Born in Barcelona, Maths and Philosophy studies at York University.  Management positions at International Red Cross, Geneva Council and Deutsche Bank.  Co-founder of Swiss Alternative Bank.  Meditation teacher for 10 years in UK, India, Brazil, Spain and Switzerland.  Naturopath, De-armouring Mind-Body Work practitioner, Jungian therapist, Tantra Teacher and trainer of teachers at SkyDancing Tantra International Institute.  Member of Integral Politics Movement in Switzerland.

Currently researching the links between C.G. Jung’s Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics.  This is pointing towards a new global Paradigm where Psyche and Matter form a Continuum, where the barrier between “Inner” and “Outer” collapses, where binary thinking becomes multidimensional, thus generating a major human quantum evolutionary leap, underlying the new level announced by Clare Graves and Ken Wilber’s views of evolution.

Simon is a corporate organization developer, facilitator and coach for teams and executives. He has been helping to democratize workplaces since 2012. He specializes in aligning groups and empowering individuals.

His work draws on integral theory, developmental psychology, and agile methodologies for managing complex adaptive systems.

After encountering Integral Politics Switzerland (IP) at IEC 2020, he was inspired by their vision of a society with significantly enhanced well-being through an integral approach, and immediately became involved. Simon has been serving as IP’s co-chair since 2022.

Dr. Elke Fein is a social and political scientist and holds a PdD in Russian Studies. Her academic focus is on large scale socio-political transition processes, leadership and political culture, using adult developmental approaches. Elke is also the co-founder and managing director of the Institute for integral Studies (IFIS) in Freiburg/Germany. She has initiated and coordinated the EU-funded “Leadership-for-transition (LiFT)” project (2013-2022), among them the Strategic Partnership LiFT Politics (2019-2022), which explored political innovations based on integral and meta-modern ideas across Europe. One of the results of LiFT Politics is her book “Foundations, Principles and Inspirational Resources of Integral Politics” (2023). Elke is currently building up a School for Integral Politics as a space for learning and experiencing a new, holistic/integral paradigm of doing politics. Contact: fein.elke@gmail.com, www.ifis-freiburg.de.

Karen O’Brien is a professor of human geography at the University of Oslo and co-founder of cCHANGE, an organization that promotes a conscious, creative, collaborative, and courageous approach to sustainability transformations.  Her research focuses on the human and social dimensions of environmental change. She is committed to understanding and engaging with equitable transformations to a thriving world. She promotes integrative approaches to sustainability that recognize how beliefs, values, worldviews, and paradigms influence systems change and social change. Karen is researching how to scale transformative change and exploring the potential for quantum social change in theory and practice. Karen’s recent books include You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World and Climate and Society: Transforming the Future (with Robin Leichenko). She was recently co-chair of the International Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) transformative change assessment. In 2021 she was co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Climate Change.

Spiral Dynamics was a revolution to me. I used to despair about the state of the world, finding only errors in our past. Suddenly there was this model that showed stages of evolution, with a meaning, with their lights and their shadows, suggesting hope of surmounting our current sufferings and continuing onwards. The Integral Theory also played well with my curiosity, my appetite for enlarging my horizon and my ability at combining seemingly distant fields. The discovery of Jung’s thought several years later gave even more sense to this willingness to connect various fields and topics together, along the path to individuation.

This taste for seeming opposites manifests in my professional life, starting out as an engineer and moving on to being a graphic designer, IT developer and conflict mediator.

After years of inner work and profound transformation, I have found in the Swiss Integral Politics movement a home where I can manifest this back in the outer world.