Annika Lübbert – Wageningen, NL. Author of this website. Annika cares to move – through emotions, concepts and questions, at the edge of understanding, in encounters, sports, craft and wilderness. Her movements have led her into research and training activities around interpersonal development and social structures that support co-creativity.
Pascal Frank – Wageningen, NL. Personal sustainability scientist, activist for inner development as the place to be – if you want to make a difference. Pascal is the one who got me on board the postdoc adventure in Wageningen – I am grateful and very excited for our collaboration!
Joe Dumit – Davis (CA), USA. An anthropologist of passions – be they brains, games, bodies, drugs or facts. Most articulate about just how strange we all are in doing what we love, and how our loving and living is influenced by what (and how) we ‘know’. Traveling around Europe and the US, his stories do trickster magic – they inspire us to let go and celebrate with strange creatures. At best: to join lichen in their slow partying and supportive napping. Ceaseless inspiration and support!
Katrin Heimann – Aarhus, DK. Courageous and dynamic, Katrin leads by example – by changing teaching practices at Aarhus University, through interviews at the brink of experience, and in her science that mingles with art and play. When Katrin and I met, we challenged ourselves to go ‘from what is, to what if, to let’s try!‘ – kindred spirits in our quest to embrace scientific practice as an intervention.
Lior Noy – Kiryat Ono, Israel. Rigorous scientist and playful academic, Lior uses his wits to (role) model co-creativity. Lior introduced me to the Mirror Game as a research paradigm, and to hfp-consulting as a portal into facilitating a humanistic culture change in science.
Willeke Rietdijk – Rossum, NL. Expert in contemplative education and phenomenology, practitioner, friend. Core member of the Enactive Research group.
Mary Rees – Houston (Tx), USA. Teacher and researcher of psychology and contemplative inquiry. Versed in the philosophy of body-and-mind. Core member of the Enactive Research group.
Alma Maria Simon – Amsterdam, NL. As a multimodal dancer and thinker, Alma knows how to use improvisation to enrich the meanings we make – by moving our bodies with real and virtual others, by making use of words and other technology. Alma and I look at subtle shifts in experience as access points into the shared root systems and atmospheres that we constantly create together.
Frank Schumann– Paris, FR. Accompanied by improvisation (jazz), nerdy wit, deep red burgundy wine and dark chocolate, Frank made his home in cognitive science and embodied practice (Feldenkrais). Frank got me talking to fellow researchers – soon emerged the Mindful and Enactive Research initiatives.
Lissa Streeter – Paris, FR. The one who called upon and equipped me to “make a life out of it!”. Lissa – food artist. Artist. Crafter. Her thorough work weaves honest neighbourhoods – vulnerable, inspiring and joyful webs of support and creation.
Florian Göschl – Hamburg, DE. As a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, he knows how to clarify hypotheses and trace lofty ideas down to their solid ground. Flo was my closest collaborator and invaluable companion throughout my PhD – among others along the countless kilometers we traversed both cycling and walking .-)
Pedro González-Fernández, Hamburg, DE & Barcelona, ES. Vested in modern composition, the performing arts and interdisciplinary collaboration, Pedro has a broad range of tricks in his hat to ease you into serious exploration. Pedro and I developed the sonified mirror game together. He got me interested in contact improvisation – a path that opened many other doors.
Asaf Bachrach, Paris, FR. Cognitive neuroscientist of improvisation, dance and language; articulate movement teacher and skilful host to explosively generative gatherings of science and art.
Enactive Research group – www, EU/USA. An initiative and research group that investigates embodied and relational practices of collaborating and knowing. Get in touch, visit our weekly meetings, participate!
Enrico Fucci – Fuerteventura, ES. Neuroscientist and neuroscience critic, open-science and mixed-methods activist, IGDORE board member.
Dav Clark – Phoenix (Ariz), USA. Techy, funky, nerdy – core participant of the early musings of mutual support, listening and co-creation.
Wolfgang Lukas – Graz, AT. The community-builder. Physicist and contemplative collaborator. Wolfgang is at the heart of the Mindful Researchers initiative.
Angela-Mara Florant – Hamburg, DE. Dancing, staging and facilitating, Angela-Mara enjoys (and extends) delicate invitations to explore together. She is my first contact improvisation teacher.
Erin Bell – New Orleans, USA. Researcher of cognitive science and biology. As a somatic practitioner rooted in horse work and artistic practice, Erin knows to look for a tingling sense of aliveness in her environment, work and personal relations.
The Mindful Researchers – www, EU. An initiative and network of researchers / people dedicated to a more kind, embodied, generous and collaborative academic culture. I contributed from 2020 to 2022.