Foundation board

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Michael Plesse

Founder of the foundation

Philologist, political scientist and body psychotherapist (EABP). He is founder and foundation director of the Future Now Network Foundation (FNNF) and active internationally as an educator, consciousness researcher and initiator of networks and organizations. From 1990 – 2011 co-founder and partner of a training network (Orgoville International). With his wife Gabrielle St. Clair he developed the body-oriented and transpersonal method Orgodynamik®. For 20 years, development of an ecological, energy-autonomous settlement project in southern Portugal and, since 2004, a seminar center in the Kassel area. Since 2000 he has been teaching a method of essential consciousness work (Essencia®) that he developed. Co-founder of Transition Town Kassel (2011). He is engaged as a speaker at congresses and conferences at the intersection of civic initiatives and inner change methodologies, as well as in the field of transpersonal and socially engaged research.

www.michaelplesse.org
www.e-wake.eu

Günter Bucksteeg

He is the director of the Svadipa Institute for Yoga and Meditation in Velbert, Germany. He is also a yoga and meditation teacher and trainer, as well as an Essencia® teacher and Dragon Dreaming trainer.

www.svadipa.de

Gabrielle St. Clair

Dr. Phil., Pedagogy and Soc. ped. grad, Bodypsychotherapist (EABP), training in Biodynamic Psychology (Gerda Boyesen, London), Unitive Psychology (Jay Stattman, Holland), training in Zen and shamanic ritual work, Transpersonal Studies (Richard Moss), Quantum Psychology (Stephen Wolinsky), Consciousness teacher, seminar and training leader, founder of Orgodynamics® (together with Michael Plesse), dissertation and book publication on Orgodynamics®, establishment of the eco-retreat settlement project Vale de Agua, Portugal.

www.orgoville.de

Klaus Lorenz

He is a specialist attorney for tax law in his own law firm. After completing his training as a Diplom-Finanzwirt (FH), he worked for more than 4 years as a tax administrator at a large tax office in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, he has worked part-time as a tax consultant for large commercial enterprises and as a private lecturer on tax issues at the European Business School (ebs) in Oestrich -Winkel. He is trained in Orgodynamics® and Orgodynamic Bodywork.

www.steuerkanzleilorenz.de

Claudia Kingen
has been a specialist practice teacher for health, nursing and nutrition at the vocational school in Westerburg since 1983.
She is co-founder of the emergency call “Women against violence” in the Westerwald.
Since 1989, she has regularly participated in advanced training in body-oriented and transpersonal methods of orgodynamics. In connection with this consciousness-raising process, she completed various educations and trainings.
She is a yoga teacher, shiatsu therapist, relaxation instructor, health coach and Essencia teacher.

Employees

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Dennis Heydrich

Administration and coordination

He is a body psychotherapist (DGK/EABP), non-medical practitioner (psychotherapy) and owner of a practice for body-oriented psychotherapy and coaching in Hannover. He is a mindfulness and awareness coach as well as a Tai Chi & Qi Gong teacher and teaches courses and trainings focusing on mindfulness, resilience and self-empowerment. Furthermore, he accompanies and supports groups and initiatives of change as a Dragon Dreaming Facilitator and is involved in the eco-retreat settlement project Vale de Agua in the south of Portugal.

www.dennis-heydrich.de

Monika Paulig
Foundation Representative for Migration

She is a naturopath, body psychotherapist and owner of a naturopathic practice in Fritzlar and is committed to helping displaced and refugee families in her region.

www.naturheilpraxis-monika-paulig.de