Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher and writer. His work focuses on a re-evaluation of our understanding of the living. Read More…

Andy led MA Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College and Andy has doctorates in Ecology (Oxford University – studying patterns of distribution of mammals at the continental level) and in the Study of Religion (King Alfred’s College, Winchester – researching bardic performance within contemporary Druidry and radical environmental protest movements). Read More…

Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is an active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, film maker and respected academic researcher, Winner of the 2024 Geoethics Medal… Read More…

Christian Felber is a writer, university lecturer, initiator of the “Economy for the Common Good“ and the “Cooperative for the Common Good“. Read More…

David Bollier is Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for New Economics in the U.S. He’s an author, activist, blogger and independent scholar with a primary focus on the commons. Read More…

Emma works in the field art and ecology making performance, site-specific walks, writing and workshops. Emma’s practice maps processes of exchange between ourselves and others, including animals, weather systems, oceans, forests, villages, cities, countries. Read More…

Ezekiel Fugate is the co-founding director of Deep Belonging, a co-founder of Springhouse Community School, and a co-editor of Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology. Read More…

Freya Mathews is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Latrobe University, Australia. She is the author of over one hundred books, articles and essays on ecological philosophy. Read More…

Helena is the director of Local Futures, is a linguist, author and filmmaker. With decades of experience in indigenous cultures, she has been promoting re-indigenisation or localisation while raising awareness about the disastrous impact of the global consumer culture. Read More

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London.

Ilektra Kouloumpi is a senior expert in post-growth economics, bringing over 15 years of hands-on experience in driving systems change and advancing sustainability transitions. Read More…

Since experiencing the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011, Jacqueline has been engaging the living world in rituals of healing and connection through drawing and walking labyrinths. Read More…

Dr Joanne Peers is a Researcher at the Origins Centre at The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Joanne is the Education Strategy Lead at Nature Environment Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF), an African NPO.  She is the awardee of a seed grant in the Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change (ESCC) project at The Vrije University of Amsterdam. Read more…

Jonathan Dawson has worked for the last 30 years at the intersection of international development, global justice, sustainable community and holistic education.  During this time, he has worked as a project manager, researcher/author and educator.  He is widely published in the fields of community economic development, North and South. Read More…

June Mitchell follows the Plum Village tradition, founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. She teaches 'Way of the Heart', a Qi Kong exercise with a long light bamboo stick, which she learnt at the monastery in France. She also guides walking and sitting meditation and deep relaxation. She taught at  Schumacher College and Forty Two Acres.

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. Read More…

Dr Martin Shaw is a writer, mythographer, and Christian thinker. He founded the MA Myth and Ecology and MA Poetics of Imagination programmes at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. Read More…

Co-Founder of Social Contemporâneo and the Regenerative Business Hub. With 28 years of experience in corporate sustainability, she is a consultant in strategic design based on living systems, as well as an entrepreneur and activist. Read More…

Natasha is a systems convener, commoner, social entrepreneur, and regenerative strategist with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of food systems, commons governance, and regenerative finance. Read More…

Peter Reason was Director of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice at the University of Bath, and an international leader in the development of participative approaches to inquiry. Read More…

Sandra Wooltorton is from Noongar Boodjar, also known as southwest Western Australia. She works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame Australia, in Yawuru Country (aka Broome) in the Western Australian Kimberley region. Read More…

Toomas is mostly an educator, facilitator and organizer, but also an author. He has published a book “Stories That Create” and has launched his own video and podcast channels. Read More…