HOSTING THE CONFERENCE

BENCE GÁNTI (USA/HUNGARY)
IEC director and main stage anchor

Bence Ganti, MA, is main organizer, the co-founder, and director of the Integral European Conferences (since 2014) who works full time on IEC-s for five years now in a rowm and the co-founder of Integral Europe team (since 2012). He created the the 3-year adult education program on integral psychology, in Hungary, called Integral Academy in Budapest (since 2006). Bence is an integrally oriented clinical psychologist, vipassana meditator, and international teacher of integral psychology.

Being a dual citizen of the USA and Hungary, Bence bridges cultures delivering keynote addresses, making presentations, and leading experiential workshops worldwide, including his version of a cutting-edge we-space practice called Integral Flow Experience. Based on this he has created the International Constellation Processes at the Integral European Conferences. In the USA he has thought integral psychology at Meridian University and San Francisco State University in California and at integral events at Bay Area Integral, Integral Center in Boulder, and the Integral Theory Conferences. Bence has been teaching also in Mexico, Colombia, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Portugal, Bulgaria, and South Africa. He represented integral consciousness during the World Economic Forum week in Davos, Switzerland in 2019. Ken Wilber asked him to be the European coordinator of Integral Institute.

To honor the man who gave the world the integral vision, he teamed up with John Dupuy to create the Ken Wilber Gratitude Fund in Washington, D.C. and is currently serving as a fund trustee to thank Ken Wilber for his life work. For more details, please check out the websites associated with Bence’s work linked below.

http://www.benceganti.com/
https://www.integralflowexperience.com/
http://www.integralacademy.eu/
http://kenwilberfund.org

THE ORGANIZING TEAM

Joining Bence for the active work of building up the conference. All throughout the year together, as their daily part time or full time work.

HANNA HÜNDORF (GERMANY)
Presenter Selection and Communication and Program Logistics

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 for 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 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 in North Germany, has joined his gardening firm and gives coaching sessions. She translates from English to German at the celebrate life festival, and for Terri o Fallon.

http://mandala-gartenbau.de/
http://hannahuendorf.de/

ILDIKÓ FIEDER (HUNGARY)
Main Coordinator

Ildikó has joined the IEC team in 2022 and holds the main coordinator role, with responsibilities in the general organization, registration and management of participants. She finds the holistic, system-based approach important in her work. 

She is also an environmental engineer, having worked as environmental specialist for 14 years and most recently as the head of the department at the Ministry of Environment in Hungary. She served as an expert on environmental protection and sustainability. Along with legislative and strategic development tasks, she has participated in the organization of work groups and forums. 

During those years she also studied inner healing, which introduced her to the world of spirituality, meditation, and personality development. Between 2018 and 2021 she completed the 3-year integral psychology program at the Integral Academy of Hungary. Becoming a certified integral counselor there, she has kept developing herself both professionally and individually. In this, she focuses on inner imaginary modalities and is also being trained by Bence Gánti in integral group work facilitation in his integral flow process.

JO KOVÁCS (HUNGARY)
Main Coordinator

Jo has joined the IEC team in 2024 and holds the main coordinator role, with responsibilities in the general organization, registration and management of participants. She finds the holistic, system-based approach important in her work. She is a finance professional with international work experience having had the opportunity to collaborate with people from all around the globe throughout her 12 years in finance. Between 2016 and 2019 she completed the 3-year integral psychology program at the Integral Academy of Hungary. Since becoming a certified integral counselor, she has kept developing herself both individually and professionally, where she focuses on inner imaginary modalities and has become nonverbal bodywork group facilitator assistant. Currently she is being trained by Bence Gánti in integral group work facilitation in his integral flow process.

TAMÁS HERMANN (HUNGARY)
Social Media Coordinator

Spending my adolescent years on the early internet, I’ve had the pleasure of being confused in a time when Ken Wilber youtube videos existed. By the time I starting a psychology undergrad in one of UK’s top 10 universities, I’ve worked with Philip Zimbardo, became coach, and I was determined to ponder spiral dynamics, the tao and (or rather in) altered states in higher education. To my disappointment, none of the professors had known Wilber, nor Beck, Kegan, Cook-Greuter. Neither were my peers into these juicy abstractions, so as covid hit the 3rd term of my first year, I moved on and joined the 3 year Integral Psychology course at home, in Budapest. Since then, I’ve specialised in topics related to my age: integrating mediums, memetic social cognition, generational mediation. I became a speaker, a Gen Z group facilitator, marketing guy at IEC.

KATA ZSÁK (HUNGARY)
PR, communication and social media expert

With over 13 years of experience in PR, marketing, and social media management, I have worked in diverse fields, including roles in Cologne and Berlin at a software development company, a PR agency, and in the civil sector. My career highlights include managing major projects such as the expansion of Bridgestone's factory in Tatabánya and organizing international events like a gallery opening in Berlin. I have also led high-impact campaigns, such as coordinating the "Maszkot a Frontra" initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, I’ve transitioned to freelance work, where I realized that personal barriers often hinder professional engagement. This insight led me to integrate coaching tools and the Integral approach into my work, offering clients not only marketing expertise but also a human-centered and self-identified approach to communication.

KATA KISZEL (HUNGARY)

Hello, my name is Kata Zsófia Kiszel. I graduated as a nature conservation engineer. The love of nature and its transmission has always been important to me. I’ve worked as a project manager and environmental educational expert in several projects and I’ve also accomplished national and international conferences. I’m currently an assistant in the IEC organizer team.

PÉTER PÓTH (HUNGARY)
"DEEP IN THE COMPUTER"
Head of Marketing and IT Coordinator

Peter is our Facebook and online marketing "guru" and IT specialist who devotes his time for online programs and campaigns in the field of integrally related programs. He helps entrepreneurs in the personal growth business to grow their business. He has a background of 3 years training at Integral Academy (Integral Counselor), International NLP Master and Ericksonian Hypnosis I-II. Creator of the Daily Inner Work online comunity reaching 2,000 subscribers in a month..

Earlier sales director of UPC Hungary Cable TV for 15 years; later the creator, director and owner of DolgozóNet Ltd. informatics company. Specialized in Facebook marketing, search engine optimization, marketing copywriting, re-marketing and other related topics.

http://jovobejaro.hu/

ANIKÓ VERÉB (HUNGARY)
"NUMBERS FROM THE TOP OF THE HEAD"
Financial Coordinator

Anikó is one of the financial personnel of Integral Academy. She has joined the team in April, 2019. She is responsible for keeping all numbers at check, calculating costs and prices, arranging payments, invoicing and communication with our accountants.

She has been working in finance for more than twenty years. In this time she has gathered experience working for Hungarian as well as foreign small and medium-sized enterprises in a variety of companies in different fields such as an architectural firm, a trading company and in the food industry. Before joining Integral Academy she was tasked with running the financial and administrative operations of the subsidiary of a Swedish company for eleven years.

PROJECT ORIENTED TEAM MEMBERS

One focus, professional delivery, working mostly around the conference

GABOR SEGESVARI (HUNGARY)
"THE SHUTTLE MAN"
Shuttle and Transportation Manager

Hi, I'm Segesvári Gábor, the organiser of the airport shuttle service. Although this title speaks for itself here is a few detailed possibilities you can reach out to me: Keeping in touch on your arrival time, information on the shuttle departure from the airport, information about the vehicle/drive of your shuttle, Notifies about your flight changes, Organising your departure from the hotel back to the airport, Feedback on the drivers / shuttle experience overall.

MÁRTON VISI (HUNGARY)
"THE VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR"
Volunteers Organizer Coordinator

Marton is our Volunteer coordinator. He has taken on the role of organizing our team of international volunteers at IEC since 2014.

He is a successful graduate of the Integral Academy, and has been mentoring and counselling clients ever since. He became a lecturer at the Academy, teaching Therapeutic communication.

He also works with self-development groups, using methods of bodywork and Psychodrama. He is a qualified yoga instructor.

Marton especially enjoys working with male support circles, and holds retreats in the nature, where self growth is guided and supported via direct personal experiences and challenges.

He is the Co-founder of www.integralmentoring.hu.

His background is in mechanical engineering, he has 12 years of experience in railway sector at Hungarian and Norwegian railways.

BIBI GRATZER (UNITED KINGDOM)
IEC 2021 Online Co-Anchor

Bibi is an embodied leadership coach, authentic relating and circling facilitator, systemic constellations facilitator, trained in transforming personal and collective grief-transformation, a student of, shadow work, shamanism, and archetypes with an MSc in Marine Ecology.

She creates workshops, courses, and immersions that support shifts in consciousness from ‘me’ to ‘we’, from seeing ourselves as separate to embodying interconnection. Her passion lies with freeing the creative potential of individuals and groups to create regenerative culture.

 Previously she has worked as a Consultant for organizations like IUCN and the Genius Group.

She is a facilitator on the Authentic Revolution Platform and a collaborative project manager for the CSC – the Center for Systemic Constellations, in London.

She has lived and worked in 5 countries – Austria, Egypt, Maldives, Bali and the United Kingdom, and currently resides in South Devon, UK.

www.bibigratzer.com 

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CHRIS ALDER (UK)
Facilitator Host Organiser

Chris has been involved in various ways with the Integral movement for 13 years now. He graduated as an Integral Master CoachTM with Integral Coaching Canada in 2011 and joined the faculty in 2015. He is also an Integral Zen priest and a student of Doshin Roshi for the past 7 years and is passionately dedicated to all forms of human growth and development, personal, professional, psychological and spiritual.

He lives in Edinburgh Scotland with his wife and daughter and runs his own coaching and consultancy firm Integral Leadership Development alongside some consultancy work for RISE Beyond, and Integrally inspired community of practitioners from around European.

In his previous incarnations in this life, he has travelled extensively around the world as a backpacker and hippy, worked as a private chef on superyachts and lived in the intentional spiritual community Findhorn in the north of Scotland for 3 years.

www.integralcoachingcanada.com

www.integral-coach.co.uk

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GABRIEL POWELL (USA)
Head of Hosting Team

Gabriel is an Integral Master Coach™ and facilitator for Coaches Rising online trainings. As an Integral practitioner, he is committed to his own personal growth and to making an impactful contribution to the realization of our full human potential. 

Prior to becoming a coach, Gabriel led an exciting career as an author, educator, and consultant in the publishing industry. He brings a lot of experience, rigor, and heart to our team.

www.coachesrising.com
www.gabrielpowellcoaching.com

MÁRK VÁGÓ (HUNGARY)
Head of Data Coordination

Mark has joined the team in 2019. As a serial entrepreneur, he works fanatically and precisely so naturally, he found his place in the team as head of data coordination. He makes sure that the literally thousands of  details, agreements, needs, on dozens of sheets and lists are all kept together and well handled.

He is also a trainee at Integral Academy. He’ll send more info about him soon to be posted here. 

JOHANNA LIBER (HUNGARY)
Social media coordinator

Johanna joined the IEC team in 2019 as the organizer of the Integral Art section at IEC 2020 Online Conference including the design of the exhibition in virtual space. 

She also helped the IEC team as a content creator for video editing and posts. From 2020 September she serves as the social media manager for IEC. Johanna studies art-theory and curator studies at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts and previously studied art history. 

She graduated and worked as a photographer too. She is dedicated to art, diversity of cultures, and interested in cultural theory.

NORBERT KOCSIS (HUNGARY)
Marketing

Norbert helps the team with planning and executing marketing campaigns. After graduating with a MA degree in Business, Norbert took a dive into the startup scene in Berlin for some years, then moved to Budapest and started advising clients in digital marketing.

He spent a gap year in New Zealand volunteering, traveling and journeying inward.

At the moment, he is leading a digital agency HiData that provides data analytics and marketing services for online businesses.

Norbert is currently finishing third year at the Integral Academy in Budapest, Hungary.

ATTILA MITLI  (HUNGARY)
“ATTILA THE HUN, book your Yurt”
IEC Budget Stay Coordinator and Main Stage Manager

Attila is known for his open, warm and calm style which connected with pulsing energy and vibe working throughout the conference, especially in group events. In his personal life, Attila is a Program manager for a large Nordic IT company where beside project activities he has started an Integral approach and building the organisation around that to become better in people management, to „see” each other, and work on day to day differences in a more understanding and retaining environment. As a fresh Integral Academy graduate and an integral counsellor he holds two roles for IEC. He is the budget stay coordinator for those who are looking for a cheaper option to stay during the conference in nearby home stay, and budget hotel options. The other role is the main stage coordination, that involves arranging stage layout for different presentations, and supporting the hosts, team anchors and other team members in their needs. Also coordinating the around-the-stage crew like the stage director, stage IT manager, sound and video team members. Finally getting presenters on time to stage, fill them in with lineup and getting the crowd back in the hall after breaks.

The other role is the main stage coordination, that involves arranging stage layout for different pesentations, and supporting the hosts, team achcors and other team members in their needs. Also coordinating the around-the-stage crew like the stage director, stage IT manager, sound and video team members. Finally  getting presenters on time to stage, fill them in with lineup and getting the crowd back in the hall after breaks. 

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