My primary work right now is to consolidate all the learnings from the past 20+ years of professional life in various types of postions and sectors and to see how all elements are interconnected and how I can use all this knowledge and experience to create postive impact. Despite this I am fully aware of the fact that there is endless learning to do and new things to discover. Learning to see things differently is challenging despite being more conscious and aware of the world around us and how it plays out.
By working with tourism I have found an area where everything comes together, all sectors are connected, people meet people and cultures, experiences that can transform.

My role has been for the past two years and still is to engage people in the debate to make sure we move in the right direction towards sustainability and regeneration. It can be through projects, discussions, contributions without calling things by their name. My role has often been to bring people together and making them exchange, create networks and animate a debate. Maybe my role will change but this is where I am right now.

My short term goals have been to learn by doing as I engage in regeneration and learn about it as I go along. It really has been learning by doing and reading, participation in projects and also realising what I understand by regeneration by explaining it to others. However, in my job we have stayed very theoretical for now and both myself and Maeva would like to move more into the practical application of regeneration. We have long lists of examples that we can cite and discuss but we would like to get our hands dirty so to say and I definitley want to work on something concrete.

I have been through a whole spectrum of personal growth and development over the years, anything from shamans in south america self help books in the early stages. This was long before I discovered sustainabiltity as a field of exploration and then subsequently regeneration a few years ago. Quite clearly the spiritual "experience" and connection to nature is essential for any regnerative work and it is easy for me to understand the links, they are natural to me by now. This part of regeneration is not new to me. This is actually quite a difficult question to answer because I have not thought about it. I am currently thinking much more about the professional aspect of regeneration. However, I would say the main element to work on would be personal relationships.

We only really grow through experience and practical application of concepts I feel. So this is definitely the next step. The possibility to apply concepts and thinking and do it in the right way. The next step is definitley a concrete project to work on and explore all aspects of regenerative thinking.

Quite a lot. Personally it has been a stuggle to progress in life, especially for the first 10 years after my studies. I have led a quite nomadic life for many years with changing jobs, away from family, making new friends and losing them again because of changing locations. Working internationally has always been in my blood which explains the work I still do today, working on international projects. I have sacrifised quite a lot without too much hesitation to follow my intuition and "purpose". For the past 10 years this has changed, though, since now, next to my job, it is really my familiy that counts and I'm no longer prepared to make the same sacrifices.

I have a background in cultura and education. Learning and lifelong learning are an everyday activity for me and I also workk on these kinds of educational projects to advocate for lifelong learning. I have have a couple of mentors in my life who have greatly contributed to confirming my path or helping me shape it in the way that has worked for me. The list of thinkers I have studied is long and I don't have anyone in particular in mind that I could talk about.

Ok the most difficult question for the end. I really don't know. I would say humans should play the role of living in harmony with nature and mutual benefit and care. But this is not necessarily the role humans play today or many of them want to play today. A large number of humans are lost and have lost touch with what life really means or should mean.