Speaker
David Abram

Dr. David Abram – cultural ecologist and geophilosopher – is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Described as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by the journal Science, David's work engages the ecological depths of experience, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, language and wonder inform relationships between the human animal and the animate earth.

In his first book David coined the phrase "more-than-human world" in order to speak of nature as a realm that thoroughly includes humankind, yet also necessarily exceeds humankind; the phrase has now been taken up worldwide within the broad movement for ecological sanity. Currently a Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University, David usually makes his home in the foothills of the southern Rockies in the US.

Facilitator
Juliana Schneider

Juliana has been a close affiliate of Schumacher College, UK, for the past decade, having graduated with a masters in holistic science and worked as a facilitator alongside experts in different areas including Stephan Harding, David Abram, Vandana Shiva and Satish Kumar. In 2013, she founded an educational enterprise in Brazil experimenting with more participatory organisational methods. Beyond leading the organisation, she also taught and facilitated holistic thinking through numerous groups with highly diverse backgrounds. She is now a collaborator of educational initiatives in Brazil and around the world through mentoring, consulting and teaching, as well as conducting a PhD as a researcher with the Schumacher Society.