FLUID TEAM PERSPECTIVE.
Even though names mentioned here represent those who carry main responsibility, the facilitation and organization is shared with a wider changing team. It’s a common practice in this program that participants become co-facilitators and co-organizers. Level of engagement is depending on their interests, experience and competencies. In fact this fluid team-structure and low barrier between hosts and guests is what makes this program unique. If you are curious to become involved upfront, let us know this during your application process.
MANUELA BOSCH [BERLIN], COLLABORATION ADVOCATE, CO-FOUNDER OF VANILLA WAY
Manuela has helped facilitate over 70 projects ranging from creative activism, education, media, HR, co-housing, family business, eco- villages, co-creative-spaces, open source tech, NGO’s, start-ups, healing projects and various more purpose driven organisations since 2010 and she has trained hundreds of entrepreneurs and change-makers in authentic-brand workshops, Dragon Dreaming project design and guides meditation, shamanic work and Social Presencing Theater
SVEN KUTZ AKA HUGE IS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST [BERLIN], COACH AND CO-FOUNDER OF VANILLA WAY
His passion is about communication and human relationships. Huge is mediator and studies with Institute for Systemic Impulses (ISI) Berlin. He is working since over 13 years with organizations in the cultural sector, especially with counterculture and artists. His life path is about creating space for community and inner growth. He is fascinated by the self-organization principles of nature and also studies those by taking care of bees and by helping Vanilla Way change agency network to flourish. Huge is the eldest brother of 13 siblings.
FYODOR OVCHINNIKOV [OAKLAND], CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER OF THE INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP
The Institute is a social enterprise that builds leadership capacity in public, private, and social sectors through cultural and institutional redesign. Fyodor is also Lead Instructor and Board Member of Oakland’s cooperative business accelerator Uptima Business Bootcamp and the driving force behind the prestigious Entrepreneurship Practice Award. Fyodor helps define and promote the role of entrepreneurship in creating a more just, sustainable, and flourishing world. Fyodor is a member of
the Stanford Executive Circle and a founding member of the Evolutionary Leadership Community. Fyodor on LinkedIn
MICHAEL SILLION AKA CAPTAIN FUTURE [SWEDEN] GUIDES CHANGE-MAKERS IN EXPLORING FUTURE BY DOING.
Through workshops, content production, strategic inquiries, co-creation experiments, and bridge building, Michael is setting in motion the ontological designing of tomorrow in the transition period here on Spaceship Earth. Michael is currently mastering his training skills under the mentorship of American humanist and evolutionary thinker Manuel Manga through the Evolutionary Leadership Community. Michael developed frameworks like Flourishing Me, runs the Captain Future Show, and cross-pollinates ideas among cutting- edge organizations and schools of thought such as Theory U, Strong Sustainable Business Models, and Impact Playground.
CURATION & COMMUNICATION
Vanilla Way is a international network of purpose driven change enthusiasts, founded in 2010. Driven by meaning, Vanilla Way is bringing together areas of organizational development, project guidance and lifelong creative learning, in order to support purpose driven teams and networks, in setting their transformative powers free.
Vanilla Way operates as an Open Value Network. This means there is neither a CEO, nor a legal-institution in the center or around our organization. There are different existing legal organizations availalable in service to the network. The Collaboration Incubator is facilitated by Platform Coop SmartDe in Germany and the Institut for Evolutionary Leadership in the US.
Our organizational structure is based on trust and self-management. Trust is developed in community-events, during the self-on-boarding-process and by doing projects together. Shared direction is guided by shared purpose, vision and principles. Governance is work in progress.
Bay Area based,
Training in cultural & institutional redesign
ORGANIZATION, DESIGN & FACILITATION
Oakland based, future imaginaries, celestial mystery, discourse and alternative economic and ecologic systems
BAY AREA HOME & SPACE FOR FUTURE
New York based, Brand Integrity and Social Innovation Consultancy
DEVELOPMENT & OUTREACH USA
Berlin based, Personal Development, Co-Working & Systems Change
COMMUNITY & VENUE BERLIN
Berlin based, Space & Community for Digital Culture & Platform Cooperativism
PLATFORM FOR IMPULSES & INTEGRATION
US based metanetwork,
Building Regional Resilience across America
MOVEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING