About EARTHwise Centre
Our Purpose & Commitment
EARTHwise Centre a non-profit company, dedicated to providing leadership, education, research and design for the transition to a thrivable civilization.
The word "EARTHwise" means to live and act from the wisdom of our planet, based on the Cosmic architecture of Life.
Our organization is registered in Mauritius with international chapters in Europe, Argentina, the USA and Australia.
Through our EARTHwise education programs and online courses we support people to develop their capacities as "future humans" of a new era.
Our EARTHwise Team
Dr Anneloes Smitsman (PhD, LLM)
Dr Anneloes Smitsman,(Ph.D., LLM), is Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre. She is a visionary scientist, published author, futurist, system architect, and leadership catalyst for the transition to a Thrivable Civilization.
She holds a Masters degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and received a degree of Doctor from the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where she conducted her Ph.D. as an external researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (formerly ICIS). Her groundbreaking Ph.D. dissertation Into the Heart of Systems Change, addresses how to diagnose and transform key systemic barriers of our world crisis through its proposed Transition Plan for a Thrivable Civilization.
Anneloes is the co-author of the Amazon #1 Bestseller The Quest of Rose, the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy with Dr. Jean Houston. Written as an allegory, the trilogy weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what’s happening in our world right now, with cutting-edge insights from the new sciences, indigenous wisdom, and consciousness teachings for discovering the greater possibilities of our future becoming.
Anneloes is also the author of the Amazon Bestseller Love Letters from Mother Earth – The Promise of a New Beginning, a collection of 13 Letters in the voice of our Mother Earth for the actualization of our collective wisdom potentials, which is coming out in audio form later this year produced through sound expert Alan Howarth.
Anneloes is the lead architect of the EARTHwise Tipping Point System and the Tipping Point Wisdom Collaboratory. She is also the lead author of the r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint, and an architect of the SEEDS Constitution where she applied her Thrivability Compass design and Future Archetypes codes, as well as an architect and researcher for SEEDS and Hypha for co-developing the Regenerative Renaissance tools, currencies, systems, and cultures.
Anneloes is a powerful teacher of Cosmic Architecture, Evolutionary Leadership, Feminine Wisdom, Social Innovation, and Transformational Change. Her unique transformation programs, teachings, and practices have empowered thousands of people and organizations from around the world to discover and develop their future potential and evolutionary capacities for this tipping point time.
She was trained as a classical pianist in the Netherlands and was in charge of the organization 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. 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 has provided training, executive coaching, consultancy, and project development for the Mauritius Government, the Shift Network, UNESCO, the Mauritius Institute of Directors, LUX* Resorts & Hotels, St Regis Hotel, the Mauritius Commercial Bank, and the Indian Ocean Commission, among others. She developed the Education for Sustainability program for the Mauritius Catholic School’s Network through which she trained over 300 teachers, which served as national input for the curriculum innovation in Mauritius. Her multi-stakeholder dialogue process was adopted in 2012-2014 in 9 different countries for the UN Rio+20 civil society inputs, and she trained the youth leaders of SIDS (Small Island Developing States) under UNESCO for the 2014 UN SIDS Youth inputs for the UN SDG formulations.
Anneloes is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, which is a project of the Source of Synergy Foundation, a founding member of the Creative Board of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, serves on the Board of the Global Education Futures Initiative, and serves as a R3.0 Advocation Partner,
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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).
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.
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
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 an evolutionary non-profit enterprise registered in Mauritius with branches in Australia, Europe, the USA, and Argentina. We work worldwide, providing evolutionary leadership, system architecture, regenerative design, 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.
