People
We are a group of artists, facilitators, innovators, creative educators, cultural translators & change agents. View our biographies, or get in touch, we’d love to hear from you : )
Sophy Banks - Board Member
Sophy has been a psychotherapist, engineer, computer trainer and footballer in her time. She was part of the startup of Transition Town Totnes and co-founded Transition Training.
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Megan Beck - Creative Associate
Megan is an artist, designer and teacher initiating projects in the community to explore people’s relationship to place, the past and each other.
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Ruth Ben-Tovim - Creative Director
Ruth is the Creative Director of Encounters. As a professional artist and consultant, she has used the transformational power of the arts to work with thousands of people over the last 20 years.
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Shelley Castle - Creative Associate
Shelley creates walks, films, paintings, installations and 3D pieces, motivated by a desire to explore the natural world and our relationship to it through a variety of lenses and collaborators.
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Ruth Cross - Creative Associate
Ruth designs spaces & artworks to encourage diverse and active participation and creates performances where beautiful moments of collective sense-making take place.
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Natalia Eernstman - Creative Associate
Natalia is a researcher, educator and artist. She performs in and directs site-specific community theatre.
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James Engwell - Creative Associate
James is a designer and digital strategist, innovating in multimedia and social networking to help build audiences, engage users and develop digital legacy.
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Rebeh Skye Furze - Creative Associate
Social Ecology, Permaculture, and Holistic Science; love of food & organic growing. A particular interest in group process & facilitation, sense of place and our experience with the wild.
Liam Hurley - Creative Associate
Liam’s work is all about connection. He makes theatre with non-professional performers & writers - Often in unusual spaces & preferably with the young, the old (they have better stories : )
Anna Lodge – Communications
Committed to helping organisations deliver social media and communications to build dynamic and lasting relationships.
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Emilio Mula - Creative Associate
Emilio combines creative multimedia design, filmmaking and animation with the exciting worlds of permaculture and education for a sustainable future.
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Lucy Neal - Creative Associate
Lucy is an instigator, theatre maker & educator. Co-founder of LIFT, she is engaged with celebratory events which act as a catalyst for change. Co-author of MMM’s Sustainable Ability.
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Clare Parker - Executive Producer and Board Member
Clare believes in the transformational power of the arts and has over 20 years’ experience as a dance artist, teacher and producer.
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Jo Salter - Graphic Designer and Associate
Graphic designer, curator, teacher & artist working in a range of media. He has over 25 years experience of fine art practice.
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Jonny Sleeman - Web Master & Associate
Jonny is a digital strategist working with a range of online platforms to deliver engaging content.
Toni Spencer - Creative Associate
Toni works as a facilitator, educator, forager and artist, working with process, landscape and food to explore how we might meet the world more fully, in order to live more sustainably.
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Bryony Tilsley – Admin and Associate
Bryony studied writing at Dartington College of Arts and Falmouth University and continues to write for performance.
Ben Yeger - Creative Associate
Ben is the UK representative of Combatants for Peace and is a creative therapist, facilitator of personal and group process and creative dialogue, theatre director, film maker and change agent.