Thomas M. Hanna is Senior Research Associate with The Democracy Collaborative. Hanna’s areas of expertise include public ownership, nationalization, privatization, and banking, among others. He has published articles in popular and academic journals including The Nation, Truthout, The Neoprogressive, and The Good Society as well as providing research support for numerous articles that have appeared in such publications as The New York Times,Alternet, Dissent, The Review of Social Economy, Solutions, and The Ecologist. Hanna assisted on the Collaborative’s contribution to a report for the United Nations 2012 Rio+20 Conference and worked closely with Gar Alperovitz on his recent book What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. He received his M.A. and B.A. degrees in History from Virginia Commonwealth University.For more than 20 years Ina Meyer-Stoll and Achim Ecker have lived and worked at the intentional community of ZEGG (www.zegg.de). They lived many years in the forerunner community and have been deeply involved in the development of Forum and have trained and supervised groups at ZEGG and in Europe, South America and the USA. They are united by their deep care for people and for our planet.
From 2006 to 2008 they joined a profound spiritual training with Thomas Hübl to broaden their communication and training skills. They see themselves as constantly learning to be more authentic in their lives and in their teachings. Living in a community with a strong focus on love, partnership and friendship, gives them a special awareness in these issues. They have lived in a committed and polyamorous partnership for more than 14 years.
They are familiar with and use "Open Space" Technology, World Cafés, Integral Life Practice, Collective Intelligence, Deep Ecology and "The work that reconnects", "Non Violent Communication", Spiral Dynamics teachings, Appreciative Inquiry, Worldwork, Consensus Decision making, Dynamic governance, …
