EVA SCHONVELD
Eva Schonveld is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator, supporting power-with organisational development, decision-making and facilitation.
She has an arts background and worked for many years running an ‘Arts for Mental Health’ programme within Artlink, a disability arts organisation. She went on to co-found Scotland’s first Transition town and city, networked to inspire the Transition movement across Scotland, and was commissioned by the Scottish Government to establish and manage Transition Scotland Support.
More recently she co-founded Starter Culture, which is developing a range of projects to tackle the marginalisation of the inner dimension of our lives at different levels of scale.
She is also co-founder of Heartpolitics which exists to address the interconnected social and environmental threats that arise from dividing humans from the wider ecology, and from dividing our minds from our hearts, which is currently working on a fractal Grassroots to Global process which aims to connect open-hearted listening and creative culture re-design processes through citizen-led, power with assembly processes.
She also helped re-energise the Inner Enquiry group for the International Transition Hubs Network and since co-convening the international summit on Transformative Conflict, now leads their Conflict Transformation process.
Writing
Politics, Trauma and Empathy: breakthough to a politics of the heart - how have personal and cultural trauma impacted on our ability to make good collective decisions and what can we do about it?
Transforming Toxic Power Relations and Relational Politics - exploring the roots of our toxic political system and imagining what a new system might look like.
Just Doing My Job - where have our ideas about what is ‘professional’ come from and how do they impact on our ability to take meaningful action on climate change?
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma - how we can shift from a colonial mindset and reclaim our ability to make healthy collective decisions.
Ingredients for a decolonial politics – cooking up a future to delight in - learning from G2G’s work on bringing people together in ways that enable us to really listen to one another, think clearly and compassionately and take action to restore balance.
Opening the Black Box - how our unconscious and our colonised experience of power interact and what we can do about it.
Jin Jiyan Azadi - an exploration of the popular slogan