9 August 1936) is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a peace walk of over 8,000 miles in June 1962 for two and a half years, from New Delhi to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.

Shruti Tharayil

Shruti has a penchant for weaving stories at the intersection of biodiversity, caste and food systems. Her world-view is shaped most significantly by her experiences of her journey with a multitude of communities – indigenous, dalit, and pastoral communities across Southern India, which has strengthened her narratives and collaborative work. She founded Forgotten Greens, an initiative that works on reviving the fast disappearing traditions of consuming uncultivated foods. This year she embarked upon a solo cycling yatra across South India, documenting lesser-known food stories. You can contact her @shruti.rt@gmail.com

Siddiq Khan

Siddiq grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He has been exploring the intersections of nature connection, meditation, and psychedelic medicine for the last 15 years. He has spent months on intensive silent retreat, focusing particularly on nature-based practices of embodied contemplation such as pilgrimage and wilderness rites of passage. He has developed relationships with many species of fungi, building bioreactors and countless compost piles to produce inoculum for feeding soil fertility, foraging for wild edible and medicinal mushrooms, fermenting food and drink with wild and cultivated aerobic and anaerobic fungi, and setting up a laboratory for cloning and growing wild and cultivated species for mycoprotien, mycogardening, and mycotherapy. He has grown intimate with the life-cycles of mushrooms, from spores to mycelium to fruit. His investigation of psychedelic fungi has led him to study the ethnomycological traditions of the world, from modern curanderos to precolonial Native Americans, Siberian shamans, ancient Greek Mysteries, all the way back to the ceremonial practices of our paleolithic ancestors.

Stela

Sou mulher de terra, fogo, água e ar, éter e arco-íris nessa terra. Terráquea que veio expressar através da fotografia do instante, a emoção e as diversas sensações em "SER" e "ESTAR" nessa aventura chamada vida. Apaixonada pela natureza, buscando um sentido na vida mais natural, saudável e sustentável. Arquiteta de terra, bioconstrutura e Coordenadora de Comunicação do Instituto Etno. Idealizadora da Efêmera Arte, empresa de fotografia e da Universidade do Audiovisual da Ecoversidade Intercultural Etno. Tutora de oficinas de fotografia, audiovisual e descolonização do olhar. Acredita na expressão única de cada ser humano, como potência divina, fazendo acontecer dos encontros essenciais para o autoconhecimento e expansão.

tayla shanaye

tayla is a biculturally Black living body engaged in somatic decolonial Black feminist scholarship, education, and counseling. Currently, tayla provides somatically-oriented therapeutic coaching for private clients, serves as a lead facilitator and co-director for nature-connection and relational-education center Weaving Earth, facilitates organizational diversity, equity, and access trainings, and teaches special topics in race, political somatic psychology, and liberation practice at the university level. tayla lives in the Anishinaabeg territory of so-called Marquette, MI, with their two young children, spouse, and dogs.

Wangũi wa Kamonji

Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner researching and translating indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art and honey to provide rooted embodied tools for us to decolonise and reindigenise. Informed by research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan dance and movement practice; ancestral connection, processwork, and nervous system relation work, Wangũi tends the organism fromtheroots, an unlearning ecoversity supporting individuals' and communities' transitions from coloniality to the pluriverse through transformational training, coaching and practice accompaniment.

Will Scott

Will is a nature-based educator and guide, a co-founder and program director at the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, and life-long apprentice to the natural world. For decades, his work has been guided by the question, “How do we educate for these times?” This inquiry led him to study and work at the entangled intersections of collapse, where he supports people to unlearn (and learn from) the toxicity of traumatic legacies, while simultaneously remembering the inherent wholeness that comes through re-enchantment, reconnection, and repair. Will is committed to laughter, joy, embodiment, play, love, and the mystery of interrelationship as critical ingredients to our collective response.

Contributors

Adriele Fonseca

Anne-Kathrin Schwab

Amandine Gameiro

Beverly Bravo

Bianca Najara Câmera

Calum McGeown

Camilo Bossio

Chuck Peters

Danilo de Carvalho

Duncan Crowley

Elena Pardo

Etsuko Gorst

Helen Hughes

Isamar Cerón

Jaelene Mina

Jelena Mazaj

John Michael ‘JM’ Lopez

Juan José Lugo Bernal

Julián Poma "Juli"

Karina Rodriguez

Kierstin Rossling

Ken Boyle

Kazu Haga

Lisa Trocchia

Maureen Momo Freehill

Megan Daalder

Morongwa Masemula

Nandini Gosine-Mayrhoo

Nantu Larrea Laurini

Neima Paz

Olga Paredes Alcoreza

Richard ‘Aki’ Divina

Sergio Álvarez

Silvia Rocha

Sinéad Sheehan

Simona Palumbo

Susan Bosak

Suzana Nory

Tasia Mattos

Teresa Posakony

Tina Costa

Vanessa Meng

Wakanyi Hoffman

Adrián González

Albert Salazar

Alice Adnet

Ana Margarida Esteves

Asato Nakamura

Barnaby Willett

brontë velez

Eliza Bernal de Oliveira

Gisele Paulino

Jawdat Kassab

Jesed Mateo

John Barry

Kate Rudd

Keala Young

Marlene Fantini

Mark Kelly

Mariha Proaño

Mndawe Khethiwe Bikirah

Monica Rosales

Monica Bonilla