Bruce’s career has focused on empowering individuals, organizations, and communities to more effectively address social and environmental problems and catalyze meaningful systems change. His work in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SIE)—spanning local, state, and international contexts—includes co-founding social enterprises (one of them a national award...
Issac is the former BIGR cultural immersions and operations director. He also was a speaker and facilitator at the global healing conferences and has helped facilitate workshops in Sumatra, Bali, Singapore and the U.S., primarily with Ryan Feinstein. He currently is a business consultant and...
ZANZAN brings a powerful spiritual energy to anything he touches. As a global social entrepreneur, he has just created the first community-based tourism operation in his own village of Sudaji, Bali, creating a meeting space, and several “om” stays which allows visiting guests to be...
Janur is a leadership development consultant based in the US and Bali where he works with corporations, small businesses, 5-star hotel management and other organizations. His professional background includes working with teams and groups in diverse settings in America and Asia, and he often works...
Peter Wrycza, PhD is founder of Nirarta Living Awareness Retreat Center (one that Bali Institute often brings students and guests to), and of the International Academy for Transformational Coaching and Leadership. He has served as a trainer, consultant, and coach to organizations and individuals in...
Dewa Subawa has worked closely with the Bali Institute for more than 4 years, providing guidance and direction to enhance our cultural immersion experiences and unique Balinese collaborations. He often serves as a private guide for our program activities, including visits to ancient temples, early...
Agung Rai has served as an extremely valuable Bali Institute advisor since almost the inception of the Quest for Global Healing conferences in 2004. He is the founder and visionary of the award-winning ARMA Museum and Resort, creating a living museum that honors the arts...
Beratha assisted as the thoroughly enjoyable and enormously resourceful tour guide during the first BALI-UNTAMED! Tour offered by the Bali Institute in November 2009. He brings more than 30 years experience as a tour guide in Bali. He has a BA from Udayana State University...
Renee is Co-Director and Director of Research for the Powers of Place Initiative, a network of people, organizations and places brought together by the Fetzer Institute to catalyze a field of study and practice based on the premise that right relationship between people and the...
Hailing originally from northern Germany, Soenke Biermann has lived in the Northern Rivers region near Byron Bay, Australia, for the past thirteen years. He has a background in Critical Pedagogy, Indigenous and Cultural Studies, and is currently completing his dissertation on Unsettling Settler Universities at...