With an Organisation, Quality and Logistics diploma and having lived for 2 years in Angsbacka Kursgard, community, Sweden, where he served as an ESC the first year. He learned permaculture, event organisation and has been Improvement Team Leader and kitchen coordinator in festivals. His key competences lay on structuring the community daily life, project leading, gardening expertise and logistic flows. He is a project developer and the main gardener at the Catfarm.
With a background in IT and electronics, Ulysses moved towards visual arts and founded the Catfarm and the Adventures of Valparaiso community. He worked with over 1000 international youth since 2012 and has been leading and hosting workshops. For many of the projects, he does concept development and initiates new ideas. Ulysses has experience as a group leader and has managed many projects while teaching practical skills as a method. His key competences are leading, moving groups, mentoring, concept development, design, computing and practical skills. Strongly puts confidence in circular economy and the reuse of commodities.
Gabriel is an entrepreneur with great knowledge and diverse skills. His experience include human resources management, finance, management offices, projects and operations. His main values are related to ethics, justice and integrity. He worked and created some companies and also have performed voluntary activities in non-profit institutions. Gabriel has a degree in Design and Management, MBA in leadership and human development and Master’s in Human Resources Management.
This is Sivert, a curious soul from the frosty North who found his true passion for gardening in the soil at Catfarm. His background as a photographer with a diploma has influenced how he approaches gardening, infusing it with a keen eye for composition and detail. He sees his garden as a visual story unfolding, where each plant and feature contributes to a narrative of natural beauty and harmony. These days, you’ll find him knee-deep in dirt, overseeing his permaculture design project: the food forest in Le Cateau. At Catfarm, he has discovered a sense of purpose and community unlike anything he has ever known. So, if you ever find yourself in Le Cateau, come say hello to Sivert. He will be the one with dirt-stained hands and a heart full of gratitude for this wild, magical place.
Once upon a time, an 18 year old me travelled and worked in Australia – my perception of life shifted. I came back with an ocean of gratitude and an inflamed desire to explore different ways of living. I travelled along synchronicities. I studied in a pluridisciplinary bachelor & a master in International Negotiation. I vulnerably and honestly expressed all that I believe I was in the depth of different relationships. I worked in different companies, being in charge CSR and business development. I befriended my shame and fears. I volunteered in different associative projects. I studied coaching (ICF, NLP, RNCP). Boom, bam, bim boom boom – today I aim to be and inspire change through playfulness, regenerative actions, and care. I believe in community living, permaculture, and education through empowerment.
Ciska traveled to many different ecovillages in Europe learning about more regenerative ways of living. Driven by a passion to see how we can live more connected to the earth, our self and community again. Seeing how we can create system change and regenerative cultures starting on a small scale local level with this community, as well as connecting to the wider network of ecovillages. At Catfarm she has the role of project overview together with also getting her hands in the ground at the garden, learning about water retention and how to create more biodiversity. Facilitating social permaculture exercises to further work with the social dimension of sustainability. With all of this studying how we can create resilient communities that can move through polycrisis and collapse and also to have fun living together now.
Kadmo discovered Catfarm through the European Solidarity Corpse project (ESC) and found a place that hugged and showed them how powerful and beautiful community can be. Through this 9 month project, they got to explore so many different parts of the community, like building, food-processing, gardening, composting and explore my artistic self. After the ESC project ended, they decided to return, not only because of my love for the community but also because of how much more they can keep learning here every day!
Dara has spent the last 7 years traveling around the world visiting many communities, both new and old, learning about regenerative cultures in the process. After collecting many seeds, he is now planting them here in Catfarm. The focus of his activities have been regenerative agriculture, natural building, and herbalism. He also has a passion for teaching, and so anyone who wants to learn more about these topics can spend time with him and the rest of the team in the garden and the building site.
Barish is a permaculture design diploma student who is especially fascinated by community culture, non-violent communication, Authentic Relating and Cultural Emergence. He lived as a nomad for 9 years on different continents and settled now for the first time in a while at Catfarm. He loves meeting other people’s inner child to play and be silly, listen empathetically and compassionately to others and developed into a real tea nerd after practicing Gong Fu Tea. At the moment he is Care and Sparkling cat and Art Guardian.
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