Meet our people

The facilitators and coaches you meet on your journey come from our partner organisations. It's an awesome line-up.
This highly diverse, transdisciplinary group is united in supporting and further developing our Edge Pedagogy and its approach to creating a resilient, adaptive, and impact-focused learning environment. We are all learners.




AMIT PAUL, Legacy17

Amit is passionate about change processes, innovation, and re-imagining the world. With one foot in the material and the other in the transformational he lives to create conditions for a regenerative economy. Amit is co-producer of World of Wisdom podcasts and co-founder of an RCO focused on personal, team and organisational development.




André Benaim, Legacy17

André enjoys creating the conditions for personal and organizational development. His focus areas are innovation and sustainable development. His work experience includes developing and delivering training and workshops, as well as working with innovation performance and capacity building. He is also a certified and experienced coach. 




ANNE ZIMMERMANN, COPERNICUS Alliance and Legacy17

Anne studied various literatures at various universities, then focused on multiculturalism and postcolonialism, finally engaging in inter- and transdisciplinarity in research and education for sustainable development. The connection between language and everyday life is essential to Anne: how do we shape and love our world with words? How can we unlearn domination through words and let them become live connectors between us?




ANNIKA PIIRIMETS, Legacy17

Annika is a former school principal, a polyglot senior project manager at Legacy17, and a psychosynthesis therapist. Her professional life rotates around a set of key words: psychosynthesis, therapy, transformative learning, mentoring, sociolinguistics, social sustainability, integration, behaviour change, bicycles, psychiatry, joy, adult education, languages, creativity, administration, freedom.




ANNA SHAKHOVETS, Legacy17

Anna Shakhovets is a consultant in business transformation, team coaching and leadership skills development. Her extensive background in business, negotiation and conflict resolution, coaching, mentoring and meditation enables her to offer a deeply human approach to change management and transformation.




BARBARA GRAZZINI, InEuropa

Barbara puts passion into everything she does, spreading enthusiasm and energy, investing in relationships, making connections and designing innovative projects that promote sustainable solutions. As co-founder of InEuropa she has built powerful networks of municipalities and civil society organisations in Italy and internationally.




BORIS GOLDAMMER, Visionautik

Boris is a passionate dreamer, Visionaut and activist with a long list of innovative projects to his name, many in the field of transformative learning, empowerment and facilitation. Boris has a background in aesthetics (design, photography) and has ventured boldly into computer-assisted areas such as an online toolbox, web design and app design




CHARLOTTE (LOTTEN) KARLSSON, Legacy17

Lotten’s passion is lifelong learning, with a focus on sustainable development and everyone’s right to learn on their own terms. She has 25+ years of experience in education, leveraging her two Masters degrees in geoscience and in preschool didactics. This background also captures the combination of seriousness and playfulness she brings into her work with transformative education.




CLARA WALDRICH, UIA

Clara’s background is in publishing. She is External Relations Manager of the UIA and Chairwoman of the Executive Board of the International Youth Library Foundation. She is also a lecturer in Media Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.




DANIEL KIRKPATRICK, Legacy17

A lifelong international educator, Daniel is an energetic and playful leader whose work as a consultant, coach, public speaker, and writer is informed by a deep connection to the natural world, a background as a martial artist, and a wildly creative and adventurous approach to life.




Jasenka Gojšić, Legacy17

Jasenka is a coach and facilitator of transformative learning, helping people to transform their lives, change their perspective on a situation, to find meaning and enthusiasm for the next stage.




JUTTA GOLDAMMER, Visionautik

Jutta’s passion and skills lie in empowering people as well as in providing innovative and creative settings of multisensory and joyful learning, ideation and development - both physically and online. She is an acclaimed international coach and adult educator.




Klaus Schenck, Legacy17

Klaus’ curiosity brought him from ecology to developmental neurobiology to immune genetics, culminating in a molecular biology Ph.D. Then on via marketing to management to leadership coaching, facilitation, teaching, therapy, and organizational development consulting. He’s also a master of metaphor.





LARA JELENJEV, NeuroDiversity Foundation

Lana Jelenjev is a healing-centered community alchemist, facilitator, and speaker whose work invites people back into relationship with their bodies, histories, and possibilities. Her writing blends neuroscience, somatic wisdom, ancestral remembering, and Filipino Indigenous psychology.




Lawrence Kampf , Legacy17

Lawrence is devoted to the creative emergence of living systems. A consultant, educator, coach, healer and artist, he supports transformation in visionary leaders, creators, and organizations across a wide spectrum of cultures.




LINDA BAKER, NHCA

Linda is a school teacher and counsellor with three decades of school experience. She facilitates ‘Systemic Constellations’ workshops, Other current activities include workshops for teachers and leaders in schools and organisations, individual and leadership coaching, classroom activities, and whole school activations. 




LYUDMYLA (MILA) GUREYEVA, Legacy17

Mila is an educator, a linguist, a facilitator, and a perpetual learner. With two decades of experience in higher education, she keeps searching for new ways of mixing methods and tools to inspire learners’ creativity. Resident in Kyiv, she chairs the Board of Legacy17, as one element of her wide-ranging international engagement.




MARILYN MEHLMANN, Legacy17 and UIA

Marilyn combines backgrounds in psychosynthesis, empowerment and action research to co-create new methods and tools for personal and professional development. She is a prolific author, speaker and educator who has worked in more than 20 countries to empower people and organizations to live and work more sustainably, and was awarded the Rachel Carson Prize 2011–2012. She is co-founder of Legacy17 and Vice President of the UIA.




MAINA WA’GIOKO, LUA

Maina is a passionate learning teacher, dedicated to innovative pedagogies and inclusivity, with over three decades of experience in education—two-thirds of which have been spent as a teacher educator. Maina prepares educators for the unknown future, inspiring them with self-regulated learning to propel their professional growth and drive transformative change.




MILOS BOROVSAK, Legacy17

Miloš is a psychologist with a background in education, research, high-tech industry and NGO management. His work includes developing transformative programs enabling young leaders to find their authentic voices.




NICOLE DIAMANTAS, Legacy17

Nicole is a changemaker, games master, and former school teacher, interested in exploring how sustainability and education can be advanced through storytelling and games to inspire transformation and meaningful action.




OLHA PROSINA, University of Education Management, Ukraine

Olha is an educator and facilitator working in the field of adult education, with a strong interest in transformative learning and supportive learning environments that help adults grow and rethink their professional pathways.




ROBERT GILMAN, Legacy17

Robert is an astrophysicist turned carpenter and community leader. He is co-founder of the Context Institute, of Global Action Plan International, and of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is a cultural-change thought leader whose current main focus is as organizer of the worldwide Bright Future Network.




RUTGER TAMMINGA, NHCA

Rutger has for nearly three decades worked with education throughout South-East Asia, including many years as director of an international school and kindergarten in Taiwan. He is a popular lecturer for a wide variety of organisations and government bodies on topics such as storytelling, children’s yoga, special yoga and neohumanist education, and is author of numerous books for teachers, children, and parents.





SID JORDAN, NHCA

Sid, a founding member of NHCA, has 50 years of experience: firstly as a clinical psychologist while teaching psychotherapy and community psychology at the Medical University of South Carolina; secondly as a teacher of yoga and meditation, i.a. at the University of North Carolina. He is deeply engaged in the work of the NHCA.




SASKIA WENNIGER, NeuroDiversity Foundation

Saskia is a learning designer, a media scholar and a strengths-based life coach specializing in working with neurodivergent and creative people. She loves learning, interacting in communities of practice and collaborating with like-minded people to co-create a more (neuro)diversity-friendly future that can lift coming generations.




SHEPHERD URENJE, Rector of TheLEN

Shepherd is an international strategic change maker and project manager with extensive experience from intergovernmental organisations in Scandinavia, Africa and Asia. A sought-after international speaker and teacher of sustainable and regenerative development, Shepherd is eager to develop more effective learning cultures in organisations.




STANLEY NYONI, Legacy17

Stanley is a Senior Sustainability Advisor and Trainer on Leadership. By working with communities in India, Africa, and Europe, Stanley has gained insight into what sustainable development means at the local level. He lists as his special interests: Sustainability planning, training and facilitation, regional development, dialogue methods, U-Theory, Art of Hosting, Moral Leadership.




SOKOL GASHI, Legacy17 

Sokol loves to merge things. In addition to being a yoga teacher, activist, podcaster and mental-health advocate, he is also a medical doctor. His interests range from medicine to mysticism to the use of music for healing purposes.




TETIANA VOLOTOVSKA, University of Education Management, Ukraine

Tetiana is an educator, mentor, and researcher dedicated to helping professionals grow through adult-learning principles, leadership development, and innovative, human-centred approaches.