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.
ESTHER VALLADO (Spain) is a committed environmentalist, founding manager of the environmental education organization “Asociación Biodiversa”, and a non-formal learning trainer specializing in environmental issues, nature connection, and personal development through nature-based methods.
She studied Environmental Sciences and worked for several years for some of the major nature conservation organizations. She found her true path upon discovering the transformational power of non-formal learning. Since then, she focuses as a freelancer on providing meaningful learning experiences in nature for young people and adults.
Esther is currently exploring the fields of systems thinking, degrowth, biomimicry, and neuroscience. She is a follower of Buddhist philosophy principles and likes to see herself as an Earth pilgrim. She believes in the power of individuals to change the world and dreams of a planet in which humans live in harmony with themselves, each other, and the environment we all share.
KRISTINA PAVLOVA (Bulgaria) Has been working with kids and adults since 2010. Her inspiration is based on deep connection with all beings, humans and more-than-humans, conversations that create space for diversity to take its place. A passionate environmentalist she likes to combine non-formal education with nature connection. Her passion for nature protection have lead her to global ecovillage network, community living, and numerous environmental NGOs. Personal and social transformation is what ignites all she does.