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Dr Justine Afra Huxley is a writer, facilitator, spiritual ecologist and visionary. She co-founded the project Kincentric Leadership with Anna Kovasna, and leads workshops, retreats and trainings in many locations on how to align leadership and decision-making with the principle of kinship with all life. Justine is fascinated by many kinship-connected themes, including how we reclaim Earth-based spiritual practice; how we align our lives with natural cycles; and how we can enter into artistic collaboration with Earth and Her beings. For many years she was the CEO of St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, where she innovated programmes at the intersection of ecology, spirituality and peace-making. She has a Ph.D. in psychology and belongs to a Sufi community which has, over the last two decades, consistently oriented its focus towards reweaving our relationship with Earth and meeting the needs of our times. She has led meditation and dreamwork groups within that tradition for over twenty years. She is the author of Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change, a collection of stories about how the younger generations are reinventing spirituality and social action. Anna Kovasna is a systems thinker, creative convenor, and passionate weaver of collective resilience and kinship with all life. She co-founded Kincentric Leadership with Justine Huxley, and works with communities globally to catalyse systems change and regenerative practice rooted in animist and relational worldviews. Through her longstanding work with the Global Ecovillage Network, Anna connects pioneering projects exploring how local communities can adapt, respond, regenerate, and inspire amid deepening polycrisis. She is also a co-founder of the Living Systems Alliance, a cross-movement initiative accelerating more-than-human governance and living systems design at a bioregional scale. Anna's approach blends participatory research, systemic frameworks, community-building, and a curiosity-driven, playful spirit. She creates spaces and tools for cocreation, regenerative design, and transformative learning, strengthening resilience and solidarity within and between communities worldwide. With a background in social anthropology, Anna has taught, researched, and worked internationally while remaining deeply rooted in grassroots movements for change. After many transformative years as a member of the Findhorn Ecovillage, she now lives in a multispecies community on a vegetarian permaculture homestead in the Pyrenees. Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organiser of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.
""Reading this handbook, my heart sang again and again. cocreating with a Living, Intelligent Earth: A Handbook for Kincentric Leaders is a profound and practical guide to remembering who we are-kin among kin in a vast, intelligent web of life. Justine Huxley and Anna Kovasna offer a vision that is both ancient and urgently needed: leadership rooted in belonging, reverence, and reciprocity. Every page invites us to step into right relationship-with the Earth, with one another, and with ourselves. This is the world I want to live in. This is the future the Earth-and all our kin-are calling us to cocreate."" - Kaira Jewel Lingo (Author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption, co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation) ""We are in the throes of a global-scale polycrisis and heading deeper. We can navigate through and out of this condition. But it will require appropriate forms of leadership across all communities. More than anything, this leadership must be based on elementary reality: our kinship with all fellow life on Earth. This is the starting point of this remarkable handbook. It is an invaluable guide for anyone dedicated to navigating what is to come."" - Laurie Laybourn (Executive Director, Strategic Climate Risks Initiative) ""I have been through the Kincentric Leadership process myself and found it to be incredibly rich and thought provoking. This handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to lead, or indeed live, from a more kincentric standpoint. This guide is inspiring and educational in equal measure and I thoroughly recommend it. The world needs this."" - Rachel Corby (Author of Rewilding & The Art Of Plant Whispering and Rewild Yourself: Becoming Nature) ""This handbook and toolkit brings together so many aspects of what it means to lead from within the web of life. The principles and capacities are expressed beautifully and it's so valuable to have such a wide range of practices collated in one place and that cover both personal and collective ways of engaging. There will be something for everyone - to either find a way in, or to deepen their capacities. As this is the most important thing we can do at this time, this book is essential reading."" - Jenny Rouquette (Founder of Rooted Lifeways.)
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