Victoria is currently the Head of Physics and Assistant Head of Science at Hasmonean High School, an outstanding school ranked top non-selective comprehensive school in the country with consistently high standards in GCSE, AS and A Level examinations. Her experience in private, state and IB schools enabled her to inspire young people to integrate learned science concepts into their everyday life and expand their perception of the world. In order to further motivate students and help them better understand the practical nature of physics, Victoria has been organising different projects such as exploring renewable energy and scientific trips, one of which was the exciting visit to CERN. She recently completed her Masters in Environmental Engineering and is passionate about inspiring students to aim high, improve constantly and become lifelong learners.
A profound inner experience in 2007 radically changed the course of his life resulting in giving up his business. He devoted a lot of time to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation inside himself. It was time for change.
Leon became a social entrepreneur and started a charity to raise funds to feed children in developing countries. He helps people and businesses tap into their own greatness, empowering them to live a fully authentic life. During this time he has written three books.
In 2015 Leon went to Calais to cook for a few hundred refugees and ended up starting Calais Kitchens to supply foods to the thousands of refugees living in Northern France resulting in distributing food to more than 9000 people every week. All these experiences have resulted in his latest project: Compassion.
An accumulation of everything he has done in his life. Compassion will be a community restaurant where we focus on what we have in common not our differences. Sharing a meal has the power to create greater understanding and to change our perceptions. Compassion will be a community where we create a more beautiful world through the power of sharing a meal.
Prior to KPMG, Alina has worked for a carbon-asset manager, First Climate, in Zurich, focusing on policies related to carbon markets. Before that, as a Programme Officer at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change based in Bonn, she supported international negotiations on post-2012 climate change regime.
Her professional experience also includes work for the Environmental Defence Fund in Washington, DC, focusing on climate policy in economies in transition; for Metroeconomica Ltd on resource abundance and economic growth, and for the Bureau of Economic Analysis, on climate policy in Russia.
Alina has extensive experience in providing advisory and capacity building services to governments, UN organisations and private sector, and in facilitating interministerial and multi-stakeholder dialogues on climate change.
Alina holds a BSc in Geography from Moscow State University, and an MSc and a PhD in Economics and International Development from the University of Bath, focused on factors of effectiveness of international climate change regime.
Research interests
-Design of the international climate change regime;
-Low emission development strategies in developing countries;
-Climate finance;
-Subnational action around low carbon and green growth.
Robin is 70 and still full of energy with a strong desire for innovation and exploring ideas with a constant enquiring mind. He brings to any project or undertaking his experience in architecture and design for natural structures. Now living and working in Montenegro he specialises in renovation and construction of stone buildings for investors with a desire to follow the spiritual impact of building in a traditional way. Robin uses the strong and ancient form of divine proportions (golden proportions) to achieve not only the fusion of man and materials in buildings but the little recognised spiritual impact of peace of mind as occupiers.
Robin is one of the founder directors of the Montenegro Green Building Council and uses his position to encourage businesses connected with the construction industry to think of ways to rationalise energy used by the sector. On a personal level he advises on simple ways individuals can contribute by greening their own homes.
Robin left school and spent 6 years in the British Royal Navy after which he set up a small construction company based in London specialising in renovation and conversion of old houses into flats. This led to the company buying and developing their own properties thus growing the firm into a major property developer company. The company suffered during the 1990’s UK property collapse and went out of business. Robin then took the opportunity to study at Reading University for a diploma in Building Surveying. Qualifying after 4 years he set up his own professional building surveying practice in London mainly specialising in design and supervision of renovation of historic buildings; working with English Heritage and Society of Preservation of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
Robin visited Montenegro in 2000 after the Balkan conflict ended and fell in love with the country and decided to make it his home. After taking 2 years to close his Surveying practise in London he moved permanently to Montenegro in 2002 and started a new chapter in his life working mainly as an architect and project manager for English and Irish investors. Recently, Robin qualified as a LEED Green Associate and advises on certifying buildings.
Peter Ivanov is Manager, Entrepreneur and Virtual teams Expert with over 20 years of international experience.
Born in Bulgaria he graduated Mathematics and joined a multinational company as Data Analyst. He quickly became IT Manager for Bulgaria and gradually worked his way up to IT Services Manager for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Peter recognized the growing importance of the teams in multiple locations and developed an innovative method for leading Virtual teams.
In 2007 the Team led by Peter won the “Best of the Best” award for outstanding Project management in establishing global Shared services.
In 2012 his Team won the “Global IT Connect Award” for excellent Engagement in a global cross-functional environment.
In 2013 Peter founded “Virtual Power Teams” and started new career as Keynote speaker and Executive coach on New Leadership.
Peter is a passionate athlete and Bulgarian Senior Champion in Javelin and Discus. He actively supports young Talents in the fields of mathematics and sports.
In his dynamic keynote speeches and master classes, held in English, German, Bulgarian and Russian, Peter uses the experience he has gained as Manager, Athlete, Entrepreneur and, yes, the father of five little girls, to show you how to build your Virtual Power Team.
As an expert in New Leadership Peter supports managers to retain the gravity of their Team despite the geographical distance, age and cultural differences, and deliver Top business performance!
Why should you listen to the Plant World?
Once upon a time, all food was organic and nature was an integral part of our lives. But somewhere along the way, we lost our ability to communicate with trees and plants. Deforestation, species evolution, pollution and the insatiable human hunger for more land create large chasms between “our” world and “theirs”, bringing about a separation where once there was none. So how do we reconnect? And why should we?
What would happen if you were to give a plant the ability to interact with us in a way we could understand? This is what a team of researchers set out to discover in the 1970s. Experimenting with plants that open doors and giving them driver’s licenses, 40 years of exploration into plant perception lead them to develop a device that enables plants and trees to play music! Interacting with a variety of stimuli, artists and observers in diverse environments, plants learn how to create melody and harmony using a musical instrument created for the plant world called “Music of the Plants”.
In this sonic and interactive talk, Tigrilla Gardenia will take you through the scientific and empirical research around the social, spiritual and physical healing abilities of plant music and give you a glimpse into the audible world of plant musicians. Deepen your relationship with trees and plants and learn how co-creation with the plant world can radically change your life… and maybe even save the planet!
The Global Tree Network: Resetting the Matrix Between Humans and Trees
The Global Tree Network (http://tigrillagardenia.com) was born to launch a global campaign of awareness and celebration of the relationship between humans and trees. At the core of this initiative is a specific technique devised in Damanhur, and people from all over the world are invited to participate, adding their unique artistic, cultural, and spiritual approaches.
During the last few decades, more old growth forest has been ravaged than throughout the thousands of years of human presence dating back to the Paleolithic period. Indeed, in the past 50 years, 50% of all the trees on the planet have been cut down. As Damanhur’s founder Falco puts it, “It was not the beavers.” Since we humans are the ones culpable for this, we must take the lead in proactively enabling trees to regain their health and equilibrium in the same manner in which people everywhere are working with specific species of animals and birds to re-create and protect their natural habitats.
Thanks to human action and specifically-prepared Selfic objects that function as mediators between human energies and those of the plant world, this technique creates a coherent field among the trees, re-establishing their ability to connect fully to one another and to other species in common networks. In this way, through their sensitivity and specific intelligence, trees create what Falco describes as “the largest and most powerful living computer” on earth, such that the trees’ intelligence is able to elaborate data relating to our planet and provide an effective relationship with the rest of our living ecology. Come learn how to “Orient Trees” and become an active part of the reconnection between human beings and the plant world.
Tigrilla Gardenia, plant researcher and Damanhurian citizen, presents the mysticism and solidarity of this growing ecosystem. Community is not limited to living together—it can be your circle of friends or work colleagues—and if we are going to evolve and heal our planet, we need to learn how to work together on a common goal.
Melusine Reimers studied Philosophy and Psychology in Bonn and holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Sociology as well as Theater, Film and Media sciences. She’s interested in doing phi-losophical research about society and contemporary political topics, therefore she’s writing her PhD thesis about social demarcation and the witnesses of inhuman constellations of power. The research includes the reflection of new forms of international collaboration such as global governance and civic participation. Melusine Reimers is philosopher, TEDx speaker and entrepreneur.
For her, being a philosopher means having a social responsibility to customize philosophical theory for everyone to bring it into action.
In 2013 Melusine founded aeWorldwide, an organization that helps asylum-seeking academics to integrate into an academic environment in Germany. Its main focus is to change the image of refugees in society and media, opening minds and thus finding a way to a long-term integration of refugees.
Since 2016 Melusine joined the founding team of ANJA GmbH & Co. KG. She is responsible for Public Affairs and Relations. The Startup aims to concern a change of thinking in food and beverage industry towards sustainability and responsibility. Therefore the team come up with a green fabric, where the products of ANJA will be produced without any carbon emission, without wasting water and embedded in a completely cradle-to-cradle process.
In 2017 she founded the company READYMADE focussing on new ways of furniture usage.
Sustainable furniture is still expensive and inflexible. By sharing innovative furniture READYMADE makes sustainability generally accessible on the furniture market. The company stands for minimalism, collaboration and global motion.
Climate speaker & activist, Promethean, business speaker, entrepreneur, sustainable futurist, agriculturist, hydro/aeroponist, teacher, and ecopreneur by profession. Evangelist for climate solutions, sustainability, and the Adaptive Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (ALOHAS). Marc loves family, diversity, culture, animals, playing polo, reading, playing chess, and living ALOHAS. He has the ability to see the unseen bigger picture - “The Overview Effect”. He is optimistic seeing the world not only as it is but as it could be and he knows the power of Exponential Growth and Quantum Leaps.
Marc speaks all over the world on Resilient Sustainable Business with a push to bring the Agriculture, Food, and Beverage Industry out of the Industrial Age. He deals in facts, physics, laws of nature, and exponential growth, breaking down the real numbers needed to achieve globally, in order to reduce the catastrophic effects of Climate Change we will experience. He is certain we need to transition to a new model or Epoch the Sustainocene. All his talks are unique and specific to the event and culture of attendees, with real world ways to apply the UN Sustainable Goals into their life and businesses. He speaks on Systems Thinking, Dynamic Modeling, Overview Effect, Anthropocene, Entrepreneurship, and Business taking over the role of transitioning to a resilient sustainable future.
He is very optimistic and believes now is the time for grand awakening, addressing global challenges, globalization, decolonization, and global citizenry. He loves Humanity and wants to reach Billions with global solutions now. He is thankful to be part of something greater than himself. It provides him an opening among an ever growing Collective Consciousness to Change the World for a Sustainable and Resilient Future. The ability to hear and follow the desires of his heart.
Co-Founder of ANJA GmbH & Co. KG - Adaptive Nutrition Joint Achievements, Climate Reality Project Speaker (Al Gore), Professor, Green Brand Academy, and founding member of Wertemanufaktur e.V.
Favorite Quote: A (Hu)man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a (Hu)man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distil it. ~ Cyrano de Bergerac
He is also a serial entrepreneur and has owned 12 companies and been involved as a partner in 6 International family businesses. He comes from 5 generations of German organic farmers and 3 generations of European Hydroponic gardeners nursery owners. He is an International expert in the Agriculture, Food and Beverage Industry. Marc is an International Climate Speaker trained by Al Gore, TEDx speaker, Kinnernet Speaker, Green Brand Educator, and a Industry Innovation Expert. Marc is a Systems Thinker and Dynamic Systems Modeler who understands the Exponential Function, Science, and Maths. He is a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation - Circular Economy, Blue Economy, World Economic Forum, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and a Cradle to Cradle Developer. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate, and has completed degrees at the following institutions; Bucerius Law School - LLM International Law and MLB, Business Administration, Computer Science and Economics, Heidelberg University, University of Utah, and University of Phoenix. As co-founder and CEO of ANJA GmbH & Co. KG he is a Blue Economy Developer making sure our future is resilient and sustainable within the Agriculture, Food and Beverage Industry.
There is no person who cares about the environment in Montenegro, that hasn’t heard of prof. Dragan Hajduković, PhD.
Hajduković is the initiator and the director of the Institute of Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology in Cetinje, Montenegro, and the director of “Foundation for an Ecological State”. He was the initiator of the idea of Montenegro as an ecological state, which was envisioned as a worldwide example of a new organization of human society.
Professor Hajduković has written over forty scientific papers related to the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. He worked as a scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland for ten years. His most renowned hypothesis, that has been featured on Discovery Channel, BBC, and other relevant media, is that quantum vacuum fluctuations are virtual gravitational dipoles.
Currently, he is working on the initiative „Adriatic Sea Without Army“, which is fighting for granting the status of “a sea without any military presence” to the Adriatic Sea.
Prof. Hajduković is our Key note speaker on the evening of the 7th June at the Luštica Bay Development complex near Tivat.
Deborah Rozman, Ph.D. is President and CEO of HeartMath Inc. She is a behavioral psychologist and helped develop HeartMath’s workshop trainer, health professional and coach/mentor certification programs to facilitate creating a more resilient, coherent and heart based world at home, at work, with clients and patients. The training and certification programs teach scientifically validated techniques for developing emotional self-regulation skills and internal energy management for improved health and wellbeing, building personal resilience and coherence, and enhancing creativity and innovation. HeartMath has also developed the award winning emWave® and Inner Balance™ HRV coherence feedback technology to help individuals and teams achieve heart-brain synchronization for team building and leadership training, improving decision-making and performance . See http://www.heartmath.com.
Deborah co-authored with HeartMath founder Doc Childre the Transforming book series, published by New Harbinger. The series includes four titles, including Transforming Stress, Transforming Anger, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. She also co-authored Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart.
Deborah is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath system, giving media interviews and keynote addresses throughout the world on how heart coherence can accelerate personal growth and expand consciousness. She has appeared in documentary films, numerous telesummits, and hosted webinars with Dr. Daniel Amen, author of Change your Brain, Change your Life who wrote forward to HeartMath’s Brain Fitness Program, and with trauma specialist Dr. Bessel van der Kelk on healing trauma with heart rate variability training. She is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and is on the Advisory Board of the Transformative Technology Lab. She enjoys hiking in the redwood forest where she lives, tending her rose garden of 40 vintage roses, and exploring fun new apps.
Optimist - Humanist - Dad - Chef - Speaker - Author - Social Entrepreneur
Early in his career Leon became a chef, almost by accident. He worked in top restaurants in the Netherlands, France and England and later on he opened his own highly acclaimed fine dining restaurant. In 2001 he moved to London to start a fine food wholesale business supplying the top restaurants in the UK, importing from all over the world.
A profound inner experience in 2007 radically changed the course of his life resulting in giving up his business. He devoted a lot of time to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation inside himself. It was time for change.
Leon became a social entrepreneur and started a charity to raise funds to feed children in developing countries. He helps people and businesses tap into their own greatness, empowering them to live a fully authentic life. During this time he has written three books.
In 2015 Leon went to Calais to cook for a few hundred refugees and ended up starting Calais Kitchens to supply foods to the thousands of refugees living in Northern France resulting in distributing food to more than 9000 people every week. All these experiences have resulted in his latest project: Compassion.
An accumulation of everything he has done in his life. Compassion will be a community restaurant where we focus on what we have in common not our differences. Sharing a meal has the power to create greater understanding and to change our perceptions. Compassion will be a community where we create a more beautiful world through the power of sharing a meal.
Alina joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in April 2013. She is responsible for the engagement with policy and decision makers worldwide, and research on international climate change policy.
She joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change from KPMG, where she was Global Director for Climate Change and Carbon. She has fourteen years of experience in climate policy and international development.
Prior to KPMG, Alina has worked for a carbon-asset manager, First Climate, in Zurich, focusing on policies related to carbon markets. Before that, as a Programme Officer at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change based in Bonn, she supported international negotiations on post-2012 climate change regime.
Her professional experience also includes work for the Environmental Defence Fund in Washington, DC, focusing on climate policy in economies in transition; for Metroeconomica Ltd on resource abundance and economic growth, and for the Bureau of Economic Analysis, on climate policy in Russia.
Alina has extensive experience in providing advisory and capacity building services to governments, UN organisations and private sector, and in facilitating interministerial and multi-stakeholder dialogues on climate change.
Alina holds a BSc in Geography from Moscow State University, and an MSc and a PhD in Economics and International Development from the University of Bath, focused on factors of effectiveness of international climate change regime.
Research interests
Robin is 70 and still full of energy with a strong desire for innovation and exploring ideas with a constant enquiring mind. He brings to any project or undertaking his experience in architecture and design for natural structures. Now living and working in Montenegro he specialises in renovation and construction of stone buildings for investors with a desire to follow the spiritual impact of building in a traditional way. Robin uses the strong and ancient form of divine proportions (golden proportions) to achieve not only the fusion of man and materials in buildings but the little recognised spiritual impact of peace of mind as occupiers.
Robin is one of the founder directors of the Montenegro Green Building Council and uses his position to encourage businesses connected with the construction industry to think of ways to rationalise energy used by the sector. On a personal level he advises on simple ways individuals can contribute by greening their own homes.
Robin left school and spent 6 years in the British Royal Navy after which he set up a small construction company based in London specialising in renovation and conversion of old houses into flats. This led to the company buying and developing their own properties thus growing the firm into a major property developer company. The company suffered during the 1990’s UK property collapse and went out of business. Robin then took the opportunity to study at Reading University for a diploma in Building Surveying. Qualifying after 4 years he set up his own professional building surveying practice in London mainly specialising in design and supervision of renovation of historic buildings; working with English Heritage and Society of Preservation of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
Robin visited Montenegro in 2000 after the Balkan conflict ended and fell in love with the country and decided to make it his home. After taking 2 years to close his Surveying practise in London he moved permanently to Montenegro in 2002 and started a new chapter in his life working mainly as an architect and project manager for English and Irish investors. Recently, Robin qualified as a LEED Green Associate and advises on certifying buildings.
Victoria is currently the Head of Physics and the Assistant Head of Science at Hasmonean High School, an outstanding school ranked the top non-selective comprehensive school in the country with consistently high standards in GCSE, AS and A Level examinations. Her experience in private, state and IB schools has enabled her to inspire young people to integrate learned science concepts into their everyday life and expand their perception of the world. In order to further motivate students and help them better understand the practical nature of physics, Victoria has been organising different projects, such as exploring renewable energy and taking scientific trips, one of which was the exciting visit to CERN. She recently completed her Masters in Environmental Engineering and is passionate about inspiring students to aim high, improve constantly and become lifelong learners.
Master Lau was born in China and from a young age educated by Buddhist monks. This instilled in him the belief that the minds that co-ordinate the activities of violence can co-ordinate the activities of co-operation. Everyone has an equal right to eliminate suffering and seeking for happiness.
To understand this potential he trained in martial arts and qigong. The discipline training became an invaluable tool to teach him how he could overcome his fear of violence and allow himself to perform everyday life in a more spontaneous and constructive way. His life has been dedicated to cultivating mind, body and spirit to the highest degree.
In keeping with the Warrior tradition Master Lau has focused his life as much on being a healer as being a martial artist. He is a sincere practitioner of qigong, Chinese herbal medicine and Chinese astrology, believing that physical, emotional and spiritual health are essential for self-development and inner awareness. He believes everyone has the potential to improve and change because each new day represents a new life. “Every hour of our time is a gift.”
He opened Simon Lau Centre in London in 1990 and Simon Lau Centre Sweden in 1995.
He is credited with pioneering interfaith participation at the climate change negotiations with the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change (InterfaithDeclaration.org), now known as the United Planet Faith & Science Initiative (UPFSI.org).
He lives in the Sussex countryside with his wife and 4 children and enjoys West German ceramics, a theremin, things megalithic and anthropologic, cycling fast and foraging slow.
Prince Nikola II Petrović Njegoš Heads the Foundation Petrović Njegoš which is based in Montenegro, and which undertakes various activities related to solidarity, eco-development and cultural promotion of Montenegro and its heritage.
Born in France in St. Nicolas du Pelem, a small town on the West Atlantic coast, the Prince became an active environmentalist and has been engaged in various organisations for the protection of sites in Brittany. His mother was the president of the Association for the Environmental Protection of Brittany.
As an accomplished architect (he completed his studies in Paris where he became a member of the Société Française des Architects), the Prince has worked on a wide range of projects related to auto-construction, urban environment, urban planning, construction of industrial and agricultural buildings, and renovation of administrative and office buildings.
In 1991, Prince Nicolas II Petrović Njegoš founded the Biennial of Contemporary Art, held in Cetinje, Montenegro.
At the start of the Yugoslav conflict, with an appeal to soldiers to leave the conflict immediately after the first bombing of Dubrovnik, he founded the Association of CHOICE (for the legal defence of victims of ethnic discrimination in the former Yugoslavia), and organised a network support of human rights defenders in the former Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Zagreb, Pristina, Sarajevo, Novi Pazar).
In partnership with the CCFD Terre Solidaire, the Catholic committee for development and against hunger, the Association launched the “SOS victim” for legal aid.
With support from the European Union, the Association financed around 80 processes and several observation missions in various locations in the former Yugoslavia led by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Also, the prince founded the SEM (Solidarity Europe Montenegro) Association supporting campaigns for humanitarian aid in Montenegro.
Between 2000 and 2003, appointed by Montenegro, he led the mission for developing and maintaining cultural cooperation with France.
With the National school of fine arts in Paris (ENSBA ), between 2002 and 2006, he organized summer architectural workshops in the village of Gornja Lastva, Montenegro.
Between 2005 and 2011 he was the President of “Courrier des Balkans “, a French-portal of print media in the Balkans.
Since 2009 he has been the President of the association Rive Gauche Musique (www.rivegauchemusique.fr), which promotes the season of chamber music in Paris.
In 2012 the prince was appointed the President of the Foundation Petrović Njegoš, which was established by law passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro in July 2011. The Foundation’s activities cover three main areas: solidarity, eco-development and the cultural promotion of Montenegro and its heritage.
Ms. Fiona McCluney (United Kingdom) has been appointed as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Montenegro in June 2015.
Prior to this appointment, Fiona worked with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) as Chief Technical Adviser and Head of their Country Office in Palestine (2012-2015), and in Iraq (2011-2012). From 2008-2011 she served with UN-Habitat in Iraq as Head of Urban Governance, Land and Housing. Before joining UN-Habitat, Fiona was a Senior Policy Consultant with GHK International Consulting Ltd., an employee-owned economics and development consultancy in the UK and worked as a Planning and Policy Officer in various UK local government positions. Fiona has over twenty-five years of experience working as an Urban Planner in the public and private sectors. She was selected as a trainee under the UK Government Associate Professional Officers Scheme, and from 1987 to 2005 she lived and worked in Anguilla, St. Helena, Pakistan, China, Hong Kong and India.
Fiona holds a B.A. (Hons) from Oxford Brookes University, England and an M.Phil. in Urban Design and Regional Planning from Edinburgh University, Scotland.
His current interests are in the role of climate scientists in society and the communication of climate science. He is Chair of the UCL Commission on Communicating Climate Science.
Prof Rapley was awarded the 2008 Edinburgh Science Medal for having made ‘a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity.
Anna supports entrepreneurs, executives and organisations to navigate complex change, building resilience into their strategies. A former journalist and editor of the sustainable solutions magazine Green Futures, she has been monitoring emerging innovations for over 10 years. Today, she oversees the Futures Centre, an online hub tracking change, powered by the sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future. She is also the author of two books:
The Innovation-Friendly Organization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), alongside other papers and book chapters. She has a 1st class degree in English and French from The Queen’s College, Oxford, and a Masters in Gender and Development from the School of Oriental & African Studies.
Fascinated by nature since her earliest memories, Tigrilla Gardenia turned that passion into her vocation. Her journey started in a polyethnic childhood, she studied music and electrical engineering, and entered into the corporate world via RealNetworks and Microsoft, co-owner of a circus, producer of alternative dance events, and a stint touring with the ever-inventive Cirque du Soleil. As a keynote speaker, Interspecies Researcher and Ambassador for Damanhur, Federation of Communities, she takes her expertise in the plant world, human dynamics, and sound and advocates for a greater nature connection via plant music and communication.
With her roots firmly planted in the arts, digital media, and avant-garde, she arrived in Damanhur—one of the largest spiritual eco-communities in the world—on a mission to discover what we can learn from the plant world and how they perceive. She believes a world co-created by humans and plants is fundamental for healthy, happy, and sustainable living, and advocates for the integration of biomimicry and bio-utilization to create urban areas with #natureinthecity.
Alia is Head of the HEC Global Learning Centre in London and is among the core teaching staff at the British Museum. Her background as a social anthropologist and an artist-educator is in using theatre and performance tools to engage schools and communities in critical conversation around global issues, leading to activism through cultural production. Alia is a committed environmentalist and is a Level 2 accredited Philosophy for Children practitioner.
Her discoveries led her to share her insights in a number of short films as well as the feature documentary ‘Blood of the Amazon’. Producing a film was not enough, driven to find ways to help deal with the contamination left from the oil industry she co-founded The Amazon Mycorenewal Project, bringing together a group of scientists to research mycoremediation (the use of fungi to clean up contaminated sites).
Looking for an immediate solution to help the people she started to build rainwater systems for families drinking contaminated water. Over the years Nicola has built numerous families water systems. She has also initiated the clean up of villages using eco-bricks (empty plastic bottles filled with rubbish).
Nicola built the first ecological restaurant in the Amazon (built from 3,200 eco-bricks) and the first place to serve local coffee. Working with the local councils she has provided them with environmental consultancy and worked to change the entire way of looking at waste.
Nicolas’ new focus is to work with big business to show them exciting ways to help clean up the planet on a large scale and how to change business from within, looking from a totally different angle.
Chris is Co-Founder, Operations Director and Sustainability lead of Shambala Festival, spending 17 years pioneering green initiatives that tackle food sourcing, plastics, energy, travel and wider environmental impacts.
Chris is a Company Director and Senior Environmental Consultant at Kambe Events, co-founder and chair of Powerful Thinking - the UK’s think-do tank on sustainable energy, and co-founder and CEO of the Energy Revolution charity.
Regular speaker, conference program collaborator, occasional lecturer and campaigner, Chris has combined an extensive event management history, including managing events up to 80,000 capcity, with a passionate commitment and unparalleled experience of delivering sustainable initiatives at events. Chris has worked with individual clients, event agencies, as part of European projects, with local authorities and at industry scale.
Chris is also the Associate for Festivals and Events with Julie’s Bicycle.
His expertise sits in a fold over of business, design, psychology and technology.
Having formally coached User Centered Design at various institutions, his focus now is on a mission to coach people Design Thinking, enabling them to create Designed Companies, which in turn will create a better world for all of us.
Jason is also an active public speaker, design jam participant, startup advisor, maker and a family man.
Jason holds a Degree in Computer Science from Goldsmiths College and Master’s Degree in Business Management from Royal Holloway.
His life so far has orbited around two main tracks:
First he has been a creative entrepreneur of some kind most of his adult life. He has been a professional photographer, music video, documentary and film director, producer of advertisements, run PR and marketing for large companies (amongst others BBC worldwide) in Africa, been a wine grape farmer, restaurateur, script writer and property developer. Anthony collect careers and experiences.
All along the way he has remained self employed; started several businesses and companies, some of which didn’t do very well and some of which did.
His second track has been a keen interest (with personal family experience) in how human beings might get themselves out of some of the scrapes and real life threatening health and psychological challenges they get into. To this end he’s been involved for over 35 years in working to help people recover from a variety of behaviour related problems like addiction, mental health, depression.
He has created training programmes for coaches (and organisations) so they can work to help people rebuild their lives or, better still, not have such difficult breakdowns in the first place. He has also created a new coaching model based on human meaning (Meaning Centred Coaching MCC) which is at the heart of the programmes.
This work has taken him to many different parts of the planet from Vietnam to the US to Africa and Europe.
A few years ago Anthony realised that the issue of mental health, ecological awareness and the experience of childhood were all interlinked. And we live in incredibly volatile and fast changing times.
His mind is now on the future, not only for his children, as he says, but for all of us, and he adds: “Climate change is an overriding issue; one that trumps all others and offers us some of the greatest challenges of modern times and with it’s promise of a worldwide new energy economy it contains the potential for a new enlightened order and sustainable prosperity.
To get there we need to embrace change and disruption and most important of all find ways to free our children from the educational relic that is the current educational system.
With our own children we have found a way of supporting children to grow and thrive and be happier than many children are able to be. We based this on what most people consider the opposites of what we are told we ought to do with children. We wrote a book for parents and educators to share our journey and ideas, JUMP, FALL, FLY.”
February 2002 starting business with Italian partner and opening Italian restaurant La Dolce Vita in Ashford in Kent
April 2006 taking over (leasing) Hotel with restaurant and 16 bedrooms in Ashford.
March 2013 restoring and converting an old barn, II grade listed property, dealing with change of use and setting up new business Plumpton House B&B in small Hamlet of Hinxhill, Ashford, Kent.
In April 2017 started investing in Montenegro in partnership with a local guy who grows organic fruit. The project is quite significant to the area. The factory will produce organic juices, jams and baby food along with other organic products. The concept is to partner up with local people whose ambition is to cultivate organic production and integrating them into the business creating a value chain. The business will work on alleviating environmental impact, as it has been build with all approved plans and permissions for organic production.
In December 2017 successfully completed the University of Cambridge Business Sustainability Management online program at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) earning certificate from the University of Cambridge as well as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certificate.
Driven by new knowledge, at present under negotiation for opening sustainable Italian restaurant and promote Nature in newly build Marina resort in Lustica Bay.
Since founding DesignThinkers Group in UK, James has become an innovation trainer, coach and facilitator, with clients from new start-ups to global Fortune 100 companies, and increasingly at Government level to assist humanitarian projects across the world. He is a visiting professor at leading design schools and a regular keynote speaker on the subject of innovation via design, design thinking, and service design. James industry background and role in DesignThinkers Group has positioned him as an expert who understands global shifts in customer needs, and
how to use design thinking to respond.
In the Autumn of 2017 she launched a climate education collaboration, where she weaves together carbon cycle, energy, fast fashion and climate action. This unique sustainable solutions for schools programme is in collaboration with local and national businesses and charities.
Carrie will talk about the power of partnership in getting the message to schools and beyond.
Nick is also a wine and blockchain journalist linking both topics to impacts from climate change.
After 2002, in his neo/post/conceptual accomplished works, that are based mainly on books and brochures, but also on different actions in nature, installations and performances followed by documented photographs and video recordings, testing the frame of art. He is also an author of several books (narration and body), peculiarly exhibited independently but also as part of a sculptural entirety of the work. His books are: The Unwritten book to the mediator (2002), Book above the book covers: My Anthology – Macedonian art and critique: 1954-2004 (2004); Project Preface – How could I write a critique as good as that by the art critics (2005, with translation into English); I, Ptolemy MKD & N.B. Nothingness (2009, with translation into English) and written art (Tokmu Project, 2011, Short stories).
Since the beginning of his career, Pavleski is a part in several important selections of ex-Yugoslavia. He participates at the Sculpture exhibition in Panchevo (1991) where he receives his first award as equal. At the biennial for small sculpture in Murska Sobota (1987) and the Youth Biennial in Rieka (1991) he receives the award for sculpture. He is also a part of the exhibition Yugoslavian Documenta in Sarajevo (1897, 1989) and the Geometrish exhibition (1990 selection) etc. In 1996, in Gornji Milanovac at the fourth International biennial in miniature art, he receives the special award by the jury, he also participates at the International biennial in Murska Sobota (1995) and in Cetinje (1997). He is represented in many exhibits of Macedonian art abroad and in other curators projects. He has been three times awarded at the Youth Biennial in Skopje in 1991, with Grand Prix; and at the exhibits at DLUM with the awards for sculpture “Nereshki Majstori” and “Jordan Grabul”.
He has independent exhibits in Belgrade in 1992, Brussels in 1995, New York in 1997, 2007, 2008, and in 2017, Paris in 2006, Alexandria in 2009 and in Skopje in 1987, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2006,2009 and 2012, as well as other group exhibits both in Macedonia and abroad. Pavleski is one of the founders of the Art activity in nature – “Artistically through the Phenomenal” (AtP, 2004) and until today he is devoted to such idea and practice. Since 2013,Pavleski, Vesna Dunimagloska and Gjorgji Krsteski, through the modified concept of the project, as well as the increased dynamics of the events, transform the “BY THE WAY” into an Association with limited responsibility.
Out of the daily need Chibac invented and patented together with J. Hesselbarth the world first VR-Drone Spherie.
Chibac won for his projects several international media awards.
SpiceVR & Spherie
SpiceVR is an award-winning VR media agency and production.
The clients reach from the automotive industry to the major music labels and international tv stations.
The Spice-Spin-Off Spherie is the world first VR-Drone. Patented and co-founded from N. Chibac and J. Hesselbarth and supported by the IFB.
The cutting-edge technology driven company merges VR and drone expertise.
SpiceVR and Spherie will open up together with VR Nerds and NoysVR the VRHQ, the next leading VR headquarter in Germany.
The Forest Theatre workshops is a playful exploration of Self, the Other and the World through interactions in and with Nature. Its aim is to help bring people closer to the awareness that we are part of the whole, that we are all interconnected among ourselves and to the whole world, and that it’s important for us to develop a sense of oneness, awe for nature, and embracing the world’s diversity with empathy and kindness. Each workshop is different, depending on the setting and the group, and each can have some of the following sample activities: a ‘nature walk’, a journey with their senses, experiencing a more in-depth reality of the surroundings; humming with the wind; tiptoe dance with the ants; blindfolded tree hugs; name echo song; finding the broken rainbow; quest for opposites; etc. The workshop ends with making a small ceremony of Gratitude.
Your yogic experience will be provided by Chelsey from Holistic Health Company, InnerSense Guru.
Chelsey has been teaching Yoga for three years now, mainly in Leeds Yorkshire UK, after completion of her multi-style yoga course Trimurti Yoga School in the North of India. Prior to her Yoga teacher training Chelsey graduated from Leeds University with her Philosophy and Politics degree. Both Chelsey’s knowledge from her degree and personal experience with Yoga fuse together underpinning why Chelsey finds it so important and such a joy to share Yoga with others.
Chelsey will be offering InnerSense’s two main styles of Yoga; Sivananda Yoga and InnerFlow Yoga. Chelsey’s classes will be accessible to all and will break down challenging traditional sequences/postures into smaller parts with engaging class intentions, mantra music and adjustments specifically for emotional well-being as well as working with InnerSense’s overall intention for working at Green Culture 7; reconnecting with nature through connecting to our own true nature. Full Body Harmonising Tibetan Massage and Tibetan Power Back Massage will also be available to purchase separately at Green Culture 7.
More info about the two styles of yoga available here: www.innersense.guru/yoga. Please follow @innersenseg on Instagram and find InnerSense Guru on Facebook. Enquiries: chels@innersense.guru
Dinesh is our guest yoga teacher.
He was born India and he has been athletic throughout school and college; he has participated and won many medals at the State and National level in various sports but mostly long distance running. He has gone on to achieved a Masters in Yoga & Naturopathy, Bachelors in Physical Education, Masters in Arts (Subject – Hindi) and a Diploma in Yoga.
Dinesh began his career as a Yoga Instructor with the top spas in the Himalayas and has been in wellness industry for more than a decade. He has worked with the highest ranking Resorts and Spa’s in Asia with Oberoi, and Six Senses in top management position. With his yoga he has travelled through exotic places such as South Korea, Singapore, Dubai, but also Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Montenegro as a wellness expert before joining Eastern Vibration as a Business Development Manager. During his tenure he has mastered Watsu Therapy, Sound and Vibration Therapy, Eastern and Western massage techniques etc which will be available at the Green Culture 7.
Roy started DJ’ing when he was 12 yrs old and won the Black Tie Ball Co under 18 DJ comp when he was 14. His prize was to be resident at all their events until he was 18. So he started playing at Camden Palace (Now Koko), Middlesex & Herts Country Club and various other clubs around London. At 17 he became the in house DJ for the Q Bar (New Burlington St), one year later he became resident on Friday and Saturday for The Emporium (Tantra - Studio Val Bonne) and every Thursday @ The Mayfair Club (Now Nobu). He worked at both clubs until 2002 - 2003 when they both closed down. During his time at the Mayfair Club, Roy got the chance to DJ for Puff Daddy, Lennox Lewis, Busta Rhymes, Eve and Bruce Willis to name a few. He was also sent out to St Tropez to DJ at the Mayfair Club party at V.I.P. Whilst there he did a few sets at La Voile Rouge one of the best beach clubs in the world. Roy has also played in a few of the bars around the port… After his two homes closed down Roy moved to the Embassy Club for 7 Months then moved to Tantra (Same owner as Emporium, same location, different look) and started working every Thursday and Saturday there. He was also working every Wednesday and Friday at Attica. During his time at Attica he DJ’ed at the Eminem Anger Management Tour Party (he didn’t turn up, he was too busy shopping in Paris) 50 Cent and D12 came to party. Roy eventually managed to get a chance to DJ for Eminem at the D12 Devils Night Album release party at No5 Cavendish SQ. In 2009 Roy did the opening party for the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA and became musical director @ Private members club Automat in Mayfair, London. 2010 saw Roy ending up on the wedding scene and doing a number of high profile wedding, from the CEO of Google to Saudi billionaires, being flown all over the world from Florence to Santorini to the Dominican Republic and showing that wedding DJ’s can be cool and fun. Whilst back in London he was taking over Shoreditch with resident nights at both Hoxton Pony & McQueens. 2013 saw Roy and a group of friends start a new Deep Tech House night at The Bell’s of Shoreditch called Dip Dab. After one year of running the event the team got invited to start holding the night at the world famous Ministry of Sound in Elephant & Castle. 2015 also saw Roy open the “Streets of Spain festival” in Southbank for Campo Viejo wine in May. 2016 saw Roy became in house DJ for Cipriani’s private members club Socialista as well as launching a new cabaret club Bunga Bunga in Covent Garden.
Francesca is currently working as a freelance engineer in projects centred around climate awareness, community development and responsible investments in agriculture and commodities. She is also the founder of WorldClimaps.com, an online platform that shows on a map the consequences of climate change and which climate actions are being taken around the globe.
In this brief presentation I intend to share fundamental ideas and reflections from my readings from Laudato Si, ecopsychology as well as my experience in recent years with a vegan diet. I’ve realized that without a wide transformation of the collective psyche towards a deeper reconnection with our souls and with nature, no set of environmental rules and economic goals signed on the Paris Agreement will succeed. And the first step to this renovation starts with what we eat!
‘Almonds and Avocados’ looks at the challenges faced by some of our favourite foods in a changing climate, and explores options to look beyond our food choices as victims of change, and instead as part of the solution.
The Zero Carbon Serbia 2050 scenario is a landmark study on the possibility to transform Serbian fossil fuel based energy sector in order to provide clean and renewable energy to industry and households. The study shows that Serbia can produce more energy than demanded with costs that are comparable to the current coal-related increased public health costs. The transition to renewables will provide us an abundant energy and make us much healthier.
So far, Djordje has delivered dozens of presentations on climate change, technology and renewables on various local, national and international events.
Djordje is a promoter of renewables, especially solar. His dream is to build solar powerplant in Serbia that will not depend on state subventions, but to sell clean energy under standard market conditions.
About NVO HC Restart
NVO Holistic Center RESTART was created in order to give a modern-day man the ability to improve the quality of his life, to relax, get rid of stress, find the purpose of his being, express his creativity, live up to his full potential and achieve harmony inside himself as well as in his environment.
We give instructions on how to heal yourself through different techniques on all 4 levels of being: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
In our center, we use techniques that will give a man the best effects in mitigation of difficulties caused by stress and bad lifestyle as well as the elimination of toxins from the organism, achieving relaxation and better spirit until one is completely healed.
We practice:
Hata Yoga
Tantra Yoga
Thai Chi
Qigong
Oriental dance
Pilates
5 Tibetans
All of these exercises are held in small groups of 10 beginners in an enjoyable ambient with supportive energy.
We offer different treatments with top experts from our region and abroad:
Reiki
Reflex Therapy
Magnotherapy
Kvantum Harmonisation
Acupuncture
Acupressure
Relaxational and energy massages
BARSA and MTVSS
Nonhipnotic regression therapy
We have enabled large number of appointments (AM, PM, as well as individual or in groups).
During all of these activities, we work on a holistic approach to a person which is the main goal of this center.
We also do educations of all people that wish to grow and work on themselves.
Within this center, we also organize workshops and consultations for:
Fractal drawing
Reiki beginners, practitioners and teachers
astrology
Family constellations
Healthy cooking
Homeopathy and therapy with Bahs drops
Reflexotherapy
Kvant Harmonisation
Chigong
Nutritionism
Within our group we also give the ability to consult with doctors of integrative medicine, homeopathy, practitioners of ”Bahs drops”, nutritionists, doctors of kvant medicine and experts in nutrition according to blood types and many more.
We organize education in different areas, seminars, and lectures.
We give both suggestions and directions to our clients on which techniques to try according to his needs.
We are open to all your questions and collaborations.
Contact us and start your personal transformation. We are here to help you on your path.
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/nvorestart/
E-Mail: nvohcrestart@gmail.com
Passionate about education, Carolyn began her professional career as a primary school teacher and
went on to work as a tutor for children with special educational needs and assessor for a top tutoring
firm. In the eleven years since setting up Whale Bags Ltd. Carolyn has seen plastic pollution
increase exponentially; she believes education is the key to bring about positive change and she
hopes to inspire others to take action, through The Whale Company.
Carlos De Sousa
Carlos is a qualified P.E teacher who specialises in working with children with Special Educational
Needs (SEN). Born and bred in São Paulo, Brazil he has spent eleven years working in the UK. It
was in London, where Carlos first experienced paddle boarding and completed his first marathon on
the Thames, after only four sessions. Creative and resourceful, he loves building things from
recycled materials; after building his first paddle board out of plastic bottles in 2017, he came up
with the idea to complete the SUP marathon expedition - 12 marathons in 12 countries, which he and
Carolyn completed last year.
Since 2003 he has been working for the Regional Environmental Center – as Head of Communications and PR – both on the core communication activities and on awareness raising projects, including campaigns such as education for resilience, sustainable development, climate change, urban transport, and environmental security.
He earned his masters of business administration from Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has a Bachelor of Science concentration on Trade Management and on Advertising.
He is a member of the board of the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum (HBLF), and the European Branch Manager of the Al Gore founded The Climate Reality Project.
