Board of directors
Chairman of the Danish Psychotherapist Association
Focus:
To make it visible that “medicine” can take many forms. Life, Death and Love are versions of Art. Nature does not care who we are and how we look. It is just there for us, and we can join it’s presence. Sustainable climate actions require care for Nature, Our selves, and Each other. We need conversations about the connection – and build bridges between Social change, Well-being and the care for Nature. It is humanity that we must save – to save Nature.
Leader of ASPA, Askov Foundation
Focus:
My focus is to a large extent to illuminate the importance and power of the community and social perspectives.
Nature is a strong guide in helping you to meet your self. Nature strengthens you and makes it easier and a natural to become part of the community.
Founder of People Like Us, Community and Diversity Expert
Focus:
My personal focus is to get the system and people to accept that people are different. I do this by creating different spaces, where we are more concerned with what each of us can contribute to the community, than what is in it for the individual. There is a need for all of us, and we are all equal important. My strong belief is that we all want to help creating change in the name of community and cohesion.
Development Consultant, Songwriter, Activist, Sociologist
Focus:
I want to help creating spaces and platforms for words, voices and expressions that otherwise have no space.
Space where it becomes possible to move towards healing of ourselves and of the beautiful world and nature we are all a part of.
Quality Manager, Philosopher & Literate
Focus:
Art, Mental Health, Open Dialogue.I work with expressions and language that do not diagnose or trap people in binary understandings as right or wrong. Expression that make us feel ourselves, feel each other – and the world we live in, so that we can also change it.
Embracing the Root is a strong, artistically experimental expression that I believe can do just that: Change the world.
Psychologist and Ph.D. in Psychiatry
Focus:
I am concerned with the relationship between Nature, Art, Psychology and Research as well as the effect and de-escalation of medicine.
Partners
Distinguished Professor of History of Consciousness at The University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Melllon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad served as the Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC. They are the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007), and well-known for their theory of agential realism. Barad’s research interests include quantum physics, science studies, critical post humanism, and multispecies studies.
PhD, professor emeritus at Aarhus University, Denmark. Sustainable management, social ecology, strongly preoccupied with the UN’s 17 global goals. Connected concerned with holistic thinking and general systems theory.
Director and Chief Executive Officer at The Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University Medical Campus. Daniel and the Lieber Institute have suppoted Embracing the Root Project from its very beginning and both Daniel as the Institute provide valuable knowledge and support the project with in-kind values as promotion and network.
Psychologist and scientist, Ph.d. in psychiatry, specialized in helping people come off psychiatric drugs and in drug-free, psychotherapeutic treatment of psyshopathology like depression, anxiety and psychosis. Anders is presenting how to heal from psychopathology without drugs, but with our own minds. “As trees and plants know how to share aid and healing in terms of survival, the human body and brain have similar and natural inherent ressources to heal”.
Licensed psychologist, independent consultant and supervisor. Several years of experience in politics as a member of the municipal council and in the Danish Parliament with a particular interest in social policy, psychiatry, nature and the environment. In the intersection of psychology, nature and politics, Trine is concerned with strengthening conditions for life and people’s connectedness to themselves, each other and nature, and has professional and political experience in creating well-being and change for and with people in relationships and organisations
PhD in natural psychology from the Department of Psychology, master’s in natural science and natural supervisor. Simon is director and founder of the company ViNatur. For many years, he has specialized in nature-based health promotion, well-being and regenerative management. Simon is a pioneer in the development and implementation of nature-based health promotion. Simon starts from the ecosystem and the living systems as the focal point for creating greater internal and external sustainability, as well as how we should organize ourselves and develop society.
Philosopher. Chairman of the Danish Society for Philosophical Practice. MA in Philosophy & Japanese with a specialization in Eastern philosophy (Daoism/Zen) and Phenomenology. External lecturer in Philosophy at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Currently employed in Psychiatric Research. The japanese term for self-awareness can literally be translated as “by-itself-awakening” and implies a state in which there is no objective boundary between self and nature. The mind, when seen this way, is the spontaneous flow of the cosmos, while our actions become the living, inter-connected expression of this unfolding. I cannot think of a better way of saying that we need to listen more closely to the wisdom of nature within ourselves or, to put it more simply – we need to embrace the root.”
Associate Professor. Section of Health Services Research, UCPH. Jeanette studies the interfaces between philosophy, the arts and medicine to examine humanistic and ethical aspects of illness, treatment and health.
Birgit Bundesen is a psychiatrist and literary scholar. She has founded the Danish Center for Arts and Mental health that develops art based interventions for psychiatry users. She is working as a senior clinical consultant at the Mental Health care Center Amager, where she also leads the research programme REWRITALIZE that investigate the effects on participatory art groups for people with mental health problems. She has a life long interest in consciousness and language. Her focus is on phenomenological accounts of the experience of psychopathology and creativity using ecological models, where the brain is part of an ecology of mind, body and world.
Neuro scientist, biologist. Having received her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry with aconcentration in STEM Education and Neuroscience in Research from The University of Texas at Dallas, Sofía Hidalgo continues to aspire to further her educationin the emerging field of Educational Neuroscience.
Professor in the field of Brain development and Psychiatric disorders & Group Leader at the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (UCPH). Over the years, Konstantin’s research has focused on addressing the key questions for our understanding of brain function “how such complex organ as the brain is build up during development?” and “what goes wrong in neurodevelopmental disorders?”. Konstantin is committed to communicating complex scientific research into accessible narratives and empowering the society to contribute to a greener planet.
Plant Biochemist with a MSc in Biotechnology (Indian Institute of Technology) and PhD in Synthetic Biology (University of Copenhagen) followed post-doctoral research work in proteins and plant infection biology. Through her research, Krutika got deeply interested in nature, consciousness, communities and the interconnectedness of various life forms. She is motivated to combine her artistic passion with scientific experience to drive a positive impact on climate change and society.
Consultant scientist and author, PhD in plant reproductive ecology, working at the interface of biodiversity research and human relationships with the rest of nature.
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