Tom Henfrey is Research Coordinator for the ECOLISE network of European community-led sustainability initiatives.

With an academic background in Human Ecology, he has written and edited several books and numerous articles on grassroots action for sustainability. As a shamanic practitioner and permaculturist, he has a passion for working with edges: between the visible and the invisible, between the possible and the tangible, and between different ways of knowing, being and acting whose apparent conflict masks a broader perspective waiting to emerge.

Tom’s gift is an unpublished extended version of a chapter he wrote for the Para-Academic Handbook (with more detail on the permaculture. The original is in Wardrop, A. & D. Withers (eds.) The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting. London: HammerOn Press.

The full book is available for download here: https://www.hammeronpress.net/shop/precarity/the-para-academic-handbook/

Passionate about joy, collaboration, collective learning, awareness based practices, wisdom, innovation, happiness,purpose and meaning creation .

Helping companies to become beautiful spaces for profound humanity and positive impact - towards Humanity & Planet higher Work and Self

Franz Josef Allmayer is a universal citizen with roots between Austria and Guatemala. These contrasting yet complementary perspectives allowed him to question existing cultural paradigms built on scarcity from an early age.

Dedication to the fields of innovation and global development has enabled Franz to gather transdisciplinary experience working with international organizations, governments, the private sector, NGOs, and academia. This process allowed him to recognize pervading patterns and embrace a whole-systems approach to development that effectively provides value towards the entirety of the system.
In recognition of the need to unite fragmented efforts towards a cocreative development process that effectively addresses the challenges of today, motivates Franz to create the tools, processes, and on the ground collaborations to support the development of regenerative bioregional economies.

An avid explorer he has visited 77 countries, where he has formed a solid network of collaborators. In his free time, you will encounter Franz finding inspiration in nature, climbing volcanoes, and exchanging with leaders across multiple disciplines.

As a social entrepreneur, Katharina Serafimova believes that food is a powerful opportunity to re-connect nature and community.

She has many years of experience in international project development and management, has worked with consulting, sustainable finance and NGOs in the area of sustainable resources, agriculture and finance.

Since 2014 she is a lecturer at University of Zurich. Since 2017, she supports and co-creates the initiative Terra Sintropica and the local food networks in Mértola / Portugal.

Alan is an internationally recognized thought-leader in risk management.

As one of 25 founding members of the RiskMetrics Group (now part of MSCI), he authored Risk Management: A Practical Guide (1999) and published articles in the Asia Wall Street Journal and other financial media.   

Alan started his career as a researcher in JPMorgan’s corporate risk management group in New York, after receiving a degree in Industrial Engineering at Stanford University in 1993.  Research included hedge fund risk analysis, default risk modeling, economic capital allocation, and market and credit risk integration. As a Vice-President in JPMorgan's Risk Management Solutions group, Alan advised global financial institutions on enterprise risk management.

Alan is inspired by evolutionary ecosystems, and his most recent publication is Adaptive Risk Management: Powered by Network Science. Alan’s mission is to catalyze a global risk culture to protect the systems that sustain us.

Alan started the Natural Capital Markets group at Lykke Corp, and listed TREE, the world’s first mangrove and carbon credit backed digital token.

Alan’s most recent article is Growing An Earth Positive Economy

Here’s his SHIFT Manifesto Interview

Serving the Regenerative Renaissance and decentralizing abundance.

Facilitator and various roles at SEEDS (Regenerate Money) and Hypha (Regenerate Organisations).

Keshav has recieved transmissions in a range of ancient Indian wisdom traditions including Dhrupad music, Vajrayana Buddhism, Satipatthana Vipassana (insight meditation through mindfulness), Advaita Vedanta and Yoga.

He offers inter disciplinary retreats and sessions with an aim to awake into the formless.Central to his approach is the use of the arts in awakening, particularly those of music, movement and poetry and he plays the veena to this effect.

Keshav seeks to find contemporary applications and language for ancient wisdom and sees the importance of reconstructing the ancient through the lens of the present.He writes at dharmayog.wordpress.com

Vivien’s curiosity and penchant for new experiences have led her to a meandering career path. It’s always a challenge to label and explain what she does. Yet, this unconventional journey has prepared her to be adaptable to change and be comfortable with the unknown.  

She has been experimenting and collaborating at the intersection of design, emerging technology, and social science for over 10 years. Before that, she spent nearly a decade sharpening my design and transcultural sensibility in Tokyo and suburban Japan. After failing to scale corporate innovation and implement cultural change, she left the ego-driven battlefield to focus on inner work. In the process, she rediscovered inherent skills and cultivated social art practices. Through scribing, systemic constellation coaching and facilitating co-creative workshops, she supports individuals, teams, and organizations to gain clarity, be more attentive and conscious of their intentions and actions as they navigate complexities and uncertainties. 

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Tânisi, Ashati Sakahikan, Erin Dixon nitisiyihkâson, Skeleton Lake, Lake Couchiching Ohci Niya.  Greetings! I belong to the sacred crystal-clear waters of Skeleton Lake in the traditional territories of the Anishinabek Peoples, where today many Nations are settled together from across Turtle Island and Mother Earth.

I relate to the nêhiyawa concept, Otipemisiwak, “the free people who define themselves” and am a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and learn, work and grow together with many Nations of peoples from across Turtle Island.Walking with vision and all of life in mind, I am committed to the spirit and work of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, rising out of Buffalo Guardian Mountain. 

I have had the opportunity to carry different roles and in the essence of collective leadership currently act as lead faculty for the Truth and Reconciliation through Right Relations and Wise Practices for Indigenous Leaders offerings. 

At home, I am grateful to be grounded in community and lift up the vision of the Feather Carriers: Leadership for Life Promotion as an advisory co-chair and Ozhiitaajig facilitator, sitting within the Bwaajigewin Dream Drum Circle.  I also serve as a board director within the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, First Peoples Committee.  I continue to move, share and support many spaces within our local to planetary waterways.  Locally I also support the bio-regional movement within the Truth and Reconciliation through Right Relations Round Table and the emerging Gojijing Gathering.  

For 7 years I had the opportunity to serve as an Indigenous awareness trainer within the OPP, leading community directed initiatives, co-facilitating weeklong sessions for law and community service partners, alongside working with amazing youth leaders in cultivating resurgence and regeneration.  I am grateful for my deep roots and the stories that I carry in my life bundle, acknowledging all of the land, beings and organizations I have had the opportunity to sit with and listen to. 

As a weaver and life giver I carry an MA in Global Leadership from Royal Roads University, land based post-grad studies in EcoPsychology, Getting to Maybe systems change residency and the integral teachings shared within the Feather Carriers Leadership trainings and Bio-regionalism by Design short course.

Through my own lived experience, I understand our inherent capacity to thrive through complex change, the power of grounding natural law and wisdom in action, and the simplicity of living our prophecies in the spirit of our times.  Naturally walking between and bridging different worlds and spheres of knowing, interweaving pathways towards what is possible and the essence of what is being called to the spiral of life.

Claire is on a long and intimate inquiry around conflict’s transformative potential. Having worked within the social and ecological change movement for more than two decades she has witnessed and participated in the full kaleidoscope of the good, the bad and the ugly.

Claire is deeply committed to cleaning up her own act around conflict. This has involved learning how to feel and alchemise both her fear and vulnerability, and her fiery rage – and an ongoing process of radical inclusivity. This 'healing and wholing' process involves learning to love all parts of ourselves, and especially those our patriarchal culture finds hardest to accept. This liberatory path sees Claire more and more able to embrace the rupture and repair needed for healthy and transformative relating and collaborating.

Claire's professional experience ranges from working for NGOs like Global Justice Now! War on Want and Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, through to; co-founding Transition Bristol; coordinating the internationally renowned No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign; Sustainable Food Coordinator for Bristol City Council; living and working as an activist facilitator for 2.5 years at Ecodharma, a buddhist community and education centre in a wild and remote part of the Catalunyan Pyrenees; and most recently working for Transition Network as the Inner Transition Coordinator, integrating the inner dimension of change across the international Transition movement. Currently Claire works for Starter Culture, a new initiative cohering alliances around radical inner-led change to help return the inner dimension of life back to the epi-centre of our individual and collective experience. As part of this work she convenes the Art of Activism a year-long programme supporting participants to resource radical change from the inside out.

Alongside ongoing embodied awakening work, Claire is also apprenticing as a soul initiation and underworld Guide with Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute, in her commitment to supporting people to reveal and live as their unique soul purpose.

An experienced somatic coach and creative trainer/facilitator with a local and global clientele, Allie is a poet who loves offering embodiment practices, using the Theory U process, Social Presencing Theatre and ancient yoga and energy medicine practices. Allie has been meditating and practicing yoga for over 45 years, grateful for growing up in a family immersed in the wisdom traditions. 

Strongly committed to creativity and contemplative inquiry in her work as a conscious change-maker, Allie enjoyed a long career as an inside start-up team developer and innovative leader in museums, business and behavioral healthcare. An early consultant to Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living, she continues to mentor leaders for individual and systems transformation and is commissioned to write a book about moving from ME to WE in the emerging yoga therapy professional space.

Allie migrated from NYC north  in the Hudson River Valley healing and listening with the land for 20 years of rural homesteading.  She has enjoyed an abundance of global work travel, including wilderness training for corporate teams undergoing hostile takeovers. She landed and found love in Albany NY in the late 1990’s. Her passion is hosting the invisible, helping others sense into and welcome the emerging magic of being... connected to all that is.

A licensed psychotherapist in NY and a professional level yoga teacher, Allie earned the International Yoga Therapists Association advanced certification in yoga therapy, is an advanced facilitator of Social Presencing Theatre, a master energy medicine and NLP practitioner certified by the Four Winds Society and the NLP Center of New York. 

Allie Middleton JD LCSW E-RYT C-IAYT Contact: alliemiddleton@mac.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alliemiddleton

poetry book; https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/allie-middleton/a-wayfinders-wanderings-a-first-collection-of-poems/paperback/product-1dgpvkmy.html

A fugitive to manicured the disciplinarity of the academe, speaker, and proud diaper-changer, Bayo leads an earth-wide organization (The Emergence Network) as its Chief Curator and Director.

The organization is set up for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilizational crisis - a project framed within a feminist ethos and inspired by indigenous cosmologies. He considers this a shared art - exploring the edges of the intelligible, dancing with posthumanist ideas, dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the liberating sermon of an ecofeminism text, and talking with others about how to host a festival in Brazil - and part of his inner struggle to regain a sense of rootedness to his community. He also hosts a course (We Will Dance with Mountains) among other offerings. 

Bayo is visiting professor at Middlebury College, Vermont, and has taught in universities around the world (including Sonoma State University California, Simon Frasier University Vancouver, Schumacher College Devon, Harvard University, and Covenant University Nigeria – among others). He is a consultant with UNESCO.

Bayo has authored two books, ‘We Will Tell Our Own Story!’ and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home’, and has penned forewords for many others.

www.bayoakomolafe.net 

www.emergencenetwork.org 

Toni is a curator with The Emergence Network, leading on Vulture, Courting the Otherwise in a Time of Breakdown. 

She’s interested in where the intersections of personal, political and poetic can offer new ways of being together. One way this shows up is through her work with and as ’the pause’, “...a radical act, an invitation to stop in the midst of action, to disrupt our normal modes of being, to collectively fall silent and become aware of the moment we’re in.”

She is a Deep Adaptation Advocate since 2018, including a new course re-designed for the Covid era Living Deep Adaptation as well as Kissing The Void; Deep Adaptation and the Creative Spirit.

Toni has taught on the faculty of Schumacher College (Educational Practice, Ecological Facilitation as Leadership, Embodied Eco-literacy, Sacred Activism, Ethical Entrepreneurship) and at Goldsmiths, University of London (EcoDesign) as well as hosting workshops and grief tending in to activist and community spaces. She is a tutor, trainer and mentor on Call of the Wild with Schumacher Collage/Wildwise. 

Toni’s work as a facilitator, poet and mentor seeks to enable a richer engagement with the ecological, cultural and social issues of our times. She creates spaces where grit, grief, messiness, and laughter are welcome and where new kinds of wisdom and power can emerge.
http://www.tonispencer.co.uk/

Iokiñe Rodríguez is a Venezuelan sociologist, based at the School of International Development (DEV) from the University of East Anglia, UK, where she works as Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development.

She specializes on local environmental knowledge and conflict transformation in Latin America using participatory action-research. She has worked in Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Colombia building local and institutional capacity to transform environmental conflicts. Her work on environmental conflict transformation focuses on issues of local history, local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue.  She is committed to making research a tool for social transformation and overcoming power asymmetries, using tools such as participatory videos, talking maps and community authored books, to help empower local communities, revitalise their culture and knowledge and strengthen the self esteem and the sense of dignity. She is co-founder of Grupo Confluencias, a consortium of Latin American conflict practitioners, researchers and institutions actively engaged for more than 10 years developing processes of environmental conflict transformation, and who have been working together since 2005 in the development of a platform for deliberation, joint research, and training in this topic.

Current co-representative and co-founder of Transition Japan.

Started Transition movement in 2008 with four colleagues visiting Findhorn at the Positive Energy Conference. Also have been a trainer for Transition training since 2009. Now living in a self-sustainable lifestyle with half self-built home and off-grid energy lifestyle.

Moved to find solutions to the actual eco-systemic, social, economic, and spiritual crisis, Anahí feels the call to support building communities that place in the center of every decision and action the care for life and love.

To co-create a new human culture of peace, holistic and integrative. Transpersonal Psychologist and Master in Systemic Therapy, with 25 years of experience and professional training in personal and spiritual growth methodologies.

She is trained as Biodanza and Meditation teacher, Eco-social facilitator and Group therapist, among others. In her spiritual journey, she has been nourished by the therapeutic-meditative vision of Osho (Zen and Tantra), and has had the opportunity to experience and honor different paths of shamanic traditions. Today she connects deeply with the Sufi path vision, in its purpose of integrating the common factor present in all traditions and religions, what we could call Sacred Activism. Understanding that every different slope that is born, flows and reaches finally the same Ocean. 

During her university teachings in the degree of Engineering in Expeditions and Ecotourism (2012-2019), in 2013 she met Permaculture, thus starting her journey to become a Gaia Education Trainer. In 2017 she entered the Chilean Institute of Permaculture and Transition.

Since 2019 she is an active member of the Transition Movement Hubs Heart Circle, collaborating especially in revitalizing Trainings for Transition, and in the reemergence of the Inner Transition Group. Simultaneously she collaborates with CASA Latina to activate Gaia Education EDE and GEDS presential and online programs on a Latin American scale.

Currently she facilitates Eco-social Transformative processes in organizations and local communities, and shares her practice of psychospiritual accompaniment, both face-to-face and virtually. 

Marta was born and raised in El Salvador. She is working and living in El Salvador as a biologist, theologian, educator, permaculturist, ecologist. Marta has worked all her life to manifest a culture of peace in her country and the world. She is part of the leadership of various networks at the national and international levels, both in secular and religious contexts, working on culture of peace, sustainability, inclusiveness, and women rights.

She follows various UN processes under Commission of Social Development, Commission for Sustainable Development, Education for Sustainability, UNESCO Decade for Education for Culture of Peace, Decade of Non-Violence, and Life-Long Learning.

Marta is the recipient of various international awards. She is a recognized writer, and has published a number of articles and chapters in a variety of journals and books She speaks Spanish and English and creates butterfly and humming bird gardens in her country and abroad.

Marta Benavides of El Salvador is one of the surviving activists from the original group of human rights and peace advocates who began their work during the 1970s and the rising climate of repression. A leader of an ecumenical revolution focused on bringing peace to her country, the ordained pastor who chose “to live and not die for the revolution” has been bringing people at all levels – politics, the arts, law enforcement, agriculture and food security, environment, religion and labor – together to defend human rights and develop a culture of peace.

During the early 1980s, Benavides was head of the Ecumenical Committee for Humanitarian Aid, a group sponsored by her close friend Archbishop Oscar Romero to support victims of violence. With the committee, she established the first refugee centers for people displaced by the violence. Almost two years after Romero’s assassination, Benavides went into exile and worked for the next decade from Mexico and the United States to bring an end to the war in her home country. With Ecumenical Ministries for Development and Peace, she developed programs to promote understanding and reconciliation among peoples and groups and end intra- and inter-family violence. She also built networks of international solidarity for a negotiated peaceful political solution to the conflict in El Salvador.

In 1992 after the peace accords were signed, Benavides returned home and founded the International Institute for Cooperation Amongst Peoples, also known as the Institute for the 23rd Century, which promotes the values of a culture of peace through a variety of programs. She established community training centers and continues to travel throughout the country conducting workshops on, among other topics, sustainable agriculture, human rights and the prevention of community and family violence, particularly violence against women and children. Her efforts have led to extensive collaboration with the United Nations, the World Council of Churches, secular and ecumenical networks and numerous other partners, and in 2005 she was one of the 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Benavides has dedicated her life to rebuilding communities devastated by war and has brought renewal, both figurative and literal, to formerly scorched earth.

Benavides was a Woman PeaceMaker in 2009.

Charles Eisenstein is a popular philosopher, author, and internationally renowned speaker and program facilitator. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible.

His most recent book Climate: A New Story addresses the impacts of climate change. Flipping the script on climate change, Charles makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction.

Deborah Heifetz is a co-founder and co-director of BraveHearts International, a social business that supports systemic change and peacebuilding by training and coaching leaders and activists in personal growth, nonviolent communication, embodiment practices, group facilitation and non-hierarchical decision-making.  She is a mediator, certified Y.P.O. Forum Facilitator, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) who holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, an M.A. in Dance and a B.A. in Genetics.

Heifetz has served as a special advisor to the Crisis Management Team of the Israeli Police. She developed the concept “non-mediated peacekeeping” from her ethnographic study of gender and Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation during the Oslo years (1994-2000) and acted in Track II Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.  In 2007 she co-founded the peace-building and community development NGO – HiMaT – with projects in Pakistan, and later engaged in the international grassroots movement known as the Transition Network, where she co-founded the Israeli Hub and supported as a mediator.

Dr. Heifetz spent years on faculty at Tel Aviv University where she integrated her diverse background and training to educate graduate students of International Conflict Resolution and Mediation in ‘Culture, Conflict and Community Development.’  Working in collaboration with Kibbutz Neot Semadar (Israel), she bridged academia and community development through deep personal learning.  Her teaching approach incorporates years on faculty at Haifa University’s dance/movement therapy program. After moving to Cologne, Germany in 2014, she co-created Embodied Leadership Training to support leaders and emerging leaders to communicate under conflict using movement and somatic practices.  She produced on-site dance performances for the Global Water Dances in Israel and Lake Orta, engaging a Flashmob to bring awareness of water issues through the art of dance.  Heifetz is a Chevening Scholar (University of Manchester and University of Cambridge). She brings over 30 years experience as a peace activist, social scientist and somatic educator working at the nexus of inner and outer peace.

Deborah Heifetz moved to Lake Orta in northern Italy in 2019 with her collaboration partner and husband, Frieder Krups, to apply their respective lifetimes of knowledge, experience and activist engagement. Together with local Italian change-makers, they are supporting their newly adopted geo-region to become a prototype for human scale, community-based sustainable development that embraces creativity and the arts. 

Don Hall has had the good fortune to participate in the international Transition Towns Movement in a variety of capacities over the past 12 years. Initially serving for two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, he went on to found and direct Transition Sarasota from 2010 to 2016.

A certified Transition Trainer and experienced facilitator, Don was named Co-Director of Transition US in 2017. He holds a master's degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University and lives in the community in Sarasota, Florida.