communication, facilitation and currency innovation for deep adaptation to climate chaos. He authored the viral ‘Deep Adaptation’ paper, downloaded around a million times. He has worked for over 25 years on social and organizational change, in more than twenty countries, with business, voluntary organizations and political parties. With 100-plus publications, including five for the United Nations, and involvement in developing multistakeholder initiatives, he was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Tereza Čajkova has been working in the field of education for sustainable development, focusing on questions related to what kind of learning and skills we need to face unprecedented global challenges together. She is currently working towards a PhD at the University of British Columbia. Her research is oriented on extending theories of social innovation beyond prevalent paradigms to support more socially and ecologically accountable innovation practices.
Katie Carr, MA, is a facilitator of collaborative learning with seventeen years’ experience within formal education, with communities and within organizations. Her practice focuses on bringing conscious, loving awareness to the relational space between people where we can explore what it means to be human and alive together. As Senior Facilitator for the Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF), Katie has led the development of a community of practice for facilitators. Katie teaches leadership at Masters level and also acts as a guide and coach to senior leaders in the voluntary, private and public sectors who are working on the climate crisis.
Gauthier Chapelle is a Belgian author, lecturer and in-Terre-dependent researcher in biomimicry and collapsology, as well as a father, naturalist, agricultural engineer and doctor in polar biology. He was one of the pioneers of biomimicry in Europe (2003) and of the Work that Reconnects, inspired by Joanna Macy (2010), which he still offers with Terr’Eveille. Since 2015, he encourages organizational and ‘low-tech’ biomimicry in anticipation of the civilization collapse, alongside his friends and co-authors Pablo Servigne (‘Mutual aid, the other law of the jungle’) and Raphaël Stevens (‘Another end of the world is possible’, with Pablo Servigne).
Jonathan Gosling is Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Exeter University. He is now an independent academic with roles in the Forward Institute, promoting responsible leadership in government, NGOs and business; and supporting the frontline leadership of HIV and malaria control programs in Africa. He represented UK universities at the Rio+20 UN Sustainability summit and contributes to the ‘greening’ of management education, e.g. as co-author of the textbook Sustainable Business: A One Planet Approach and co-founder of One Planet Education Networks (OPEN). He worked for many years as a community mediator, co-founded Coachingourselves.com and is a keen sailor.
Sean Kelly, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He is the author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation; Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era; co-editor of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era; and co-translator of Edgar Morin’s Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for the New Millennium. Along with his academic work, Sean teaches Taiji and is a facilitator of the group process the Work that Reconnects.
Joanna Macy, PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, deep ecology and general systems theory and a respected voice in the movements for peace, justice and ecology. She is the root teacher of the Work that Reconnects and author of many articles and books, including Coming Back to Life; World as Lover, World as Self; Active Hope (with Chris Johnstone); Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory; Widening Circles: A Memoir; and In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus (with Anita Barrows).
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Drawing on different critiques of colonialism and human exceptionalism, her research examines the interface between historical, systemic and ongoing forms of violence, and the material and existential dimensions of unsustainability within modernity. She is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and one of the initiators of the In Earth’s Care Network of indigenous communities in Latin America.
Rupert Read is a professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is author of eleven books, including This Civilisation is Finished (2019) and A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment (2018). He is a former chair of Green House think tank, and a former Green Party of England and Wales councillor, spokesperson, European parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. He has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the Ecologist and a range of other newspapers and websites.
Skeena Rathor, a Sufi Kashmiri, helped by her three daughters, the family, the community of Stroud and the woodlands, spends time dancing between outward commitments. She works as a district councillor, co-founder of the Compassionate Stroud Project and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, including the Co-Liberation and Power-fullness Project. Skeena has been teaching body-brain and heart-brain restoration work for 20 years, with a specialist focus on birth, mothering health, child development, breath, trauma and love – possessing thirteen certifications. Grief resulting from relationship losses has led Skeena to be a campaigner, activist and activator since the age of fifteen.
Daniel Rodary, an ecologist, initially studied emperor penguins and worked in the management of international scientific projects (International Council of Science, the Cousteau Society in Sudan) and as a guide-lecturer in polar regions (Antarctica, Spitzbergen, Greenland). Since 2010, he has been a coordinator of reforestation projects with local farmers in Haïti, India and Mexico, as well as an organic farmer in France and then South India. Since 2010, he has given lectures on climate change, planetary boundaries and biomimicry, co-founded Deep Adaptation Auroville in South India and is now involved in Deep Adaptation France (Adaptation radicale).
Pablo Servigne is an agricultural engineer with a PhD in biology (Belgium). He quit the academic world in 2008 to become an author and lecturer. He is the author of many articles and books about collapse, transition, resilience, agroecology and mutual aid, and is now editor-in-chief of the French magazine Yggdrasil. With Raphaël Stevens, he coined the word ‘collapsology’ in 2015 for the transdisciplinary study of the collapse of our civilization and the biosphere.
Charlotte Simpson is in the final stage of an MSc in sustainable food and natural resources. Her current research focuses on sustainable diets, the significance of social and cultural influences on behaviour change, long-term maintenance of behaviour change and the role of education for social transformation in the face of climate breakdown.
Dino Siwek is an independent researcher from Brazil with a background in anthropology and social communication. His work focuses on the interactions between ecological crises and systemic violences and on experimental and counter-intuitive ways of learning that involve embodied practices as a way of finding deeper possibilities of being in and with the world. He is co-founder of the Terra Adentro project.
Matthew Slater builds and runs open-source software for community currencies. His activism touches on various other topics, ranging from researching monetary theory to community building to the politics of software. He co-authored the Money & Society MOOC with Jem Bendell and has contributed to a handful of academic papers.
Sharon Stein is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research brings critical and decolonial perspectives to the study and practice of internationalization, decolonization, and sustainability in higher education. Through this work, she engages the challenges, complexities and possibilities of addressing the interrelated ecological, cognitive, affective, relational, political and economic dimensions of local and