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For more than 20 years Ina Meyer-Stoll and Achim Ecker  have lived and worked at the intentional community of ZEGG (www.zegg.de). They lived many years in the forerunner community and have been deeply involved in the development of Forum and have trained and supervised groups at ZEGG and in Europe, South America and the USA. They are united by their deep care for people and for our planet.

From 2006 to 2008 they joined a profound spiritual training with Thomas Hübl to broaden their communication and training skills. They see themselves as constantly learning to be more authentic in their lives and in their teachings. Living in a community with a strong focus on love, partnership and friendship, gives them a special awareness in these issues. They have lived in a committed and polyamorous partnership for more than 14 years.

They are familiar with and use "Open Space" Technology, World Cafés, Integral Life Practice, Collective Intelligence, Deep Ecology and "The work that reconnects", "Non Violent Communication", Spiral Dynamics teachings, Appreciative Inquiry, Worldwork, Consensus Decision making, Dynamic governance, …

Ina Meyer-Stoll

Amazonien-88.JPGBorn in 1961, teacher, passionate peace and environmental activist from her youth. She is involved in the guest department, in giving community trainings, and in working at the community’s children’s house. Being, sharing and learning with and from people is her passion.

She was one of the founding members of the ecovillage ZEGG. For many years she was executive secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network of Europe, (www.gen-europe.org),
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Achim Ecker

STA60066.jpgBorn in 1959; trained social worker. In the 80s he was an intern at the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz and a training for trainers at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant protests.

At ZEGG he is the chief landscape designer with Permaculture knowledge and an eco-builder.
He is motivated by a deep caring, compassion and love for people and life. Achim always seeks new methods to learn and teach. For the last 15 years he has been teaching integral Forum and awareness training in German, English and Spanish.
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Michael Kenny has been an environmentalist and social justice activist since his youth, volunteering with numerous organizations. He is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Canadian-based grassroots environmental and social justice organization Regenesis http://www.theregenesisproject.com/. He was the New Democratic Party candidate for Don Valley West in the 2007 provincial election against future Premier Kathleen Wynne and PC leader John Tory.  He attends York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies in Toronto, where he is conducting research on autonomous spaces, activist centres and intentional communities.

Mira Luna is a long time social and environmental justice activist, community organizer and journalist, working to develop an alternative economy. She co-founded Bay Area Community Exchange, a regional open source timebank, the San Francisco Really Really Free Market and JASecon, and has served on the board of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and currently serves on the boards of the US Solidarity Economy Network and Data Commons Cooperative. She coordinated the Bay Area Participatory Budgeting Tour, the first Homestead Skillshare Festival in San Francisco, the Festival of Grassroots Economics in Oakland and two workshops for the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives.

 

JJ Noire is the producer of the 2-DVD workshop "This Way Out: A Guide To Starting A Worker Cooperative" (http://www.MightySmallFilms.com/This_Way_Out.html) She is a volunteer with NoBAWC and lives in a Limited Equity Housing Coop in Berkeley, CA.  For the past several years she has been videotaping conferences and presentations about worker and housing cooperatives and posting them online (http://www.YouTube.com/JJNoire)

Joss Winn is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Lincoln and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln.

Elizabeth Barrette writes and edits nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in diverse fields including speculative fiction, alternative spirituality, and community. She ran the Pagan magazine PanGaia for 8 years and writes regularly for the Llewellyn annuals. Visit her blog The Wordsmith’s Forge and coven website Greenhaven: A Pagan Tradition.

Bonnie Shulman, now in her 60s, is an elder hippie who came of age in the 60s.  She is a recovering mathematics professor, recently retired from Bates College in Lewiston, ME, and looking forward to life in the slow lane.  Her friends and family are skeptical about her slowing down, and she grudgingly admits they may be right.  She is eager to return to her passions of poetry, gardening, and yoga.