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Pracha
Hutanuwatr, Thai activist and
intellectual, is a former Buddhist monk
with a socialist background. He has worked
under the guidance of Buddhadasa Bhikku,
a renowned, Buddhist monk and philosopher
who developed the concept of Dhammic Socialism;
and Sulak Sivaraksa, an influential, independent
thinker.
In 1988 Sulak and Pracha founded the International
Network of Engaged Buddhists. Pracha's
present positions include Director of
Wongsanit Ashram and Director of Spirit
in Education Movement, an NGO organising
Grassroots Leadership Training in South
East Asia. He has published several major
books in Thai. Recently he and Ramu Mannivan
published (in English): Asian Futures:
Dialogue for Change, which contained intensive
interviews with 14 prominent Asian thinkers.
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Jane
Rasbash lives at Findhorn Ecovillage
in Scotland and Wongsanit Ashram in Thailand.
She has been involved in participatory
community sustainable development in the
South East Asia Region for many years.
This included co-founding and establishing
the Grassroots Leadership Training programme
a community sustainability initiative
working in Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
She served as Executive Director of the
Alternatives to Consumerism Conference
in Bangkok in 1997 and follow up activities
on Spirituality and Globalisation. She
has co-written many papers on Engaged
Buddhism with Pracha Hutanuwtr. She now
serves as a 'needs based' consultant for
several NGOs Thailand and Burma. She is
also involved with Ecologia Youth Trust
a Scottish Charity with projects in Russia
and Thailand. She co-facilitates training
of trainer courses, proposal writing and
deep ecology workshops. |
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May
East is a Brazilian social change
activist who has spent the last 30 years
working internationally with music, indigenous
people, women, antinuclear, environmental
and sustainable human settlements movements.
Since 1992 she has lived at the Findhorn
Ecovillage in Scotland where she is the
Ecovillage Education Coordinator, the
Director of International Relations between
the Foundation, the Global Ecovillage
Network and the United Nations. May is
an sustainability educator and works internationally
as Programme Director of Gaia Education.
May is Director of CIFAL Findhorn, a United
Nations Institute of Training and Reserach
Associated Training Centre in Moray, Scotland. |
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Iain Davidson has over 30 years experience in the field of Technology and Computing for organisations ranging from small private companies to large multinationals (Group 4, AstraZeneca) and the UK Government (MoD, and the former DSS). He ran his own software development company for 8 years before moving to Findhorn. Until recently, he was the IT Manager for the Findhorn Foundation.
His current role is Strategic Development for the Education Department with responsibility for developing an online learning facility and video conferencing. In addition, he is a member of the Faculty and specialises in the delivery of courses and trainings in the field of Sustainability and Ecology, with a particular interest in how economics shapes our world.
He has been one of the Foundation's representatives on the Transition to Resilience Training Learning Partnership, and looks forward to deepening this work.
Prior to joining the Foundation, he trained as Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. |
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Michael
Shaw's field is ecological design.
He is a founding member of The Ecovillage
Institute at Findhorn and is a resident
Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. He
pioneered the Ten Stones ecovillage and
cohousing community with others in Vermont,
USA. An engineer by training, he has been
involved in all phases of the development
and implementation of natural wastewater
treatment and bioremediation systems including
Restorers since 1989 with Ocean Arks International
(OAI). With Dr. John Todd, founder of
OAI, he is the author of two wastewater
treatment patents. |
