Our members come from diverse backgrounds, but they all share a deep concern and expertise about the impact of contemporary worldviews on planetary health and wellbeing. They also share a desire to find a balance between the best of ancient and indigenous practices and understanding and the best of modern thinking and approaches, including the positive use of technology.
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Wendy Ellyatt is currently leading the development of the Sacred Ecologies Collaboration. She is the founder of The Flourish Project, sits on the Global Council of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), is an active member of the Harvard Human Flourishing Program's Special Interest Group Network, is a co-founder of Living Cities Earth, chairs the UK Spirituality in Education Alliance (SIEUK), is a member of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Thought Leaders Circle, a catalyst member of the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), a co-author of the Unitive Narrative, a contributor to the 2023 Holomovement book, is leading the development of the Unitive Education Collaboration (UEC) and is one of the Brahma Kumaris 'One Hundred Women of Spirit'. She has a long-term interest in, and involvement with, ancient and indigenous worldviews and approaches and currently acts as an advisor to a number of futurist cultural transformation initiatives, including those exploring the transformation of education systems and the positive use of digital technology/AI. www.wendyellyatt.com
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Gay Bradshaw For the past twenty-five years, Gay's work has been dedicated to the self-determination and well-being of Wildlife and domesticated Animals. Her diagnosis of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) among free-living African Elephants sparked a new paradigm of understanding, trans-species psychology. Since 2002, Gay has studied and practiced mindfulness and meditation, and created Nature Mindfulness™ teachings where Animals, Plants and other Earth Beings are active partners in humanity’s evolution of consciousness. This work led to the founding of her nonprofit, The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence (www.kerulos.org), a teaching center and sanctuary located in Southern Oregon, U.S.A that translates principles of Nature Consciousness into everyday living.
Her books include Pulitzer-prize nominated Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity (Yale University Press, 2009), Carnivore Minds: Who these Fearsome Animals Really Are (Yale University Press 2017), Talking with Bears: Conversations with Charlie Russell (Rocky Mountain Books, 2020), The Elephant Letters: The Story of Billy and Kani (2014), How Landscapes Change (Springer-Verlag), and Minding the Animal Psyche (Spring 2010), |
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Dr Jude Currivan PhD is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. She has a Master’s degree in physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology and a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, UK in archaeology researching ancient cosmologies. She has travelled to over 80 countries, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the international author of 7 nonfiction books, latterly and both award-winning and best-selling The Cosmic Hologram (2017) and The Story of Gaia (2022). In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View. www.wholeworld-view.org to serve the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unitive awareness and conscious evolution. She is also a faculty member of Ubiquity University and Humanity’s Team.
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Dr Hannah Gosnell PhD is a Professor of Geography at Oregon State University who studies agricultural landscape change, collaborative conservation, climate change, and environmental governance in the context of rural working landscapes. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of rangeland management from a social-ecological systems perspective. She is particularly interested in the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the transition to regenerative agriculture and the implications for landowners’ capacity to adapt to social, economic and environmental change. Hannah earned her MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BA from Brown University.
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Dr. Largacha-Martinez PhD is a social futurologist who designs and develops social inventions using quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence. Carlos believes that society has to be more authentic in order to be more humane, and particularly at the workplace, where he has been leading the start-up ‘FlourishingAI’, linking humanistic and ethical leadership with NLP-natural language processing. He is an award-winning consultant by the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize: Leaders Everywhere Challenge, TEDx speaker, quantum & outplacement coach, and B-Corps multiplier. Currently he is the Colombia Director for the Swiss’ Humanistic Management Network and researcher for University Areandina (Colombia). Carlos holds a double Ph.D. in International Studies and Quantum Sociology from the University of Miami (USA), and is a post-doctoral Fulbright Visiting Scholar. He is leading the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) Hub in Colombia.
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David Lorimer is a visionary polymath who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, Editor of Paradigm Explorer and Chair of the Galileo Commission. His most recent books are A Quest for Wisdom and this collection of poems Better Light a Candle.
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Jyoti Ma is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher. She has cultivated projects that demonstrate ways of life that honor the Earth and all Peoples. As the Grandmother Vision Keeper of the Center for Sacred Studies (www.centerforsacredstudies.org), she co-founded Kayumari with spiritual communities both in America and Europe. Other projects she has helped to convene are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and the Unity Concert. She is the founder of The Fountain (https://thefountain.earth) Its mission is to restore an economic model that is based on reciprocity and collaboration guided by Nature and the Sacred.
She serves as a delegate of the Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations. And it is through this current work in collaboration with the Fountain, that a global Sacred Territories Initiative is evolving to protect Mother Earth's sacred sites and Her Original Peoples. Jyoti has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional medicine ways. Through this work collaborative relationships with organizations that are focused on economic, social and environmental solutions have developed, creatively addressing the global challenges of our times. |
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Eduard Müller PhD is the Founder and rector of the University for International Cooperation since 1994 working on permanent innovation in education, leading UCI to be a pioneer in online education in over 60 countries. He has been working on regenerative development for the last 15 years. In 2018 he launched Costa Rica Regenerativa (Regenerate Costa Rica), a national initiative to convert the country into an example of regeneration. He also helped launch the Regenerative Communities Network, a global alliance of bioregions doing regeneration. He is now working on a global program to train thousands of First Responders for Regeneration. UCI has begun the establishment of the Global Center for Regeneration on a 1000-acre farm in Guanacaste, to bring science and advanced technologies to regeneration efforts that provide solutions and training to reverse climate change and bring biodiversity levels to those needed to assure humanity recovers its safe operating space. He sits on the Global Council of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), the board of trustees of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR), the scientific advisor group to Soil In Formation, and many other organizations that are providing solutions to current challenges.
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Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She is the founder of the public and professional educational outreach project The Evolved Nest Initiative whose nonprofit mission is to share her science research into developing appropriate baselines for lifelong human wellness by meeting the biological needs of infants. Darcia is the current president of the award-winning, venerable nonprofit Kindred World, which develops strategies and initiatives for advancing a Wisdom-based, Wellness-Informed Society.
In 2022, Narvaez was elected a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest international body of professional scientists in the world and publisher of the prestigious journal Science. Narvaez was honored for her distinguished contributions illuminating typical and atypical development in terms of well-being, morality and sustainable wisdom. A recent emphasis in Narvaez's work involves indigenous wisdom, starting with her 2013 paper "The 99%--Development and socialization within an evolutionary context: Growing up to become 'A good and useful human being.'" She organized a conference in September 2016 called "Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous Knowhow for Global Flourishing" resulting in the volume, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom (2019). She and Four Arrows have a 2022 book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview. |
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Professor Susan Prescott MD PhD is a pediatrician, immunologist, artist and award-winning author, internationally recognised for her cutting-edge research into the early environmental determinants of health and disease www.drsusanprescott.com. Her work promotes awareness of the interconnections between personal and planetary health in a way that inspires wiser, creative, integrated approaches, grounded in reciprocity, for social and ecological justice and flourishing futures. Her current Positions include: Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia , Director of the Nova Network for planetary health and Scholar at the Nova Institute for Health (Baltimore, USA), Editor-in-Chief of Challenges Journal, President of inVIVO Planetary Health (2012-2022), Director of the ORIGINS PROJECT Telethon Kids Institute, Immunologist and Pediatrician at Perth Children's Hospital, and Adjunct Professor (Family and Community Medicine) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the prestigious Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She has been awarded more than $52 million in research grants as chief investigator and received numerous awards.
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Dr. Ricardo Rozzi PhD is a philosopher, biologist and an associate professor at the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Magallanes (UMAG) in Chile. His research combines both disciplines through the study of the interrelationships between ways of knowing and living in the natural world. At UNT, his work takes place within the Center for Environmental Philosophy, a leading center for environmental ethics programming worldwide. With these universities and the Institute for Ecology and Biodiversity, Ricardo established the Sub Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Programme, a programme that integrates ecological sciences and environmental philosophy.
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Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (PhD, LLM) is a futurist, entrepreneur, systems scientist, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and award-winning pioneer in human development and systems change. She is the founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre, co-founder of the EARTHwise DAO, initiator and architect of the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization, and lead architect of the EARTHwise Game for Civilizational Transformation. She is the co-author of the award-winning bestsellers of the Future Humans Trilogy, co-author of The New Paradigm in Politics, and author of Love Letters from Mother Earth. She holds a Master’s degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and received a degree of Doctor from the Maastricht Sustainability Institute of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She was awarded the 2022 Visioneers Lifetime Achievement Award, and was crowned overall African winner in the category "Human Development" of the 2022 Africa’s Most Respected CEOs Awards for CEOs' contributions to the attainment of SDGs by African States.
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Mirian Vilela PhD is the Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat and the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at UPEACE. She coordinates the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development with the Earth Charter and served as a member of the UNESCO Expert Reference Group for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD). Prior to her work with the Earth Charter, Mirian worked for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) for two years in preparation of the 1992 UN Earth Summit and a year at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Mirian holds a PhD. in Education from LaSalle University and a Master´s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was an Edward Mason Fellow.
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Stewart Wallis OBE is Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and a passionate advocate for a new economic system. He worked for Oxfam from 1992 to 2002, for which he was awarded an OBE. From 2003 to 2016, he was executive director of the New Economics Foundation. He holds degrees from Cambridge University and London Business School.
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Diana Whitney PhD is an American author, award-winning consultant and educator whose writings – 15 books and dozens of chapters and articles – have advanced the positive principles and practices of appreciative inquiry and social constructionist theory worldwide. Her work as a scholar practitioner has furthered both research and practice in the fields of appreciative leadership and positive organizational development. She was awarded Vallarta Institute’s Annual 2X2 (Two by Two) Recreate the World Award, was President of the Corporation for Positive Change (an international consulting group that she founded), a Fellow of the World Business Academy, a Founder and Director Emeritus of the Taos Institute and a founding advisor to the United Religions Initiative. She earned her PhD from Temple University.
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