Amsterdam based Lena Hartog is an organizer, campaigner, author and trainer with a passion for social movements, deep ecology and economic transformation. She recently published her book Wat jou te doen staat voor het klimaat: een actie-gids with Ambo-Anthos and she is currently working on a documentary about economic transformation. Previous projects she co-founded include the Slow Fashion Movement and sailing thinktank 'Sail to the COP'.

Since a very young age, Conform Cox (Cox Janssens) has been driven by exploring, learning, and creating. She wanted to know about everything in detail. To become a Homo Universales was in her head a good choice for a job. She never lost this eagerness to be a know-it-all: it made her work in different creatives fields, being an illustrator, animator, graphic designer, podcast maker, and singer-songwriter. Cox always tries to implement topics in her work that are close to her heart: the treatment of animals, our impact on climate change, and several social issues. Through in-depth visual translations, she shows different perspectives on several norms and hopes to spark curiosity.

Johan Aanen (40) holds an MA in Religious Studies from the Vrije Universiteit and an MA in Spiritual Care from Radboud University. In addition to his work, he is a volunteer spiritual caregiver for XR activists. He combines the presence approach with body-oriented work, ecological awareness and trauma theory. His professional interests include rituals, grief, climate emotions and outdoor therapy.

Merel Ouwehand is an (eco)humanistician and spiritual caregiver. She is trained to guide meaning and life questions, individually and in groups. The question that concerns her: how do we achieve a better world, for all living beings? To this end, she draws inspiration from big questions, philosophy, rituals and art. Merel works for the Humanistisch Verbond. A philosophical organisation committed to a just and sustainable world and a meaningful existence for all. The ecohumanism programme focuses specifically on how we can transform to a different relationship as humans with the earth. They do this through seasonal celebrations, Active Hope workshops and the How to start a movement project, among others. 

Sam’s curiosity for the different ways people give meaning to their lives brought him to the field of Religion Sciences. It was within this field, he started to understand how difficult it actually is to define religion. He noticed how the public had this old fashioned idea of what it entails, but he also noticed how self-proclaimed secular people were part of social groups that had certain rituals, even dogma’s, and he asked himself: isn’t this just a new form of religion? It fuelled the idea for this programme series wherein he wants to investigate the broadness of the spectrum of religion and spirituality and he hopes the series can serve as a mirror for people to reflect on their own spirituality. Sam is currently doing his Bachelor Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam.