Trainers team
The trainers’ team has a rich experience in providing life changing experiences in safe but challenging learning environments. The “guides” of the learning process are professional youth workers, international trainers, people with strong backgrounds in human development and psychology, with high ethics and working principles. The team is composed of:
CHARI CÁMARA BEVIÁ (SPAIN) is teaching activists, illustrator and game designer. Daily life curiosity inspires her to create art that bonds educational games, creativity, sustainable education and sensorial awakening experiences together. With Nature as a kindred spirit, she creates projects that empower active citizenship, community creation and playfulness to inspire humans to awaken their ecosocial responsibility and take better care of our planet, starting from our own home. Projects like MAPA, selected as a finalist on the New European Bauhaus 2022 prices. She runs her own game brand, Mekiplay, self editing her own games locally using serigraphy and other manual printing techniques. She is the president of La Trans Educativa, an association of art educators that runs Erasmus + projects since 2020. She recently opened a Cultural space in Murcia under her association wing called Planta Creativa, an open space for cultural gathering, creative cooperation and community building. Among other things, she loves origami and improvising songs with her ukelele
MARIA ‘MARUSHKA’ LEBIODA (POLAND) is a youth worker and trainer of forest school and outdoor education, wild nature pedagogy and intercultural communication. She works mostly in the local context trying to encourage people to take more responsibility for the reality they create and live in. She is an enthusiastic individual, using her passion for experiential learning outdoors to engage both young people and adults to develop their social and cultural skills. She has her own project called PINE Education in the Nature (PINE Edukacja w Naturze), which she develops in a little village in Western Poland, trying to inspire people to spend more time in Nature, understand it better, get closer to it and build stronger relationships with other humans.
OGNIAN GADOULAROV (BULGARIA) is a passionate naturalist, rock climber and expert of wildlife, birds and forests. For 13 years, he has been working in the field of non-formal education and personal development. Ognian supports people to unfold their full potential in life and to discover themselves. He is a trainer with interests and experience in meditation, yoga and energy practices. His favourite topics are personal development, self-discovery, responsible consumption, sustainability and environmental protection. He lives as an activist for cultural evolution, re-sacredtising life and reconnecting people with the more-than-human-world. As a participant in the Great Turning, he likes to be known as Fire of Life and The Tree Listener, dedicated to the Great work for fair future for all living and nonliving beings on Earth.
Ognian is part of the Nature-based Wholing and Self-healing Wild Mind Training Programme (WMTP) at Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institute, Colorado, USA.