Christopher Clouder FRSA is a freelance speaker, writer and consultant on questions of childhood, innovation in education, cultural evolution and creativity. He was the founding director of the Botin Platform for Innovation in Education and has led international research into Social Emotional Education and Creativity and the Arts. He is a co-founder of the Alliance for Childhood, a member of the Learning for Well-being Community and the International Forum for Steiner Education. From 1991 to 2012 he was the founding CEO of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education.

Social worker and doctor of psychology. Professor in the psychology department at the University of Buenos Aires. Areas of research: Emotional Intelligence Assessment in applied contexts, education, forensics, health organizations, rural setting, etc.. Resilience

Study Medicine, Psychology, Sociology and Human Biology at the University of Vienna.

Doctor of University, Graduate Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Doctor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Medicine. Degree in Psychotherapy. Mediatrix school. Currently and since 2001 directs ARGE Erziehungsberatung und Fortbildung GmbH, a training, consulting and research oriented youth and family. www.fitforkids.at.

Prof. Eliezer Yariv is a senior school psychologist. He earned his BA and MA degrees in psychology at the University of Haifa. He studied for Ph.D. degree in education at the University of Leicester UK (2002). Prof. Yariv is a senior lecturer at Gordon College of Education, Haifa. His expertise focus on teachers' professional difficulties and classroom management and school discipline His four books: 'Discipline and Dialogue' (1996); 'Silence in Class' (1999), 'I've Got Eyes in the Back of my Head (2010) and 'classroom Management' (2017) are taught in educational departments in Israeli colleges and universities. Eliezer leads workshops and academic courses for students and in-service teachers on classroom management.

Johannes Finne is a PhD-candidate at VID Specialized University (Norway), and simultaneously leading the post-graduate education in Social Competence. Currently he is doing a PhD-project evaluating Social Perception Training (SPT) in a whole class setting, in primary and secondary schools. In addition, he is working at the national Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioral research at the University of Stavanger.

He has several years’ practical experience from treating violent and aggressive youth and families using ART and Family ART (Family TIES), and is the co-author of the new Scandinavian version of Aggression Replacement Training named AART (adapted ART).

Peter van Alphen started his career as a music teacher, followed by 9 years of primary teaching at a Waldorf School in Cape Town, South Africa.  During the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Peter pioneered a teacher enrichment program in disadvantaged communities around Cape Town.  This led to the establishment of the Centre for Creative Education in 1993, a Waldorf teacher training centre.   From 1997 Peter, together with Ann Sharfman, began part-time teacher education programmes in East Africa.  As Pedagogical Leader at the Centre for Creative Education, Peter is responsible for lecturing and the development of teacher education programmes.  Blog: www.petervanalphen.wordpress.com