OPEN CIRCLE CONSULTING - Key Persons

Kosha Anja Joubert

Job Titles:
  • CEO of the Pocket Project
  • CEO, International Facilitator, Trainer and Consultant
Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and healing personal, ancestral, and collective trauma. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an experienced facilitator, coach, and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of systems regeneration, intercultural collaboration, and trauma-informed leadership. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to transformational edgework ever since. She received the Gaia Award (2012) for transforming the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for her work in developing GEN into a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. In 2020, she took on the role of leading the Pocket Project, dedicating her work to building a global field of collective healing. Kosha works closely with Thomas Hübl in spreading awareness to reduce the disruptive effect of trauma on communities, organizations and global culture and help induce a shift from trauma-inducing to trauma-informed and trauma-integrating institutions and societies. Kosha served as CEO of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) from 2015-2020. GEN was set up in 1995 to catalyse communities in regenerating their natural, social, cultural, and economic environments. Kosha enhanced GEN's work on all continents and worked with policymakers across the globe to scale up ecovillage development programs. She presented at 12 UN Conferences and multiple other online and offline events. Previously, she held the position of President of GEN and ExecutiveDirector of GEN-Europe and was the driving force behind the emergence of GEN-Africa. Kosha co-founded ECOLISE, the European Network for Community-led on Climate Change and Sustainability, and Gaia Education. She co-authored the internationally applicable Ecovillage Design Education curriculum, which was endorsed by UNITAR, with courses run in over 50 countries since 2006. She has worked in 46 countries and facilitated 27 conferences & festivals over the course of the past 15 years. In addition, she hosted the Communities for Future Online Summit in 2019 and 2020, and now co-hosts the annual Collective Trauma Online Summit withThomas Hübl. Her current areas of inquiry include:

Robin Alfred

Job Titles:
  • Executive Coach, Trainer, Facilitator and Organisational Consultant
Robin worked as a trainer, educator and social work manager for 15 years in London, before moving to Scotland in 1995 where he founded the Findhorn Consultancy Service and then Open Circle Consulting. He has extensive experience of leading and developing groups and individuals across all sectors - corporate, public, and third sector. He loves to facilitate depth work, emergence and transformational fields. Robin is trained in a wide variety of approaches to personal and organisational development including: Appreciative Inquiry, the Frameworks for Change Coaching Process, Process Work, Spiral Dynamics and Tools for Corporate Transformation and the Timeless Wisdom taught by contemporary mystic, Thomas Hubl. His facilitation work draws on insights from these disciplines as well as Open Space, World Café and other innovative processes to maximize the group's collective intelligence. For more than 25 years, he has facilitated groups of all sizes, from 6 - 600, in all sectors. Robin has served as a registered facilitator for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and was part of the design and facilitation team for the 2013 UN Global Compact in New York. In addition he has designed and co-facilitated two major international conferences at Findhorn, Scotland - the New Story Summit (2014) and Climate Change and Consciousness (2019); and co-hosted 5 major Online Summits on Collective Trauma. Robin's clients include PwC, BP, Birmingham City Council, the National Health Service, ABN-AMRO Bank, RBS, Tasweeq Qatar, BAE Systems, Equal Exchange, UN, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace International, CDP, Weleda UK, FAI Farms, ARDO, Teach for All, Room to Read and The Wildlife Trusts. Robin also spent 15 years as a Senior Programme Director for Olivier Mythodrama for whom his clients included: Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, INSEAD, UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Daimler, McDonalds, UK Cabinet Office, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of Abu Dhabi, UK Office for Public Management, HM Revenue and Customs, London Institute of Education, and Bertelsmann University. Robin has participated in many local and national TV and radio interviews and phone-ins relating to criminal justice, the Findhorn Foundation, and matters relating to business and sustainability.