Our People
Our Story & Community
Our Journey & Commitment
As a Centre and Global Community for Planetary Wisdom in Action, our commitment is the co-creation of a Thrivable World, from Our Future. Our Future is the creative dimension of our greatest possibility, it is from here that we birth new worlds by weaving new experiences into being through the wholeness patterns of thrivability, abundance, and prosperity.
As a consciousness growing community, we manifest and share the wisdom codes, processes, and practices for co-creating thrivable, evolutionary, and regenerative business, governance, and educational systems that actualize Our Future.
As Storytellers of a New Paradigm, a Narrative that Unites, we live Our Story as a celebration of our Unity in Diversity. This New Narrative represents a more integrated and direct expression who we are as a Humanity, born from our wholeness. We believe that deep in the heart of our larger story lives a beautiful message waiting to be shared and experienced. We are here to receive, experience, and embody this message, by being who we truly are Together. Our Story unites us and reminds us that each of us matters and that Love is our greatest power.
Our EARTHwise Team
Original Founders
Dr Anneloes Smitsman (PhD, LLM)
Dr Anneloes Smitsman,(Ph.D., LLM), is Founder, CEO, Vision Keeper and Wholeness Coder for EARTHwise Centre. She is a published author, storyteller, evolutionary systems scientist, thrivability architect, and a global catalyst for developing our Future Creative capabilities and Leadership for a Thrivability Civilization.
She holds a Masters degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a degree of Doctor from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, where she conducted her Ph.D. as external researcher at the International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS). Her PhD dissertation Into the Heart of Systems Change, was unanimously and unconditionally approved, and is gaining international traction for the innovative guidance it provides through its Transition Plan for a Thrivability Civilisation and for addressing the systemic barriers in resolving our climate crisis.
Anneloes is also a powerful teacher of Evolutionary Leadership, Sacred Feminine, Social Innovation, and Transformational Change, along with her work in thrivability sciences, which recognizes Life as a unified reality. Her unique programs, teachings, thrivability design principles, and consciousness actualizing practices have empowered thousands of people and organisations from around the world to step into their greatness and actualize our genius.
Her current passion is on developing the systemic architecture and collective leadership potential for co-creating a global thrivability Tipping Point Movement to resolve our greatest societal challenges, including climate change. She is part of the strategic leadership team of the Tipping Point (TP) Festivals and TP Music Concerts, and the lead architect of the Tipping Point System. The Tipping Point System also includes the application of musical strategies for deep transformational change. Anneloes was trained as a classical pianist in the Netherlands and was in charge of the organisation of the European Youth Parliament concerts in her early years. She has been studying harmonic voice techniques and learning opera for the last three years.
Anneloes is the author of the Amazon International Bestseller Love Letters from Mother Earth – The Promise of a New Beginning, a collection of 13 Letters in the voice of our Earth Mother for the actualization of our collective wisdom potentials. She was awarded the “Africa’s Women Leaders Citation 2018”, by CMO Asia & World Women Leadership Congress.
Her deepest commitment is Love in Action, as shared in her TEDx talk. To stand together united for issues that deserve and require our deepest care and shared responsibility. This application becomes visible in the way she carries her many evolutionary leadership responsibilities. Anneloes is a founding member of the Creative Board of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research and serves on the Board of the Global Education Futures Initiative. She is a member of the Global Change Leaders network, and served in 2018 as evolutionary judge for the Evolutionary Future Challenge.
Dr. Kurt Barnes (ND, DEA)
Dr. Kurt Barnes (ND, DEA, Histoire Uni of Paris 8) is Founder, Chair and Future Creative for EARTHwise. He is a senior psychologist with extensive professional experience working with individuals and organizations from all levels of society in Mauritius and internationally. He is also the Founder & CEO of 3CS, and an international psycho-social expert who has worked in this capacity among migrants in Africa, providing training and consultancy to improve their living conditions and eco-psychological health. He carried out this work with knowledge regarding implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to these issues. He worked for many years as well in Europe and North America. He is also a registered Naturopathic Physician and applies this with his specialisation in psychology, psychotherapy & bio-feedback. Kurt was trained in psychotechiques and higher states of Consciousness for the bio-feedback by Maxwell Cade and Geoff Blandell from the Institute for Psychobiological Research in 1979. Kurt’s corporate focus in consulting and coaching is in the area of communication for business management companies, as well as financial services companies. His rich multi-cultural background enables him to create important bridges of understanding and has made him a well sought-after adviser both in Mauritius and internationally. Through his advisory functions he consults on communication strategies and change processes which ultimately benefit society as a whole. In 1998 he acted as adviser for UNICEF and the Ministry of Women, Family and Child Development in Mauritius for the implementation of a program to prevent child abuse He was the only male adviser in this function. In 2004 he was Knighted in the Order of Academic Palms of the French Republic for his outstanding service. In his work for organizational development, his methodologies and courses ensure that the individual development of the members of the organization receives equal attention to build an organizational culture of empowerment and openness to change. His focus on working with people is always on empowerment and creating an enjoyable and creative learning and working space, which he finds both professionally and personally fulfilling. His clients include, amongst others, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Shell, J Kalachand, Mauritius Union Assurance, Swan insurance, Group Mikado, Neetoo Industries, Pallagames, White sand tours, Mauritours, UNICEF, and CITCO. He also serves on various educational and corporate Boards as a Director. Kurt is a MQA (Mauritius Qualification Authority) approved trainer and fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (MIoD).
Co-Founding Members
Justine Page
Justine Page is a co-Founder and Visionary Pattern Weaver for EARTHwise. She is a consultant, coach, facilitator, and public speaker, with over 20 years of multinational and multicultural experience, in marketing, branding and personal development. Her passion is transforming individuals and companies from the inside out through the empowering process of connecting people with their essence and their true potential. As a former executive at one of the world leading advertising and marketing company in New York, she has experience with international brands, blue chip companies and award winning campaigns. She has worked and lived in ten countries across five continents.
Her experience of working and living in a variety of cultures has built her credibility as a leader able to drive the creative process in brand building development across global, local and personal brands. She is a passionate brand image creator with a strong belief that you need to know yourself first from the inside before you can go out into the world and project this image on the outside.
She has developed her own training program based on this principle as a transformative marketing and coaching tool to help companies and individuals transform their image by connecting with their brand from the inside out. Justine holds a dual Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Psychology from the City University of New York. She has completed her own personal transformative training with EARTHwise and with Evolving Wisdom, and is currently completing her (International Coaching Federation) ICF Accreditation. She is a certified Feminine Power Coach and Facilitator, and is a member of the Global Feminine Power Leadership Community.
She is also a Board Member of the Global Foundation for Emerging Women Leaders. Justine lives in Australia with her husband and two daughters.
Prof Alexander Laszlo (Ph.D)
Alexander Laszlo (Ph.D), is a co-Founding Member, Evolutionary Catalyst and New Paradigm Storyteller for EARTHwise. He is the 57th President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), former Director of the Doctoral Program in Leadership and Systemic Innovation at ITBA, Argentina, Founding Core Team Member of NetSpirit, and former Director of the Doctoral Program in Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration & Leadership (EGADE-ITESM), Mexico. As Professor of Systems Science and Evolutionary Development, he currently teaches on evolutionary leadership, collaboration, and systems thinking at a variety of MBA and Doctoral programs internationally, and serves as President of the Honorary Board of Advisors of the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA).
He has worked for UNESCO, the Italian Electric Power Agency, and the U.S. Department of Education, has held visiting appointments with the London School of Economics and the European University Institute, and has been named a Level I Member of the National Research Academy of Mexico (SNI). He is on the Editorial Boards of seven internationally arbitered research journals, recipient of the Gertrude Albert Heller Award, the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award, and the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award, author of over ninety journal, book, and encyclopedia publications, and a 6th Degree Black Belt of traditional Korean Karate.
Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, he is holder of a PhD in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Policy from the University of Pennsylvania from where he also received his MA in History and Sociology of Science. His BA is from Haverford College, with a major in International and Comparative Political Science and a minor in Human Physiology.
His intellectual passion is to apply systems thinking, policy analysis, and technology assessment to processes of individual and collective empowerment that foster conditions for a thrivable planet. His professional objective is to engage in educational and community-building activities that curate the nurturance spaces for actions at systemic leverage points that help emerge a global eco-civilization.
Nicola Hoffman
Nicola Hoffman is a co-Founding Member, Evolutionary Catalyst and Pattern Weaver for EARTHwise. She is a Transformational and Intuitive Coach, Mentor, and Facilitator with decades of experience supporting people from all walks of life. At the heart of Nicola’s work is her deep belief in the power of each person’s intuitive knowing. She has a keen ability to witness and question while guiding each client towards reconnecting with their own inner wisdom for the actualization of their true potential. The essence of her work is based in the art of inquiry through imagery, meditation, and coaching. Nicola assists clients in remembering their connection to Self and all that is One.
Nicola is uncompromising in her message of love. While accepting each moment as an opportunity for growth and awareness, she is committed to being a midwife for personal process in times of instability, challenge or confusion. Because of her professional and personal study of loving “what is”, Nicola helps her clients seek clarity about their inner joy, peace and authentic contribution for the Good of All. This is her passion.
In 1986 Nicola received a cancer diagnosis which opened up her world to connect with the healer within. Following her inner guidance with a focused regime, Nicola was able to have a cancer free report in one month. In the early 1990’s she was guiding others to do the same in her healing practice. Through her unique life’s path at the University of Life, she has studied with numerous visionaries, illuminates, teachers, wisdom healers, shamans, and clinicians. This experiential knowledge and wisdom has been priceless for Nicola’s own practice.
Nicola has also gone through the EARTHwise training programs as a participant first. She, therefore, understands precisely the learning & developmental support that EARTHwise can bring to support our clients with her amazing coaching and mentoring skills. Nicola is also a Feminine Power Transformational Coach, and member of the Global Feminine Power Leadership Community, and is currently completing with them the Facilitation Degree.
She feels very fortunate to have lived a diverse life in East Africa, Ireland, Canada, and now resides in the U.S. on a small farm in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, daughter, 5 horses, and three dogs.
Team Members
Dame Kim Conrad
Dame Kim Conrad is a Pattern Weaver and New Paradigm Storyteller for EARTHwise. She is an internationally known global leader, consultant, corporate speaker and engaging facilitator. She is also the Founder of Sacred Life Living™, LLC. Her extensive revolutionary trainings embrace both knowledge and experiential based teaching styles. Her mastery of language makes learning fun and opens participant’s minds to embrace the conscious integration of their lives and their purpose. When she combines her 30+ years as a successful entrepreneur, with her conscious integration systems, participants and companies are able to co-create out-of-the-box tangible results in lifestyle, fulfillment and wealth.
Kim is a contributing author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul’s best seller, “Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries”. She is the quintessential example of going from tragedy to triumph and is an inspiration to all who know her story. Her latest award-winning book “Vice Versa Verse – Inspiring Twists on How to View Your Life and Fill Your Soul”, has been called “refreshing, profound and engaging.”
Kim has been called a “pioneer of language” and her voice a “healing medicine” “reminiscent of Maya Angelou.” She has shared the stage as an expert speaker along with many other recognized global leaders in their industry at various events including:
- The International Global Healing conference in Bali with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- The National Peace Alliance Conference in Washington, DC
- The United Nations International Day of Peace celebrations at the Colorado State Capitol
- The Women’s Economic Forum in India where Kim was honored to receive the “Iconic Leader Empowering Co-Creation” award.
Her performance experience spans a wide range of playwrights and TV shows including a nomination for the prestigious Robbie Award along with Jean Stapleton. Her artistic life’s work is part of the archives at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Kim’s long-term service as a core facilitator with the BoldLeaders’ programs has help youth leaders proactively step into their powerful voices and make a difference in this world from Colorado to Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, the Caribbean and beyond. As BoldLeaders’ founder Michael Donahue has said, “Kim is an extraordinary facilitator. She brings a commitment to her work that allows for results that leave the participant satisfied and the observer amazed.”
In 2018, the special honor of knighthood was bestowed upon Dame Kim Conrad by the Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitallers of St. John, now known as The Order of St. John Russian Grand Priory (OOSJ). This is the oldest historical charitable order to serve humanity, regardless of caste, creed, or ability to pay. Her professional background includes: Masters in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, Certificate in Management from the University of Southern California, Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington, Reiki Mastership
Meredith Lowry
Dr Meredith Lowry is an Evolutionary Catalyst and Pattern Weaver for EARTHwise. She is a Transformative Wisdom Coach, Facilitator, Mentor and Physician with over 40 years of experience supporting children, individuals, families, couples, and professionals to find greater access to their inner and outer resources to more fully meet and respond to “Life’s Call” however it shows up in their life.
The essence of Meredith’s work is to help clients gain a direct embodied connection to their innate wholeness, wisdom, and inner guidance as a means to inform, empower and transform their relationship with themselves, with others and with the greater field of life in ways that will expand and enhance their capacities and actualize their potential. Meredith partners with clients to explore and discover what is needed to transform their limiting beliefs and patterns into gifts, wounds into medicine, and challenges into opportunity to catalyze their full flourishing in life where they are freed to express, create and contribute their unique genius and gifts in meaningful ways that benefit the whole.
She loves Nature’s wild beauty, dance, poetry and the invisible world they open to us. She is a life-long learner with a phenomenologist’s perspective, and is a combination of naturalist, botanist, herbalist, medicine woman, scientist, philosopher, writer, poet, gardener, adventurer, traveler, contemplative and explorer of inner and outer landscapes of life. In having two mystical experiences as a young child where she had direct interaction with a life sustaining Presence of a hidden wholeness, her life quest became about living out of an embodied sensory connection with this Presence of wholeness while offering access for others to experience this relationship to their innate wholeness, their interconnection with the natural world, and this Presence that flows through and transforms all. She lives in Ashland, OR, USA.
Michael Haupt
Michael Haupt is a Wholeness Coder and Future Creative for EARTHwise and one of the members of the Tipping Point Festival Core Team. Michael's 25-year corporate career in technology was interrupted by 2 significant events:
- An out-of-body experience on a beach in Thailand in 2004, and;
- The birth of his daughter in 2014.
As a single dad, he has committed himself to bringing together the unique individuals and initiatives who, together, can build the kind of civilisation given to him in the vision received in Thailand. He aims to accomplish this by the time his daughter turns 21 in 2035.
As a certified Strategic Forecast Practitioner, speaker and writer, Michael is trained on how to proactively plan and create the future. He freely admits to not knowing exactly how this will work itself out but, from experience, knows that any major accomplishment can be achieved by strategically and systematically increasing the coherence of an initial idea until the idea manifests itself in tangible form.
Anna Ourusoff
Anna Ourusoff is an Evolutionary Catalyst for EARTHwise. She is a long time yoga instructor and mentor, focusing on heart-centered hypnotherapy, transformational life coaching and facilitating. Using her unique ability to name unseen and unspoken cultural patterns of shame, lack, and isolation, she supports people to remember the truth of who they really are, releasing their pain and clearing their way to actualizing their destiny path.
Through process work, meditation, and imagery, she guides people into their rich inner landscape to reconnect to their deep inner knowing. Her offering is a convergence of spiritual wonder, grounded truth, depth and humor. Anna’s journey of profound inquiry began as a trilingual child growing up in Holland, Belgium and France. This multi-cultural experience, coupled with her Russian ancestry, engendered a curiosity to seek connection to place, and to look for what is the same and shared in all people.
After graduating from Brown University (majoring in Semiotics: the study of sign systems as applied in anthropological, feminist, psychoanalytic, literary and art theory), she felt a strong call to spend time in nature, devoting herself to working as a professional gardener. For 15 years, she worked in stillness and intimacy with the world of plants, a great contrast to the years spent in intellectual classrooms. This formative time outside developed her sensitivity, love, and service to a larger planetary whole, beyond the dimension of human presence. She birthed a daughter who continues to bring her the highest joys, and the gifts of imperfection, humility, and surrender. Motherhood pushes her edge of embodying and modelling a healthy, divine feminine.
Anna recently completed advanced trainings and programs through Evolving Wisdom Inc. with Claire Zammit, Phd., and other teachers in transformational coaching, facilitation and leadership, with a focus on restoring the feminine principle to the balance of life. These courses have been life changing and have added modern skills to her 25+ years of studying and teaching yoga. She is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher, and has immersed herself in the vision and living of yogic non-dualism. She is also a certified Heart-centered Hypnotherapist (through the Wellness Institute in Issaquah, Washington) and is presently enrolled in a two-year internship honing her skills in group depth-work, transformation, and advanced transpersonal hypnotherapy. She loves to collaborate with other facilitators, leads group retreats, coaching circles, and continues to share the wisdom of yoga in classes, workshops and trainings.
Anna lives in Bozeman, Montana, USA where some of our planet’s great beasts roam freely. She is deeply humbled and inspired by mother Earth’s endless blessings, and dedicates herself to being in the out of doors in deep communion with plants, trees, wildlife, and the remembrance of her place in the grand pulse of Life. She loves to hike, bike, ski and move freely in the beauty of the natural world. As a devoted agent of change supporting the creation of heaven on earth, she has found in EARTHwise and its programs a family committed to the highest levels of integrity, responsibility and love. Anna is deeply honored and grateful to participate in its contribution to evolving conscious leadership at this pivotal time.
The Future Generations
The Future Generations are always part of our team. This includes the present children and youth, as well as the unborn children from Our Future.
We make it possible for them to participate freely in our Programs through full scholarships.
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The Journey Begins with YOU!
Our Governance Principles
Our Governance Principles are based on the Sixteen Indigenous Principles for Developing a Sustainable, Harmonious and Prosperous World. We apply and invest in these principles through Our Value Currencies. Our core decision making processes take place collectively based on consultation, visioning, and evaluation of feedback and inputs from Our Community.
Our Value Currencies
Our EARTHwise Value Currencies™ are the application of our core values in our behavioural transaction. A currency is what you generate, give, and receive in transaction with others. Our current societal transactions are depleting and degenerative. Hence, we have created our EARTHwise Currencies as value experiences that are generative, uplifting, and catalyze our conscious evolution. READ MORE.
Our Organizational Structure
EARTHwise Centre is a wisdom-based, global enterprise, based in Mauritius with branches in Australia, Europe, the USA, and Argentina. We work worldwide, providing conscious leadership, custodianship, online and in-person courses, Quests, leadership retreats, executive and personal coaching, consultancy, therapy, systemic research and educational programs for Thrivability.
Our Head Office, EARTHwise Centre Ltd (BRN C15131982), is a non-profit CSR registered company (NCSRF/2018/0005) in Mauritius, eligible for receiving CSR funding, and UN and EU international funding for non-profit purposes. Our non-profit activities include our EARTHwise Projects and collaborative initiatives.
Our Partners
As a Global Community, through co-creative partnership, we bring Our Future into being as a Thrivable World. We are grateful to our amazing Partners from around the World for Walking this Journey Together. We meet with our Partners online and in-person and amplify each other's message and purpose. If you like to join our Community as a co-creative Partner, please get in touch with us.
