Trainers team
OGNIAN GADOULAROV (Bulgaria) is a passionate naturalist, rock climber, and expert in wildlife, birds, and forests. For 11 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 guide with interests and experience in meditation, yoga, and energy practices. His favorite topics are personal development, self-discovery, responsible consumption, human-nature reciprocity. He lives as an activist for cultural evolution, re-sacredtising life and reconnecting people with 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.
Оgnian is part of Nature-based Wholing and Self-healing Wild Mind Training Programme (WMTP) at Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institute, Colorado, USA.
TONI MALLACH (Sweden) is a violinist, dancer and connection weaver. They are a curious human being, fascinated by communication: telling stories through dance and music, finding stories through improvisation theatre and listening to stories through community building practices such as deep listening and non-violent communication.
Toni dreams of a social and ecological regeneration of human society and planet Earth. They wish for humanity to find back into the ecological system. This dream led them to live in an eco-community and to become part of the Global Ecovillage Network. With the aim of spreading new ways of Being, they share their passion as a trainer and facilitator. Their life mission is to create spaces for love and laughter, for feeling and expressing, listening and holding and daring to step into the unknown.
Toni holds a masters degree in classical music performance from the Royal conservatory of Brussels and an Ecovillage Design Certificate from Gaia Education.