LIAN KASPER - Program maker / Facilitator / Trainer on the edge of conscious personal development, sustainable leadership and human-nature relations.

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Lian develops and organises opportunities for new experiences and reflection bridging self, society and nature. In her programs she creates an intimate space to address the essential questions of being human in this day and age. Her experience-based way of working allows people to find new possibilities within themselves for a meaningful life and contribution.

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'I believe that as human beings, we are never 'finished'. From this common ground I love to explore what it is to be human together, and what it may mean in this time in history specifically'. 

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Lian designed and facilitates the iWeek (since 2018) for st. Otherwise, a week-long immersive training in sustainable leadership and connection to self, the other and nature for students at Wageningen University. She also developed recurring series of events for i.e. Staatsbosbeheer, Breda University of applied sciences, Ecosystem Restoration Camps and Aeres Warmonderhof, and she is program designer for Naturecollege Foundation.

 

Lian has been trained as a life and career coach at Adriaan Hoogendijk Coaching en Training, and is facilitator of the Work that Reconnects in the Netherlands. She takes inspiration from Buddhist psychology and the nature-connected way of being that is modelled by several traditional cultures. Besides, she makes intensive use of her own experience on the path of being human, supported by Buddhist retreats and trajectories at Omega School of Life.

 

Lian is broadly engaged and academically trained. As a youth she participated in the United World College program in India (2004-2006) and studied liberal arts at Middlebury College in the US (2006-2010). She continued to obtain an Msc, in landscape architecture at Wageningen University with a thesis-project on 'community supported landscape regeneration', in which her interest in the intimate relationship between people and nature was shaped. 

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Want to know more? View the resources below or visit linkedin

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Kalapa is the Buddhist term for the smallest bundle of attributes from which reality is build. It refers to a worldview in which we are both incredibly small in the face of creation, as well as having a fundamentally valuable role in it. An attitude of simplicity in which depth, beauty and connection become tangible.

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