Toscana (Main Hall)

Closing Ceremony of IEC 2025

IEC Conference: 2025

The conference team, volunteers, presenters and remaining participants gather in a circle of appreciation and acknowledgement, sharing highlights and words of gratitude. It usually culminates in many hugs and individual exchanges, as gradually those who leave that day travel back to their home countries, while others remain to take part in the gala dinner or even join the tour the next day.

Hungary

Bence Ganti M.A., integral psychologist, international teacher of integral psychology. Integral European Conferences (IEC) and Integral Academy founder and director. A dual citizen of USA and Hungary, gives keynote addresses, presentations, and workshops worldwide, including Integral Flow Groups. He lived seven years in San Francisco and has taught and held workshops in the US, Mexico, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Russia, Africa and other countries.

Germany

Hanna Hündorf, born 1960 in Germany, has been part of the core team of IEC since its inception in 2014. She helps develop the content, coordinates the workshops and presentations before and during the event, and is part of the main stage management.

Hanna has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1982, living for 15 years in Samye Ling, Scotland, where she completed two traditional three year retreats.

In 1997, after her first retreat, she began translating Buddhist teachers from English to German and intensified her studies of Buddhist philosophy and meditation in Hamburg and Nepal. She also started teaching at that time, and begun developing her own style of transmitting the traditional teachings and methods in a way that is appropriate to the Western culture, but retains the depth and power. At the same time she began reading Ken Wilber and adopted the Integral View.

After her second retreat in 2006, she returned to Germany to look after her mother. She worked in an old people’s home for 2 years and nursed her mother for 11 years, so that she could grow old peacefully and in dignity and die at home.

During that time, Hanna began giving courses on Buddhism and meditation and individual coaching sessions. She also became involved in the Integral Movement in Germany and Europe, with a special emphasis on organizing large gatherings.

She lives with her husband Ralf in the countryside north of Hamburg, Germany. In 2017 she joined his gardening firm, which is now her main occupation.

Austria

Christiane is a pioneering entrepreneur and a leading voice in transforming how humans relate to power and how they collaborate. With a career rooted in challenging the entrenched dominance hierarchies of society, she has dedicated over a decade to exploring how self-organization reshapes power dynamics and human interaction. Her life’s purpose—the unification of love and power—guides a deep personal and systemic journey that bridges individual transformation with collective evolution.

Christiane is the author of New Stories of Love, Power, and Purpose: A Global Invitation to Experiment with the Unknown (https://lovepowerandpurpose.com/book/), and is currently writing her second book, The Art of Conscious Collaboration. As she embraces her role as an Elder, she is deepening her inquiry into the role of the Matriarch in humanity’s evolution. She continues to inspire a global community through her writings, teachings, and mentorship—inviting us all to consciously co-create our collaborative endeavors to be spaces of being, doing, and becoming both individually and collectively in service to all of life.