Our Team

Annick Nevejan is an integral trainer & counselor, and senior tutor for the Mindfulness Association UK and Europe (MSc). Her passion for the last 25 years has been exploring and facilitating personal and collective transformation processes, both in A’dam with her own company and abroad. 

Her work is based on an integration of Buddhist and Western psychology, neuroscience and the Theory of Living Human Systems. She is certified in Systems-Centered® Training and has a Master's degree with DasArts (AHK) as a community-based artist. 

www.nevejan.net

Maaike Boumans is a host, a trainer and a spoken word poet. She holds an MSc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability and has been working in social and ecological justice spaces for the past 8 years. She is an Associate Fellow Spiritual Ecology at St. Ethelburga’s Center for Reconciliation and Peace. 

She’d love to meet you on this journey!

www.maaikeboumans.com

Flo Scialom is a passionate facilitator, mindfulness teacher and community-builder. She holds an MA in Anthropology + Sociology, and currently works as Project Coordinator at Plum Village International Community of Engaged Buddhism, supporting an online course based on the Thich Nhat Hanh book, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet.

She also has experience running mindfulness sessions for a wide range of people - from new mums to community activists. She loves writing and reflecting on her experiences, particularly around how mindfulness relates to social change: 

https://mindfulchangeblog.wordpress.com.

About Ania Ektate BA

Coordinator of OtherWise (social-environmental justice)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniaektate/

I'm passionate about environmental policy and nature conservation through an interdisciplinary approach. I'm interested in a multitude of lenses, ranging from alternative governance and environmental justice, to spiritual ecology and Indigenous rights, in helping address the complexly intertwined socio-ecological crises that face our world right now. 

As a recent graduate, I am also looking for internship and job opportunities, so please feel free to reach out to me about the same.

About Suzy Rebisz MSc

Teaching Assistant, Facilitator and Community Catalyser

Research Assistant (SLM) and Facilitation Support (Wageningen Dialogues)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzyrebisz/?originalSubdomain=nl

Suzy Rebisz is a facilitator and practitioner in dialogue and mindfullness. Her practice is inspired from trainings in Systems Centered Theory, Deep Democracy, Art of Hosting and Spritual Ecology. She holds a double MSc in International Land and Water Management, and Rural Development and Innovation. With curiousity, she is keen to co-creatively build bridges between people, perspectives and processes.

About Jacob Wenzler

Jacob Wenzler is a Permaculturist with special focus on Syntropic Agroforestry. Furthermore, he is trained in pruning and maintaining old variety, high stem fruit orchards.

As a Meditation practitioner who is passionate about Regenerative Agriculture he is especially interested in the connection between inner and outer ecosystems.

He studies psychology with minor in gender studies

Permaculture and market gardening in Belgium, meditation retreat and training course. Volunteer work, school vegetable garden. Creation of a Permaculture Micro-Farm for educational purposes.

With Spiritual Ecology Netherlands we always work together with Gregory for our annual Spiritual Ecology retreats at Kagyu Samye-Ling meditation center in Beaumont, Belgium

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-michel-henry-7755366b/?originalSubdomain=be

On his work https://www.kagyusamyeling.be/index.php/fr/ecologie-2/permaculture

Lama Rinchen is the spiritual director of the Samye Dzong Centres in Brussels and Nidrum, and of Samye Ling Belgium in Beaumont (where we hold our annual Spiritual Ecology retreats).

Of French descent, Lama Rinchen Palmo is a highly experienced meditation teacher who has spent over 12 years in retreat and has previously assisted with the supervision of the long retreats on the South End of Holy Isle. She is specialised in the Vajrayana practices of Tibetan Buddhism, including the Ngondro. She is one of the four Western lamas who have been appointed within the Samye Ling mandala and is well known for her compassionate and down to earth style of teaching.

Website

https://kagyusamyeling.be/index.php/fr/decouvrir/l-equipe-2/les-enseignants

About Sicelo Mbatha

Spiritual Nature Guide from South-Africa

Author of the book 'Black Lion' (see resources for more info)

My name is Sicelo Mbatha; my wilderness name is Black Lion. I am a spiritual nature guide, working through my organisation Umkhiwane Sacred Pathways.  Nature has always been my spiritual home, my medicine and my teacher.

I have dedicated my life to fostering deep connections between humans and nature. I believe that this medicine is needed to heal the world from the wounds of  environmental destruction and social injustice.

Website https://www.umkhiwanesacredpathways.com/

Noortje 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/noortje-schrauwen-ab818714/

As a social entrepreneur, I develop projects that invite people to reconnect with nature and with each other. Starting my actions from my own deep connection to nature, I hope to inspire and help others to find meaningful ways to contribute to building a new, sustainable alternative to our way of living. 

Past years I've been working on cutting down (marine) plastic pollution by developing practical projects in public spaces. More recently, I have started working on landscape restoration and food forestry. 

I have a background in Cultural Anthropology and Industrial Ecology. Human behavior - and in particular our connection and relation to nature - has a special interest to me. As I believe the sustainability issues we face are rooted in a deeper crisis in our perspectives and values, I draw from the fields of Spiritual Ecology and System Thinking to give shape to my action.