Ruth Cross makes things happen. Her practice has developed from landscape performance and micro-choreography into coordinating projects which bring people together to talk, play, inspire and collaborate. She is an associate artist with Encounters Arts and Battersea Arts Centre and co-founder of The Eroles Project, an international network that explores inner work for outer action. Ruth founded Cross Collaborations in 2009, a collective who devise social actions and intimate live art performances which focus on voice, listening with compassion and connecting to the earth.

George is a practitioner of the Theatre of the Oppressed, writer, performance poet and natural farmer who has travelled extensively across Europe and Asia working with groups ranging from the homeless in London, subsistence farmers in India, victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, to recovering heroin addicts and street kids in Kuala Lumpur. As founder of the training collective Reboot The Roots they have a decade of experience as a facilitator and educator in fields ranging from TESOL and drama therapy to drug rehabilitation and conflict resolution. They qualified in their Certificate in Joker Training and Certificate in Rainbow of Desire whilst working with Cardboard Citizens in 2010.

Lindsay (she/her) helped launch the Ulex Project in 2017, a pan-European training centre which supports sustainable organising for systemic change. Prior to that she was involved in full-time climate activism for a couple of years with the Campaign Against Climate Change and Reclaim the Power.  As a facilitator, Lindsay’s work is underpinned by practice in Buddhist meditation for close to two decades, with training in both MBSR and MBCL, and she’s worked across a number of spheres including the NHS, to share Mindfulness and Compassion tools which prevent burn-out. She is passionate about how meditation practice can open up notions around identity, grief, the sacred and interspecies solidarity. 

Ed has been facilitating creative arts projects in education for the last 15 years in schools, community groups and residential courses. He co-founded Movingsounds developing innovative arts based education projects that address environmental and social issues. He is also a lead facilitator and trainer with Lifebeat UK running transformative residential camps with young people and runs trainings for PYE Global Partnership for Youth Empowerment internationally. He is a musician, artist and performer but also a carpenter and sailor, deeply passionate about the power of both creativity and nature connection to bring about positive change in this crazy world.