Join us for an evening with remarkable women from around the world. Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures, will be in conversation with Rutendo Ngara, Thais Mantovani, Anja Lyngbaek, Camila Moreno, Eva Henje, and Darcia Narvaez.

Introduced by Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College

Find more information about the speakers below:

Rutendo Ngara - indigenous scientist (South Africa)
Rutendo is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems holder and transdisciplinary researcher. She is a practitioner of a number of physical disciplines, including Dance, Yoga and Wushu/Kung Fu/Tai Ji. Rutendo has represented South Africa as an international silver medallist in the latter. She serves on a number of boards, including the Credo Mutwa Foundation (as Chairperson), the South African Wushu Federation, and the ASSEGAIA Alliance for protection of sacred sites. She holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering, an MSc in Medicine in Biomedical Engineering, and is pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy of Education. The quest for harmony, healing the whole, co-existence and complementarity underpins her endeavors.

Thais Mantovani - environmental activist (Brazil)
Passionate about nature, Thais co-founded EcoUniversidade, an educational platform that drives systemic change by facilitating dialogues between different worldviews and opening space for a more regenerative human presence on Earth. She holds a MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College, is a Youth Climate Leaders fellow, and is part of the Global Regeneration CoLab network. In her current work, she focuses on developing transformative education methodologies that bridge modern and ancestral worlds, particularly in projects with indigenous communities.

Anja Lyngbaek - food system expert (Denmark/Mexico)
Anja is the Programmes and Managing Director of Local Futures, where she has been responsible for the Economics of Happiness International Conference Series, World Localization Day, and the Planet Local Summit among other. Anja trained as a horticulturist (Denmark) and studied Rural Resource Management and Agroforestry (Wales & Costa Rica). She is a long-time local food activist and localisation spokesperson on several continents. She divides her time between a Mexican ecovillage and her native Denmark. She is a passionate food grower and is happiest with her hands in the soil.

Camila Moreno - climate analyst (Brazil)
Civil society’s foremost expert on climate policy, Camila’s critical analysis of the nexus of carbon metrics, digitalisation and corporate power is unparalleled. Camila has followed the international climate negotiations closely since 2008, and from that experience has written Carbon Metrics and the New Colonial Equations. 

Eva Henje - neuroscientist (Sweden)
Eva has been engaged in mental health activism and education linking the meta-crisis and the globalized economy to the increasing rates of depression especially in teenagers and young adults. She has created the Training Awareness Resilience and Action Program (TARA) to empower and destigmatize young people with psychological suffering for an increased engagement in their future. She has also worked with the Power Threat and Meaning Framework as an alternative to the current psychiatric diagnostic systems. Eva is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, trauma therapist, neuroscientist and associate professor at Umeå university in Sweden.

Darcia Narvaez - evolutionary scientist (US)
Darcia is a Professor Emerita of Psychology (University of Notre Dame), and Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She employs an interdisciplinary approach to studying morality, child development and human flourishing, integrating disciplines like anthropology, neuroscience, developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, and more. Darcia founded EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredWorld.org. Her many publications include 'Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom', 'Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth', and, most recently, 'The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities'. She also co-created the film 'Breaking the Cycle'.

Helena Norberg-Hodge - director of Local Futures (Australia, UK)
Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and the recipient of both the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize. Through books, articles, interviews, films and public lectures on five continents, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than 40 years. She is the author of the inspirational classic ‘Ancient Futures’, the producer and co-director of the award-winning film ‘The Economics of Happiness’, and the founder and director of Local Futures.

Satish Kumar -  Founder Schumacher College (India)
Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 60 years. In 1962 he undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration and social justice. He is a world-renowned author and international speaker, founder of The Resurgence Trust and Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist – a change-making magazine he edited for over 40 years.

Location:
Old Postern Lodge, Schumacher College
Dartington, TQ9 6EA, UK

Time: 7pm

We hope to see you there!

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