Huxley, Justine Afra: - Dr Justine Afra Huxley is a writer, facilitator, spiritual ecologist and visionary. She co-founded the project Kincentric Leadership with Anna Kovasna, and leads workshops, retreats and trainings in many locations on how to align leadership and decision-making with the principle of kinship with all life. Justine is fascinated by many kinship-connected themes, including how we reclaim Earth-based spiritual practice; how we align our lives with natural cycles; and how we can enter into artistic collaboration with Earth and Her beings. For many years she was the CEO of St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, where she innovated programmes at the intersection of ecology, spirituality and peace-making. She has a Ph.D. in psychology and belongs to a Sufi community which has, over the last two decades, consistently oriented its focus towards reweaving our relationship with Earth and meeting the needs of our times. She has led meditation and dreamwork groups within that tradition for over twenty years. She is the author of Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change, a collection of stories about how the younger generations are reinventing spirituality and social action.
Johnston, Lyla June: - Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organiser of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.
Kovasna, Anna: - Anna Kovasna is a systems thinker, creative convenor, and passionate weaver of collective resilience and kinship with all life. She co-founded Kincentric Leadership with Justine Huxley, and works with communities globally to catalyse systems change and regenerative practice rooted in animist and relational worldviews. Through her longstanding work with the Global Ecovillage Network, Anna connects pioneering projects exploring how local communities can adapt, respond, regenerate, and inspire amid deepening polycrisis. She is also a co-founder of the Living Systems Alliance, a cross-movement initiative accelerating more-than-human governance and living systems design at a bioregional scale. Anna's approach blends participatory research, systemic frameworks, community-building, and a curiosity-driven, playful spirit. She creates spaces and tools for cocreation, regenerative design, and transformative learning, strengthening resilience and solidarity within and between communities worldwide. With a background in social anthropology, Anna has taught, researched, and worked internationally while remaining deeply rooted in grassroots movements for change. After many transformative years as a member of the Findhorn Ecovillage, she now lives in a multispecies community on a vegetarian permaculture homestead in the Pyrenees.
