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Who We Are

Roz Savage

Roz Savage is the first (and so far only) woman to row solo across the world’s “Big Three” oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian. She holds four Guinness World Records, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to fundraising and the environment.

Alan Vogl

Strategist with a successful history of business strategy development and connecting high-profile business partners. Skilled in holistic analysis and strategy development for China, business networking, international relations, and problem solving.

I came to Samara through a lot chance and good fortune. I found out about Seeds through a chat group in September and joined Samara in mid January after I was asked whether I would be interested and like to contribute. I have experienced the forming of an entirely novel entity, which started from nothing other than the desire to grow the Regenaissance and an idea! Samara changed my thinking by giving me honest hope towards new ideas and dreams, which I would not have trusted to succeed, before."

Joachim Stroh

Joachim Stroh is Hypha's project lead for the DHO (Decentralized Human Organization), prior co-founder of DigLife where he defined Cooperation-as-a-Service, prior founder of Sceenius, where he explored immersive online knowledge expeditions, prior co-founder of Change Agents Worldwide, a boutique consultancy that created new ways of work, prior knowledge management practitioner at Towers Watson, a leading HR professional services company. 

Bongani Wilson

Irina Stoica

I have always known in my heart that the world is much more than what I am being told and what I am seeing around myself. There was something inside of me waiting for a sign. Slowly a world of all sorts possibilities started to arise, in many forms and opportunities, such as permaculture, living systems, intentional communities, a world of harmony with myself, others and nature.

This new world wasn’t fitting any more in my standard corporate life. I embraced the change and stepped into the unknown. It proved to be more amazing than expected. I feel now that I am able to bring more of my gifts into the world and contribute to the vision of a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. 

Tyler Wakefield

Abruptly ended a promisingly unfulfilling career in silicon valley cleantech (really big batteries with really smart algorithms) to "live the questions now" such as, "Are we experiencing civilizational collapse?", "How much meditation is too much meditation?", "Is progressive climate justice Green New Deal activism helping anything?", "What's regenerative culture, and is this SEEDS thing actually going to work?" 

I'm told I'm a good facilitator and good writer so I do that and other things for Samara. Here's 3 minutes of me talking about my experience with Samara while trying to avoid a bee. Currently living "How can we do something 'loco', like pioneer an approach to regenerating an entire deforested, dewatered, and de-indigenized bioregion in Colombia simply by facilitating emergence?" 

Justin Joseph

Drigo

Jared Cordon

Fabi

My love for food brought me to Slow Food and the realization that our current food system is broken. Ever since I am on a path to transform the food system and advocating for good, clean and fair food. I have co-founded and am currently leading Switzerland's first food policy council in Zurich, weaving together organizations and initiatives committed to transforming the food system – in collaboration also with the city of Zurich to implement the sustainable food strategy. 

Attracting the right people in the right moments and being able to integrate them into a growing network o is a gift that I have – and the extensive network from being active in the space of Slow Food, Collaborative Economies and Festival Scene is becoming an asset as a SEEDS Ambassador. 

I strongly believe that SEEDS will play a big role in the Regenaissance and the healing of our planet.

What has brought me to Samara is the sensed need to make SEEDS and its tools accessible and useful to local communities and to create a space with a different cultural DNA from Hypha to support and nurture these efforts.
What has made me fall in love with Samara and kept me with Samara ever since are first and foremost the people of Samara: authentic, considerate, skilled and motivated individuals I feel deep appreciation. The possibility spaces opening up and the feeling of being at the frontier of a new paradigm is both thrilling and challenging at times. We still have to find and enact rhythms, practices and structures to allow us to work effectively as a decentralized human organization. And we may be decentralized, but we are certainly magically attracted around some core – which may be Samara herself. Even in its infancy, Samara manages to keep attracting the most wonderful people, which is what makes me regain confidence even in times where what we want to achieve seems too big of a task. 

Working for and with Samara has been an experience unlike any other working experience I've ever had. Both highly rewarding and healing and also sometimes frustrating and challenging. I feel that Samara has presented me with a unique offer to grow and learn and become a better version of myself. Something that we want to offer further to local regenerators and changemakers.

Jared

Dmitriy

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