Advisors

Nadine aims to help people live in deeper connection and harmony with nature, emphasizing the urgent need to address cultural beliefs that separate and place humans above nature. She contends that these beliefs drive ecological crises, including climate chaos and mass extinction. Nadine’s multifaceted career includes roles as a mindfulness and nature-connection coach, a mountain leader, and a part-time social researcher and systems thinking expert in the Scottish Government. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University and a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance. Her academic background includes a PhD in the psychology of pro-environmental behavior, and she contributed her expertise in social sciences and psychology to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.

William Rosenzweig is an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur, educator, and master gardener with over 30 years of experience in nurturing startups and mentoring entrepreneurs globally. He is a recipient of the Oslo Business for Peace Award and was the founding CEO of The Republic of Tea, helping establish the premium tea category in the U.S. He has authored influential business books, including “The Republic of Tea,” and has taught at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley since 1999, where he developed pioneering MBA courses in Social Entrepreneurship. Will co-founded Physic Ventures, focusing on health-centric investments, and has been involved in numerous ventures aiming for both financial and ethical impact, including a stint at the Rockefeller Foundation’s ProVenEx Fund. His leadership extends to the Vitality Institute Commission and The Food Business School at The Culinary Institute of America, making significant contributions to health, well-being, and sustainable food systems.

Leslie expands the role of psychology into interdisciplinary dialogues about climate change solutions. She is a cofounder of the Institute for Health & Healing, one of the nation’s first and largest hospital-based integrative-medicine programs, and author of Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician’s Guide (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2017).

Steven is an internationally recognized trainer in Motivational Interviewing, behavior change specialist and researcher with over 30 years’ experience. As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, he conducts workshops and designs intervention protocols for national clinical-research trials. Numerous national magazines have featured his articles on making positive lifestyle changes.

Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, constellation facilitator and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma and nourish self-warmth with exquisite gentleness. She teaches and lectures internationally, and is the author of the book Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing. She is currently at work on a second book, commissioned by W.W.Norton, on the relational neuroscience of the unconscious contracts that constellations so often let us disentangle.

Kristen Barker is the founder of One Earth Sangha.
 Kristin is exploring what it means to practice a robust response to environmental and social injustice. She is dedicated to cultivating broad-scale awakening to authentic earth relationship through living Dharma and advocacy. Kristin is a teacher and board member with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (DC), a GreenFaith fellow and graduate of the Community Dharma Leader program through Spirit Rock. Kristin is also a co-founder of White Awake whose mission is to develop awareness of race dynamics among white people. She holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from Duke University, has worked as an independent consultant and staff member at several environmental organizations. Kristin is a native of New Mexico and currently lives in Washington DC.

Caroline Hickman is an integrative psychosynthesis psychotherapist & Lecturer at the University of Bath, UK, and is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) for whom she has been developing an outreach program of trainings and workshops for schools and counsellors supporting people dealing with eco-anxiety. Caroline is also creating a series of podcasts on climate psychology and eco-anxiety, Climate Crisis Conversations—Catastrophe or Transformation. She has a TedX talk on climate psychology. She is researching children and young people’s feelings including eco-anxiety and eco-grief. She studies this in relation to the climate and biodiversity crisis using a psychosocial free association methodology. This helps to uncover and explore different stories, narratives, and images around our defenses against the difficult truth of the climate and biodiversity crisis. It also reveals hidden and less conscious feelings about climate anxiety, grief, the biodiversity crisis, and the Coronavirus. She is passionate about getting under the surface metaphorically and literally.