Fernanda Coatl

Fernanda Coatl is a Mexican artivist, facilitator, and somatic practitioner devoted to serving life through community, creativity, and regenerative practices. She co-founded Agilizadora de Procesos Colectivos and Cuerpos de Agua, initiatives that blend Agile methodologies, (eco)Somatics, and Play to foster collective intelligence and ecological stewardship.

Fernanda works with diverse communities across Mexico and the Wabanaki Territory, supporting autonomous projects, environmental protection, and social transformation. She is also a co-founder of Little River Commons, a forest sanctuary and community center dedicated to BIPOC-led mutual aid and gift-economy practices.

An aerial and Contact Improvisation dancer, Fernanda integrates movement, embodiment, and somatic practices into her facilitation, holding spaces of intimacy and presence for individuals and groups. She is currently documenting her experiences and processes in a book exploring the intersections of activism, community, and ecological connection.

Fernanda’s work is rooted in devotion, generosity, and deep connection to the human and non-human world, offering her gifts to cultivate sustainable, joyful, and regenerative ways of living together.

Paul Gruber

Paul Gruber is an artist, activist, and facilitator dedicated to weaving together presence, creativity, and community. With a background spanning river guiding, wildfire fighting, youth work, meditation, and outdoor education, Paul brings a unique blend of grounded experience and spiritual insight to the spaces he helps create.

Rooted in earth-based practices and inspired by the flow of ceremony and storytelling, Paul has cultivated a deep presence that nurtures harmony, laughter, and connection. His journey through grief, healing, and service has shaped him into a guide who integrates movement, ritual, and nature to support people in reconnecting with their source and stepping into their innate greatness.

Paul is currently developing earth-based movement and meditation practices, as well as co-creating ceremonial experiences that blend the sacred with play, music, and community. Whether tending a fire, guiding a group, or simply sharing laughter, he brings strength, creativity, and a calming presence to all he does

Gabo Azul

Gabo Azul is a transmasc singer songwriter and community builder dedicated to creating spaces where authenticity, creativity, and connection can flourish. Passionate about the simple yet profound act of existing, Gabo explores life through music, reflection, and meaningful relationships, continually learning and unlearning as part of his personal journey.

With experience in agile learning communities, Gabo has supported children and families in cultivating spaces of safety, empathy, and authentic expression. His work is grounded in communication, self-awareness, and the belief that success is deeply connected to gratitude.

Music has taken an essential part in his life; through it, he has been able to explore his identity and emotions, and build bridges to connect with others. He offers presence, creativity, and warmth to communities aspiring to live more freely and authentically.

Dominique Warfield

Dominique Warfield is a healing arts practitioner, educator, and cultural bridge-builder with over 15 years of international experience. Born in Japan to a Filipina mother and African American father, she has lived at the crossroads of cultures, carrying a deep sensitivity to identity, belonging, and transformation.

Her journey has led her through Bhakti Yoga, sweat lodge ceremonies, and the study of Thai Yoga Massage with master teachers around the world.

She has facilitated trainings, retreats, and trauma-informed workshops in more than 25 countries, weaving together somatic integration, soulful movement, and sacred sound. As a licensed massage therapist, NCBTMB CE provider, and yoga teacher, Dominique is also devoted to teaching Women’s Frame Drumming—an ancient ritual art form that helps women reclaim their voices, awaken creativity, and embody the deep feminine spirit.

Whether guiding touch, rhythm, or ritual, Dominique’s work invites people into wholeness, grounded in self-compassion, ancestral reverence, and connection to the universal flow of life. She is currently incubating Way of Touch—a holistic lifestyle and educational platform dedicated to teaching the art of embodied, healing touch as a sacred offering for communities worldwide.

Maria Gabriela Gutierrez

Maria Gabriela Gutierrez Pliego is an artist, educator, and community creator exploring the healing, expressive, and transformative power of body awareness and creativity. She integrates art, communication, and ritual to design collective learning spaces where grief, self-knowledge, and authentic expression can be recognized and shared.

Her work includes creating murals, leading movement and art-based experiences, and offering listening spaces that nurture connection and inner discovery. She has organized and managed educational projects, facilitated community houses such as Casa Naran, and documented creative processes through visual recording and infographics.

Rooted in nature and inspired by rivers, the sea, laughter, and community, Maria Gabriela brings tenderness, intuition, and artistry to all she does. She is currently developing a transgenerational learning community project grounded in self-knowledge, rituals, arts, and nature, with the aim of fostering collective growth and deeper human connection.

Natalia Zurita

Natalia Zurita is an architect, designer, and multidisciplinary artist exploring the identity of human spaces in harmony with nature. Her training, both academic and self-taught, includes artistic techniques as well as studies in biology and sciences, currently focusing on ethology and animal welfare as a key part of understanding and relating to non-human animals.

Beyond architecture, she engages with muralism, illustration, sculpture, crafts, music, writing, fashion, and ancestral culture, integrating art with environmental awareness and community-based processes. Her creative practice flows across different areas, enabling new ways of connecting people, space, and their surroundings.

A nature lover in constant reinvention, Natalia maintains a deep bond with water and the sea, sources of healing and personal transformation. Outdoor activities—such as diving, freediving, swimming, climbing, and biking—are essential to her practice and to exploring her environment.

Her vision is to create a platform in the Galápagos Islands linking creativity, nature, and personal development, connecting the local community with people worldwide who are also exploring identity and transformation. At her core, Natalia is committed to presence, freedom, and authenticity, living each moment as an opportunity to grow, contribute, and expand.

Ana Cristina Benavides

Ana Cristina is a 37-year-old connector, creator, and lifelong seeker of alternative ways to live in balance with the Earth. With a career spanning sustainable agroecological development, specialty coffee and cacao, circular economy, cultural affairs, and permaculture (PDC certified), she weaves together knowledge systems to make sustainability both practical and joyful. She is also a yoga teacher-in-training, a barista and cupping educator, and even a licensed helicopter pilot, embodying her adventurous and multidisciplinary spirit.

At her core, Ana Cristina is guided by love, truth, nature, and community.

She sees thriving in life not as a privilege but as a collective right, and her life’s work has been to open access to resources, information, and practices that help individuals and communities flourish. She has developed sustainable project-building systems, facilitated community workshops, and co-created local currencies—all grounded in justice, balance, and regeneration.

Through her project Tierra Diabla, Ana Cristina explores shadow and light, uncovering hidden truths and transforming them into pathways of healing. She dreams of incubating initiatives that connect farmers, communities, and cultures through rituals of learning, creativity, and shared solutions for regenerative living.

Daniel Kahn

Dan’s professional path has included serving as National Field Director for The Peace Alliance, where he helped establish dozens of peacebuilding advocacy teams across the U.S., as a restorative justice case manager, where he supported hundreds of young people in discovering their dreams through empathy-based practices, and as Executive Co- Director of the Florida Restorative Justice Association. He has worked alongside Indigenous communities around the world, advocating for cultural and ecological survival.

Daniel’s gifts span many realms—he is a carpenter, musician, actor, lyricist, creative cook, and playful athlete. More of a grazer than a gardener, he loves eating stuff that grows wild, and occasionally plants things that become edible. He has written and directed theater projects, including a musical production with people experiencing homelessness, blending creativity with social healing. As a mentor, uncle, sibling, and friend, he is valued for his listening, humor, and ability to bring people together.

Dan revels in the beauty of nature, honest communication, shared food and music, and the mysterious adventure of life. He comes to this incubator ready to expand his capacity for authentic connection, collaboration, and storytelling. He is laying the groundwork for a new phase of his life and for new levels of contribution, which will include deepening initiatives like BBFDreams (a regeneratively designed 75-acre conservation and food systems project) and The Fifth Geneva Convention (a global peacebuilding initiative blending music, theater, and collective action). He is calling within for a spirit of patience, exploration, appreciation, and discovery, and is deeply grateful (and mystified) at how life is unfolding.

P.S. feel free to call him "Daniel" at least sometimes, especially in Spanish, and you could add "el travieso."

Trey Scott

I have been reading Bill Plotkin’s Nature and the Human Soul lately. He points to stages of life and does a remarkable job of tracking and consolidating indigenous people’s mythology across the ages from child to elder. If my life was a movie we’d label it simply as, “Act 3.” Plotkin’s label: “The Artisan in the Wild Orchard.” That feels right. It’s a time to create, to collaborate and weave these forces with an alchemy towards sowing seeds - for trees that will likely bear fruit long after I am gone.

My profession is Filmmaker, Producer/Director/Writer. A consummate storyteller but that’s not what it requires…more accurately, I am a story listener. While raising my two daughters I taught high school and college students. Was a high school Principal and non-Profit Executive Director and a Board Chair. Leadership is a language I am constantly learning. It evolves and is dynamic, naturally, in order to meet “right now.” And at the moment this regenesis opportunity in community on the Galapagos is my “right now.” This, all with the fresh backdrop of a successful documentary launch on PBS this month and a pause in the construction of a “Dad Shack” on 10-acres on the Big Island of Hawaii that I share with my youngest daughter, her partner and their daughter (my grand-daughter) homesteading off-grid with a water catchment system at the end of a dirt road.

I thrive in collaboration, mornings in nature, ocean swims, ecstatic dance, and conversations over coffee. I am eager to learn, to share my filmmaking gifts, and to deepen my roots for an ongoing documentary project - a docu-series exploring intentional community over the ages.

Laura Nieto

Laura Nieto is an Indigenous Chicana movement artist, cultural organizer, healer, and liberation coach whose work sits at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and collective liberation. Rooted in Curanderismo from Mexico and Ifà from Nigeria, she is guided by Elders of these traditions in understanding right-relationship, reciprocity and good character. Laura is an experienced cultural strategist, including a decade with the LA County Department of Arts and Culture and three years as Director of Altar Programs for Día de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the largest event of its kind in the U.S. Most recently, she designed and managed the Cultural Worker Fellowship Program with meztli projects, supporting Indigenous artists and culture bearers in Los Angeles in-the-gift as an investment of nurturance to their lives and creative practices.

Presently, she works as a consultant supporting artists and organizations to explore integrity in their practices through heart, body, mind and spiritual alignment via programming, administration, strategy and communications. Her creative practice explores earth based wisdom traditions through immersive cultural programming that support nervous system regulation and ultimately collective visioning.

As a Liberation Coach, Laura supports individuals in accessing their deepest truths and gifts, stepping into greater sovereignty, to live in full reciprocity with all of life. A new member of the Halau Hula Moani‘a‘ala Anuhea, Laura continues to expand her spiritual and artistic practices with Elders, cultivating community rooted in care, presence, and ancestors. She comes to this incubator to deepen her healing gifts, to grow her capacity as a coherence holder, and to nurture a long-held dream: writing a book that distills her learnings into an accessible guide for living spiritual lives that affirm life, love, liberation and collective care.

Jasmine Jordaan

Jasmine Jordaan is a 54-year-old mother, partner, and lifelong seeker of truth and authentic connection. Born in Jerusalem and raised amid conflict, she discovered at an early age both resilience and a deep desire to create peace. That calling led her to law school, where she immersed herself in mediation and conflict navigation, and continues today in her passion for holding space, navigating tension, and fostering authentic dialogue in community.

Over the years, Jasmine has lived many lives—practicing law, creating her own real estate development projects, traveling widely to connect with diverse cultures, and helping to nurture communities of belonging. She has also cultivated a long, devoted partnership with her husband of 31 years and raised two sons, whom she considers her greatest success.

Her journey has also been one of deep personal transformation—learning to release the need to be right, cultivating self-regulation, and opening to the unknown with trust. Along the way she has become a yoga teacher, energy healer, and ceremony holder, guided always by intuition and an unwavering commitment to authenticity.

Jasmine is now drawn to focus her gifts on supporting intentional community. She feels called to step into the role of a coherence holder—someone who can help create safe space for authentic expression, guide groups through tension, and nurture collective growth. What energizes her most are authentic heart connections, deep communication, movement, nature, and the dance of navigating complexity with presence.

She comes to this incubator with an open heart, a grounded spirit, and a wealth of lived experience—ready to learn, to serve, and to help weave peace at the community level.

Barbara Eve Sibley

Eve is an unconventional mother, artist, and creative visionary raising her child with intuition and adventure. Having spent her life immersed in diverse cultures and subcultures, she has cultivated a wide breadth of perspective that fuels a lifelong pull toward re-indigenization, authentic expression, meditative practice, and—at the heart of it all—the pursuit of transcendent oneness that connects all life.

Her path has included launching a global social network for gardeners to exchange knowledge and seeds, designing and building innovative food gardens in Costa Rica, India, and the U.S., and leading creative campaigns for community resilience in Brooklyn and beyond. She has also created and performed music in bands, taught yoga, practiced overtone throat singing, and is developing The Girl with the Brown Tooth, an animated musical exploring themes of neurodivergence, belonging, and the invisible energetic currents that weave humanity into the natural world.

Eve describes her greatest successes as the moments when life’s flow “picks her up and purposes her”—whether raising her son off-grid guided by intuition, organizing relief efforts after a flood, or bringing neighbors together through music and collective action. What energizes her most is resonance: when her strong “inner howl” meets the world in shared vibration. She is now focused on deepening her discipline, energetic sovereignty, and follow-through, while offering her gifts of art, overtone throat singing, astrology, and movement as pathways into transcendence.

Johnny Cole

Johnny Cole a men’s work practitioner, founder of a men’s organization, and a cycle-breaking survivor of childhood domestic violence. His mission is to help build a world where men embody authenticity, emotional skill, love, kindness, and strength.

His path began with his own healing and was shaped by academic studies in gender, sexual violence prevention work on his university campus, and direct service at a domestic violence center during the #MeToo movement. At 23, he led his first men’s retreat, sparking transformation for himself and others and igniting a ripple effect that has since reached millions through his social media platforms.

Today, his work spans men’s healing retreats, virtual groups, and a high school mentorship program at his alma mater. He has collaborated with leading organizations such as Equimundo and A Call to Men and has learned from mentors like Ashanti Branch and Liz Plank. As a first-generation American with South African roots, he bridges cultures while challenging patriarchal scripts and shaping healthier models of masculinity.

Outside of his professional mission, Johnny is an avid mover and adventurer—thriving through surfing, jiu-jitsu, acrobatics, calisthenics, rugby, and time in nature. He strives to model the kind of man he needed when he was younger and the kind of man he knows the world needs today.

Clara Martinez Rubio

Clara Martinez Rubio (she/they) is a software engineer and lifelong athlete with a north star to build regenerative technology—aligning advanced data systems with ecological and cultural repair. They grew up spending long stretches in their grandmother’s 30-person village in northern Spain—an elder-led community where their way of living depends on rain, reciprocity, and shared knowledge. Inspired by that lineage of sustainable living, Clara strives to bridge ancestral wisdom and modern infrastructure to make climate risks visible and community responses actionable. Their current inquiry: how to build tools that make climate threats visible—and solutions irresistible—so communities can protect what they love with clarity, agency, and joy.

Beyond engineering, Clara is a community organizer who has raised funds for grassroots movements through creative upcycling projects, and a steadfast advocate for queer and gender-expansive liberation. They are passionate about building mutual aid networks, nurturing community, co-creating safer spaces, spending time enjoying and connecting with nature, and exploring new adventures.

Via Martinez

Via Martínez is a regenerative practitioner, facilitator, and community weaver dedicated to reawakening humanity’s natural place within Earth’s living systems. Born in one of Mexico’s most violent industrial cities, she transformed her early struggles into a lifelong commitment to ecological harmony, social permaculture, and human flourishing.

For more than two decades, Via has worked across diverse fields—from organic agriculture and social movement organizing to environmental education and community resilience. She has facilitated international gatherings, supported networks of bioconstruction in response to crisis, represented Mexico within the Global Ecovillage Network, and created regenerative spaces that bridge humans, plants, animals, and water cycles in dynamic collaboration.

Her work is deeply inspired by Ernst Götsch’s Tao of Life and rooted in a philosophy of radical compassion, presence, and joy. Whether dancing, planting water, or facilitating spaces for people to reconnect with the Earth, Via embodies a way of living that moves beyond survival into celebration, from scarcity into abundance.

She is now nurturing a project that builds a global network of people in dialogue with soil, plants, animals, and cycles—an alliance devoted to planetary health and human reconnection.

Jenifer Muir

Jenifer Muir is a progressive change leader working at the intersection of ecological sustainability and technological innovation. With over three decades of experience spanning corporate leadership, community-building, and regenerative design, she is passionate about creating human-centered systems that harmonize with the planet in this new era of artificial intelligence.

Formerly with Google, Jenifer chose to step away from corporate constraints to align her expertise with purpose-driven change. She is now the founder of Muir Global Holdings, LLC, a venture advancing net-zero AI data centers, people-focused healthcare technology, longevity resources, and innovative education models.

A lifelong practitioner of meditation, yoga, and nature-based living, Jenifer grounds her work in resilience, empathy, and vision. From her early immersion in Findhorn’s intentional community to her current role as a hub for family, friends, and colleagues, she has consistently woven networks of trust and collaboration.

Jenifer’s life’s work is guided by a simple yet profound truth: humanity has both the responsibility and the power to design resilient, thriving communities that shape a just and sustainable future.