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Visiting Teachers

Many of the world’s greatest thinkers and doers come to teach at Schumacher College. They come from all walks of life including business, academia and independent charitable organisations.

All are highly experienced in their specialist subject, and several regularly contribute to the Schumacher College programme.

Alongside the teachers, in order to create a supportive learning environment and a positive dialogue between teachers and participants, the courses are assisted by one of our highly skilled facilitators.

Anna is a professional animal communicator

Anna Breytenbach

Anna is a professional animal communicator who has received advanced training through the Assisi International Animal Institute in California, USA and has been practising for 12 years in South Africa, Europe and the USA with domestic and wild animals.

Bill McKibben

Bill is a well known environmental author and activist, and the founder of 350.org. When he’s not busy organizing, Bill is an active writer on the climate crisis and other environmental issues.

Bruce Lipton

Bruce is a pioneer in the new biology, and an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit.
Colin Campbell teaches traditional African medicine and Holistic Living

Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell is a practitioner of traditional African medicine, based in Cape Town, South Africa and the UK. He receives clients from all over the world, and facilitates international group processes relating to natural law, transformation, healing & personal power, sacred sites, and cross-cultural cosmology.

David Abram

Dr. David Abram, cultural ecologist and philosopher gone wild, is the award-winning author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World.

David Whyte

Poet David Whyte is the author of seven books of poetry and three books of prose. His life as a poet has created a readership and listenership in three normally mutually exclusive areas: the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry and the world of vocation, work and organisational leadership.

Drew Dellinger

Drew Dellinger, Ph.D., is an internationally sought-after speaker, poet, writer, and teacher who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher, and founder of Planetize the Movement.

Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California.

Iain McGilcrist

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer. Before he came to medicine, he was a literary scholar -- and his work on the brain is shaped by a deep questioning of the role of art and culture.

Jay Griffiths

Jay Griffiths is an award-winning British writer and author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, Anarchipelago and A Love Letter from a Stray Moon.

Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay MBE is a British author and broadcaster. He is the first poet to write for the London Olympics and received an MBE from the Queen for Services to Literature.
Margaret Wheatley teaches Sustainable Living and environmental education

Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley is a well-respected writer, speaker, and teacher for how we can accomplish our work, sustain our relationships, and willingly step forward to serve in this troubling time.

Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers, and is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.
Scilla Elworthy

Scilla Elworthy

Scilla Elworthy founded the Oxford Research Group in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, work which included a series of dialogues between Chinese, Russian and western nuclear scientists and military, for which she has been three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sister Jewel teaches right livelihood and mindfulnesss

Sister Jewel

Sister Jewel was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh ordained in 1999 and a Dharma Teacher in 2007. She is passionate about exploring the ways art, play and mindfulness practice intersect and sustain each other.

Vandana Shiva

Vandana is an Indian physicist, philosopher, feminist and tireless environmental activist.