Integral Ecoawareness

As developers and facilitators of the Integral Ecoawareness process, we support the pedagogical paradigm shift from outside authority to self-responsibility.

Satu Palokangas
is a performer, artist/activist, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and a Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist. In her work she advocates the systemic approach and teaches movement as a way of thinking and as a mode of research. As our actions are based on our perceptions, she sees that the key to change lies in realigning our perceptions with our interconnected nature, learning to perceive in multiple ways and learning to think like we were dancing. Along with somatic techniques and bodywork, Satu uses improvisation (movement, voice) and performance tactics as methodologies in her work.

Satu can be contacted at sp @ integralecoawareness.org

Stefa Roth
is trained and gained experience internationally in different creative areas (acting, film, Tango Argentino). Her talents and interest made her engage in bodywork-techniques (massage, Shiatsu, Yoga) as well.
Being in nature and observing nature, the rhythms and patterns of it, is one of her most precious inspirations and teachers. Living and working on organic farms in France and Italy she got involved in Permaculture and Systems Thinking.
As everything naturally evolves in cycles, also a learning process is not a linear one, thus being an ever present aspect of Stefas life and work.
Integrating all this different approaches and knowledge, she is now working as artist and sustainability educator. Focus of her projects are the communication and implementation of an eco-centered, integrated way of experiencing, thinking and living.

Stefa can be contacted at sr @ integralecoawareness.org

Lars Schmidt
is a poet, facilitator, project developer and permaculture designer.
As founder of Art, Ecology & Education and author of the Declaration of Cultural Revolutionaries 2009, Lars is a pioneer and visionary in the field of creating and facilitating transformative processes and projects for integrated, sustainable living.

He has explored the creative process in many different art forms. He studied acting, dance and singing, as well as photography, in Germany and the US, worked internationally as actor for film, television and theater, as acting coach, photographer, musician/singer/songwriter, filmmaker and poet.
Due to his love for nature and curiousity about personal processes he has been living and working on organic farms in France and Italy, and is engaged in permaculture and living systems theory for several years.
Lars continues to be a researcher and learner, engaging in and including fields as versatile as body- and energywork, argentine tango, various forms of percussion and herbology.

His work would like to inspire authentic access to knowledge and insight about an integrated way of perceiving, thinking, acting and relating – regarding life as a creative, self-organizing process and providing the opportunity to develop a lifestyle which is sustainable, meaning- and delightful.

Lars can be contacted at ls @ integralecoawareness.org / website