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Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli
President
Entrepreneur,
development consultant and spiritual bridgebuilder, he sees himself
today as an evolutant. But his life has been far beyond being a one way
street. Following his commercial education and seven years in
management positions of trading and production companies, Sesto
Castagnoli started his own production and trading company network.
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keen on unifying people and cultures, he created and ran several
development organizations and trading networks in West Africa in the
last two decades. It was during these years of cultural and continental
bridge building, that Sesto's deep longing for a world of peace,
economic equilibrium and spiritual unity evolved. The World Spirit
Forum (WSF) is the reflection of this vision. Sesto's passion for
realizing his vision is the driving force behind and within the World
Spirit Forum.
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| Peter Grieder
Member of the Board
Peter
Grieder was born 1928 into a Swiss family well known for its third
generation fashion house, over which he presided for thirty years.
Early in his youth, he became deeply fascinated with Eastern
philosophies. This eventually led him to travel extensively into the
hidden countries of the Himalayas. Finally, he became Curator of the
Tibetan Monastic Institute in Rikon, Switzerland. In addition to being
a regular lecturer at the C. G. Jung-Institute for Eastern wisdom
teachings, he was for many years a renowned guest speaker for Tibetan
Buddhisme at various universities in Europe. Peter Grieder and his wife
Marina Gschwind have six children, one of whom is a Tibetan foster son.
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| Reinhard Gschwandtner
Vicepresident
Human resources manager and social scientist. In the midst of a fast
moving and bright senior management career, Reinhard Gschwandtner
answered the call of his soul during a somehow unplanned sabbatical in
his mid forties. Joining the WSF World Spirt Forum he is taking
initiative in matching his organizational, management and coaching
talents with “singing his soul’s melody”. Being authentic and living a
life of integrity are fundamental not only to his daily life but to his
contribution to the WSF.
mailto:rgschwandtner@worldspiritforum.org
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Gabriele Castagnoli
WSF Core Team
is living in Switzerland since 2006. Eventhough
born in Elmshorn, Germany in 1965 she has
the Austrian citizenship. During her Life and Business Experience man and its
development potential came more and more into her private and professional
focus. Work not being separated from Life is most meaningful to her.
Inspiration for this
path for example were: Practising Naikan a japanese introspective method, a further
study of SocialCompetence or a
research project about the Process of Dialogue in Organisations.
Her know-how from Graphic Design to Marketing Communication she gained in
various institutions and trades. 2005 she started working as free Consultant
with „soulmarketing“. Gabriele Castagnoli is responsible
for the strategic alignment of the WSF World Spirit Forum together with her
husband Sesto G. Castagnoli. „I am grateful to be able to help shape such a
Project of Mankind like the WSF. Its a great challenge for me to atune my
personal evolution with regard to a collective Change of Consciousness.
mailto:communication@worldspiritforum.org
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WSF Core Team
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Stefan Keller
WSF Team
born 1963 in Zurich is skilled in expressive therapie, marketing and publishing.
He has been working in the fields of communication, education, culture,
economics and politics. The father of two sons aged 20 and 16
mainly acts as fascilitator for learning, editor, project planner and
politician now.
Based on
his holografic worldview, where different worlds simultaneously exist
on different bands of frequencies and dimensions, he sees his life task
in building bridges between this different realities.
He is
engaged in projects, which pursue cross-frontier and interdiciplinary
problems, for example as initiator of the Jewish Culture Weeks Aargau,
as VCS (Traffic Club Switzerland) President of the settlement Aargau, as co-initiator of the
series of lectures "Humans and Music" (University of Applied Sciences North West Switzerland) and as Member of the European Academy of Healing Arts.
Though the change of global consciuosness has been transformed yet on the ethereal sphere, Stefan Keller likes to contribute to the challenge of the material implementation at the WSF World
Spirit Forum.
mailto:skeller@worldspiritforum.org
|  | Liss Gehlen
WSF Team
born 1956 in Bern, acted her whole life
as mediator between cultures and their insight for each other, spreading her open world view.
After studies in linguistics, literature and ethnology in Switzerland,
Mexico and Germany, she has been assistant for latinamericanism at the University of St. Gallen
and later on an offical at the „Centre interégional de
perfectionnement" (CIP) in Tramelan. Out of the frenchspoken part of
Switzerland she cared for good contacts with the german spoken cantons.
In
Germany she remained faithfull to her subject too, she was commissary
of intercultural EU-Projects concerning migration and age and
collaborated a lot together with spanish counterparts.
Although not being an antroposoph, from 1994 on she has been acting for the antrophosophical publisher info3 .
There she takes care about the outer communication, like public relations and the organisation of events and congresses.
Liss Gehlen is citizen of Arosa (birthplace of her father) and Davos. Joyfully she applies her experiences so far to the WSF
World Spirit Forum, where she feels at home in every sense.
mailto:lgehlen@worldspiritforum.org
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| Michael Schneider
WSF Team
The 46 years old, studied Lutheran Theology in Hamburg
after the high school diploma. In his early twenties he was five years of
novice of a Christian brotherhood in Ratzeburg in Northern
Germany. At this time, he completed a
mason-apprenticeship, to which he connected an architecture-study. After jobs
in the construction-industry he shifted into various management jobs in
supply-industry, in which he was over fifteen years active with leading
functions either in Central Europe
as in Ireland
and the UK.
In 2005 he took over a seminar house in Lauenburg, close to Hamburg.
His efforts are focused on the issue of tension between spiritual values and professional
tasks. He is running a network of businesspeople, so called “province”, looking
for profound sources of human creativity.
For Michael Schneider
"the WSF World Spirit Forum is an inspirational platform for the mutual
contemplation, where we can feel out, what holds the world together at
heart. And therefore it is an enormous vital component for the reorientation of persons and society in the change taking place globally.“
mailto:mschneider@worldspiritforum.org
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Dr. Thomas Steininger
WSF Team
received his doctorate in Philosophy
from the University
of Vienna.
His thesis on consciousness and social evolution used Ken Wilber's integral
theory as its foundation. As a producer for Austrian National Public Radio, he
developed programming on consciousness and spiritual practices to bring
awareness of our evolutionary potential to a large popular audience. His
journalism career spans two decades, beginning as a contributing editor to
several German spiritual magazines and for the past four years as the managing
editor of What Is Enlightenment's German-language edition.
He leads the Frankfurt Center of
EnlightenNext, an international nonprofitorganisation supporting the work of
the American philosopher and spiritual visionary Andrew Cohen. In Connecticut
/ USA
he is teaching on the Graduate Institute in Milford
a Masters Degree course in conscious evolution.
The idea of the WSF intrigued Tom Steininger from the beginning: „The world needs this venue for a global spiritual dialogue“.
mailto:tsteininger@worldspiritforum.org
| | | | | | Mag. Elisabeth Walcher
WSF Team
mailto:ewalcher@worldspiritforum.org
| | | |  | Dr. Christoph Quarch
WSF Team
is doctor of Philosophy and chief-editor of the
church-related Publik-Forum Magazine. After a period of scientific work on
ancient greek philosophy he became editor of the monthly magazine “Evangelische
Kommentare” and afterwards Academic Director of the German Protestant
Kirchentag in Fulda.
There he runs since 2001 a Philosophic Café and a programme of courses and
workshop both on philosophy and spirituality. Furthermore he is initiator and
founder of the Spiritual Summer Academy in Hombroich and Ambassador of the
World Wisdom Council.
Within the last ten years Quarch published several
books on philosophical and spiritual items, some of them in collaboration with
Willigis Jäger. Actually he lives with his wife Christine Teufel and his two
children Immanuel and Martha in Fulda.
His Credo about the WSF: For me the
WSF World Spirit Forum is the place, where - paralell to the WEF World
Economic Forum - the spiritual forward thinkers can collaborate off the
records as well on a Spiritual Globalisation as on the Spiritual Climate Change.
mailto:cquarch@worldspiritforum.org
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