Meet Our Consultants

Founder of the Ecovillage Training Center in Tennessee, past president of Global Ecovillage Network and author of 16 books on history, ecology and the future, including Climate in Crisis (1990), The Biochar Solution (2010) and The Paris Agreement (2015). He has been a resident of The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee since 1972. He holds degrees in political science, law and permaculture, and certifications in emergency medicine, horsemastership and forest management. He was co-recipient o… View profile

Kosha Joubert, MSc served as Executive Director of the Global Ecovillage Network. She has many years of experience as an international facilitator, trainer, and consultant and has worked extensively in the fields of community empowerment, intercultural collaboration and sustainable development. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to building bridges across divides ever since. She has lived in ecovillages for the past 25 years. Kosha is also a co-founder of Gaia E… View profile

Currently working as secretary for GEN-Africa. Sonita is currently combining an MSc in Integrative EcoSocial Design with Gaia University while representing the youth wing of GEN (NextGEN-Africa) and coordinating the Bafut Ecovillage project. She was born in Cameroon and has dedicated the last 4 years reconnecting young people to the land and carrying out youth entrepreneurship and cross-culture education programs through youth camps, and initiatives related to climate change adaptation. She is w… View profile

Mugove’s academic background is in Environmental Education with a Master of Education from Rhodes University in South Africa in this field. He worked for 14 years at various levels in the education sector in Zimbabwe, and since 1996 he has been a Permaculture teacher, Project Manager and Environmental Activist. His Permaculture teaching experience and environmental activism has been specialized on working with school communities. The geographical coverage of his footprint includes Zimbabwe, Mala… View profile

Agronomist and environmentalist specialized in agro-ecology with 25 years of experience, yoga teacher, reiki master, agro-ecological farmer and beekeeper. He recently established his own agro-ecological farm (The Humanistic Farm- Ma’azouza). Dagher is the one, who introduced Palestine to agro-ecology 15 years ago. He established the first eco-village in the West Bank of Palestine. He is a member of Sharaka (means partnership) group (a Palestinian voluntary group working in supporting Palestini… View profile

Anna is dedicated to exploring community as a tool for resilience, regeneration, and liberation. She is the co-founder lead of two initiatives – Ecovillage Resilience 2.5+, doing participatory research with 20 communities about resilience in the face of catastrophic climate change; and Kincentric Leadership through the Polycrisis, supporting leaders to integrate the more-than-human world in their strategies and activities. Anna previously served as the lead of GEN’s strategy and coordination cir… View profile

Macaco Tamerice has been living in the ecovillage of Damanhur, Italy since 1993. For several years she has been working in international relations for Damanhur and is its Coordinator of International Community Relations. In 2008, she became Vice President of GEN-Europe, and in 2010 was elected President, staying in office until 2015. She is now serving on the Advisory Board of GEN- International, and is President of the non-profit Association Damanhur Education that organizes trainings for susta… View profile

Robin Alfred, BA, M Phil is a trainer, coach, facilitator and organisational consultant. Since 1995 he has lived in the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage, Scotland where he has Chaired both the Foundation’s Management Committee and Board of Trustees. In 1995 he co-founded the Findhorn Consultancy Service. Robin has been a faculty member of the Findhorn Foundation’s Ecovillage Training and represented the Findhorn Foundation on the two-year ‘Transition to Resilience” Learning Partnership pro… View profile

Taisa works as a trainer, consultant and researcher on various topics related to sustainability, social innovations and community life. Master´s on Psychosociology of Communities and Social Ecology at EICOS Program/UFRJ – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Ecovillage Researcher. ICSA – International Communal Studies Association board member. CASA Brazil council member. Instructor and Coordinator of EDEs – Ecovillage Design Education Programm View profile

Achim Ecker, born in 1959, studied Social Work. He has lived and worked in the intentional community, ZEGG, Germany for 30 years and has taught communication skills for over 20 years. He is ZEGG’s chief landscape designer, creating fertile soil and an edible landscape on glacial sand using Permaculture knowledge. He always seeks new edges to learn and teach. Since 2013 he has produced Biochar and Terra Preta soils. Building soil is his greatest passion – real soil in nature and building the grou… View profile

I am a regenerative design and development practitioner. I serve as GEN Ambassador and Consultant. I used to work for GEN International coordinating the UN and advocacy working group from 2015-2017. I am inspired by the emerging shift from “sustainable” to regenerative development. I co-founded an organization called Green Releaf in the Philippines working with communities recovering from emergencies (natural disasters and conflict) and communities activating local regeneration. View profile