Freewheeling, the future-thinking festival's broad-reaching 3-day programme offers workshops, demonstrations, interactive dialogues, art, music and theatre. Focus is ‘beyond green’ and pushes the edge in such a way that almost everything presented will be something no one has seen before.

The parallel daily Children’s Programme (5 – 13 years) includes farm activities and nature walks, arts & crafts, African dance, growing veggies, storytelling, jungle gym, trampoline, swimming, & music.

Festival Dates: 19 - 22 March 2010

The Festival programme is dynamic and may be subject to late changes and surprises.

There are optional pre-breakfast activities, followed by workshops which run in parallel throughout the day, with sundown and evening live entertainment later.
You get to design your own day based on your own rhythm, specific interests and workshop selections. Fill your day full, or break it with swimming and walking, or stimulating conversation over a glass of something.

For a Day-by-Day Programme Plan click here to Download Programme
For a more detailed description of each event click here Festival Workshop Descriptions

Here's a summary of themes and offerings:

Green Issues, Climate Change & Sustainability

WILLIS The World I’d Like To Live In Someday: Peter Willis
Demystifying Climate Change: Eric Mair
Demystifying Renewables: Eric Mair
Stanford Village: Towards a Human Settlement in Balance with Nature: the Stanford Housing Development Co-operative (SHDC) & the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT)
A Dash of Irreverent Thought-play in Peeling the Climate Change Onion: Toni Bold
Superfood, and the Healing Power of Raw Food: Beryn & Peter Daniel
Eco-Logical Thinking - Becoming an Eco-Logical Human Being: David Parry-Davies
Villages in the Sun - Green Architecture in Community: Johan van Papendorp
Natural and Sustainable Building and Energy Design: Malcolm Worby
Influencing & Galvanising Commitment to Sustainability: Robert Zipplies & Denis Inskip
Science towards the Edge - Complexity, Holism & Systems Ecology: Galeo Saintz

Economics, Business & Leadership

What does it mean to be a South African Leader in the 21st Century? Dr Iqbal Surve
Green Money: Planting the Seeds of Wealth: Kiki Theo
The Spiritual Intelligence Shift: Applying the Principles of Transformation: Dr Colin Steyn
Exchange Money, Creative Money, Future Money - Their Threefold Dynamic in Our Economy: Martin Wigand
Freedom & Citizenship in South Africa: Max du Preez
Spiral Dynamics - Become a Spiral Wizard: Peter Willis & Diane Salters
Leading for Profound Change & Innovation: an Introduction to Theory U: Beth Jandernoa
Theory U workshop: an Experience of Presencing: Simon Bold
Active Citizens Together for South Africa – ACT4SA: Dr Louise van Rhyn & Lerato Mmutle
Welcome to Our World: Panel Presentation by Young Adults, hosted by Mark Gamble & Leigh Meinert
Intergeneration: A Council of Youth and Elders
Male/Female Brain: Exploring our Diversity: Mary Ovenstone
Enneagram & Instincts in Business: an experiential workshop: Barry Coltham
The Power of Play! Wiebke Nedel & Educo Africa

Land, Earth & Farming

Giving Voice to Walking the Earth: Johann Lanz & Galeo Saintz
Journeys in Search of the Whale - Rethinking our Place in a Changing World: Noel Ashton
All the World's Problems can be Solved in a Garden: Leigh Brown & Sean Spender
TreeTalk: Francois & Melissa Krige
Treeplanting – Offset Your Carbon Footprint Now!

Wellness & Personal Growth

PSI-3: Wellness through Psychosomatic, Psychosocial & Psychospiritual Integration: Dr Claudius van Wyk
Choices, Decisions & the Emerging Future: Vicky Coates
Thinking Environment: Does Listening Really Work? Maryse Barak
Integral Life Practice - Building Resilience For Our Time Through Cross Training: Dr Paddy Pampallis-Paisley
Finding Inner Peace When Living in Turbulent Times: Lynn McGregor
Sahaja Yoga: an Introduction: Ruth Mattison
Healing our Lives, Healing the Planet: Jeff Levin
Attunement: the Power of Presence in Living: Howard Goodman & Miriam Platt
The Power of Nonverbal Communication: Psychophonetics: Katherine Train
Eurythmy: a Real Alternative to the Gym! Christiane Wigand
Mapping Consciousness: Raphael Sher & Rosemary Clark
The Wise and the Restless - A Journey Workshop for Women in Midlife: Dr Gudrun Oberprieler

Creativity & Performing Arts

Drawing from Nature: Peter van Straten
Write Your Story! Merle Levin
Installation Art: Footprint, Handprint, Blueprint, Mindprint: Various Local Visual Artists
HA!Man Spontaneous Creativity Workshop: Francois the Ha!Man
Living the Questions Now - Walking withYour Story: Dr Dorian Haarhoff
Inner Reflection – a Journey in Clay: Elaine Millin
Land-Art: Andree Bonthuys & Leli Hoch
Chair Dancing: Jenny van Papendorp
Grow with your Garden: Helen van Zyl

Live Music, Theatre & Dance

RAW: A physical theatre piece: MovingArt Dancers Balu Nivison & Co; directed by Ina Wichterich
Becoming... beautiful, wild and free: Philippa Kabali-Kagwa
Tseleng: The Baggage of Bags: Written & performed by Mbali Kgosidintsi; directed by Sara Matchett, The Mothertongue Project
Live World Music: Wendy Oldfield & Steve Newman
All-in-One virtuoso guitarists: Errol Dyers, Hilton Schilder & Steve Newman
Dance grooves with DJ Fletcher
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Doccies to inspire and stimulate! Watch this space for thought-provoking documentary screenings…

Green Issues, Climate Change & Sustainability

Peter Willis

Peter is the Southern African Director of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry. In this role he runs The Prince of Wales’ Business and the Environment Programme in Africa, a programme that centres on seminars for senior executives on the implications of environmental and social trends for business leadership. Prior to working for Cambridge he was the South African Director of The Natural Step, an international non-profit organization teaching the principles of sustainability to companies and others. Peter moved to South Africa from the UK in 1993 with his wife, Diane and their son. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of TSiBA, the free business university in Cape Town, where he also mentors students. He is chairman of the board of Stanford Valley.

Eric Mair

Eric has a background in catering and is a qualified Butler. His interest in renewable energy began when he designed and installed an off-grid system for his house in Greece 15 years ago. Since then his interest and enthusiasm has grown to the point where he is now studying renewable energy systems at Stellenbosch University. He currently runs Capstone Renewables which offers consultancy services in the fields of energy planning and efficiency. He focuses on homes and small businesses, and works with architects and planners on new communities and buildings and retro-fitting or renovating efficiency measures into older buildings. Through Capstone Renewables he also offers educational and awareness talks, seminars and workshops on issues around reducing environmental/carbon footprints, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and future scenarios.

Toni Bold

For Toni, life is a dance, to dance is her medicine, and she enjoys sharing her passion with others through a variety of mediums. She has an academic background in exercise physiology and has experience in clinical research, lecturing, and as a director of a specialised wellness and sports testing centre. It was during this period of working as a sports scientist with top athletes that she found her core interest in the inter-relationship of the mind-body connection.  Subsequently, she founded a business in alternative therapies including floatation therapy, bodywork, sweat lodges, meditation, and corporate theatre, teambuilding, and group transformational processes. Toni is a Nia teacher, but has most recently developed Mandala Dance as a practise to weave the integration of body-mind-spirit within the self, community, and the environment. She sees the use of movement as an effective tool in personal integration, communal healing and spiritual practise.  Currently, her focus is being the best mother to her 5 year-old daughter, Lotus, and she also keeps busy as an associate with Incite Sustainability, a network of sustainability consultants who advise, strategise, and facilitate change with respect to environmental practices.  Most of all, Toni wishes that people dance the joy of life with her.

Peter & Beryn Daniel

Peter and Beryn are Raw Food Chefs. They present Raw Food Courses all around Southern Africa educating people about the healing power of raw and living foods as well as demonstrating how to prepare these foods in interesting and delicious ways. They are the authors of South Africa’s first Gourmet raw food recipe book called Rawlicious. Their living motto is: As close to nature as possible. “We aim to show people how to transition away from de-natured foods and re-balance with highly nutritional superfoods and natural foods. In this way we move joyfully towards the simple, fun and delicious way of divine nutrition and eating directly from your garden.” They also run Soaring Free Superfoods which imports highest quality organic superfoods from around the world, including Goji Berries, Raw Cacao(chocolate), Maca Powder and Hemp Seed Protein Powder to name but a few. Superfoods are foods that are exceptionally high in vitamins, minerals and overall nutritional and energetic value. Eating superfoods helps to re-mineralise the body and get one back on track with a healthy lifestyle.

David Parry-Davies

David worked with various UK based environmental organisations including Wildlife Aid and Friends of the Earth and established Eco-Logic Development (Pty) Ltd in London – providing a consultancy service to implement environmentally sustainable strategies within the corporate and local government sectors. In 1999 David returned South Africa, and launched a long term Project to raise public awareness and understanding of our current environmental challenges, empower people to adopt more sustainable lifestyle and working practices, and motivate them to re-evaluate their personal relationship with nature and their role within cosmology. These objectives are facilitated through The Enviropaedia Project in which he currently functions as editor, publisher, contributing author and expert tea maker.

Johan van Papendorp

Johan is a founding member and principle of OvP Associates, landscape architects and environmental planners. Their work has been given peer recognition through numerous awards of excellence, most recently for the BP Head Office at the V & A Waterfront, for water-wise landscaping. Johan has been responsible for the conceptualisation and implementation of many large projects, including St George’s Mall Pedestrianisation; Blaauwberg Conservation Area - Development and Management Plan; Visitor amenities development on Table Mountain, at Cape Point and Signal Hill; Historic restoration projects and public urban spaces. Johan acts as external examiner to the Department of Landscape Architecture at UCT and Pretoria University. He is a past-president of the Institute of Landscape Architects (SA) and serves on the Board of the SA Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession.

Malcolm Worby

Malcolm studied at Bristol Polytechnic in the UK. He has run his own international award-winning architectural design firm, ‘Malcolm Worby Designs’, for over 25 years specialising in natural, sustainable, and environmentally-friendly buildings. This includes passive and active solar heating and cooling, photovoltaic, wind turbines, grey water recycling, composting toilet systems, and rainwater harvesting. He has designed buildings in various parts of the world including throughout the USA, UK, South Africa, Mexico, and the Netherlands, and has worked on low income natural building projects in South Africa, Malawi, and the USA. As part of his desire to help others less fortunate in the world help themselves, Malcolm founded the ‘Homeless And Poor People’s Initiative’ (HAPPI) in 2006. HAPPI is a Non Profit Organisation (NPO) that advises, teaches, and trains poor and homeless people and communities in underdeveloped countries throughout the world the necessary skills to build affordable, natural, environmentally friendly, and energy efficient homes and community buildings for themselves, using locally available natural and sustainable materials.

Robert Zipplies

Robert collaborates with Denis Inskip in assisting organizations to develop a core ethos and organisational culture that embraces and embeds sustainable business practices. Robert consults to organisations wishing to deepen their environmental and social commitment. Previously he has worked in the steel industry, management consulting, Internet payment systems and life sciences venture capital. A growing concern about the dire state of our environment and society, led him to the field of sustainability. Robert is also the editor and principal author of the book Bending the curve – Your guide to climate change in South Africa. Visit: http://www.bendingthecurve.co.za

Denis Inskip

Denis collaborates with Robert Zipplies in assisting organizations to develop a core ethos and organisational culture that embraces and embeds sustainable business practices. Denis draws both on wealth of international and local consulting experience in organisational development and culture transformation and experience in senior leadership to assist organizations in aligning their efforts to realise their Visions. Typically a lot of the work Denis does helps galvanize a shared understanding of what people are aiming to achieve and absolute clarity about what day-to-day behaviours will help them achieve their aspirations. Visit: http://www.polish.co.za

Galeo Saintz

Galeo is a conservationist, creative thinker and mountain wilderness guide. He holds an MSc from Schumacher College in Holistic Science and is currently pursuing a PhD through Stellenbosch University in Systems Ecology. He is co-founder of two of South Africa's leading walking experiences, the Rim of Africa - www.rimofafrica.co.za and The Eden to Addo Great Corridor Hike  www.edentoaddo.co.za. He is a consultant in conservation and biodiversity investment through his company EarthFutures. Galeo is actively involved in various conservation related initiatives in the western Cape. He maintains that the extinction of experience is coupled to the extinction of species.  www.galeosaintz.com

Economics, Business & Leadership

Dr Iqbal Surve

Iqbal is a medical doctor, an influential African entrepreneur, a global business leader and a recognized philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Sekunjalo Group, an Investment Holding Conglomerate with investments in more than 70 Private and Public companies in Africa.  Sekunjalo was nominated by the WEF in 2007 as one of the 125 “New Champions” also called the Community of Global Growth Companies. Iqbal serves as Chairman of a number of NGO’s including Inyathelo -The South African Institute For Advancement, The Tallberg Foundation, and is a supporter and patron of The World Children’s Prize Foundation. These are strongly supportive of social entrepreneurs and young people in education, arts, sports and music. Iqbal has a strong commitment to education and academia and is Chairman of the UCT Graduate School of Business and a Governor of the UCT Foundation. He has been appointed to and participated in many prestigious Presidential, Ministerial and Public Institutions and Advisory boards. He is a Global leader, a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a Fellow of the HRH the Prince of Wales Business & Environment Programme as well as being appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Board of Governance on the Clinton Global Initiative.  He is a participant member of the World Economic Forum and is also Chairman of the Saudi South Africa Business Council. Iqbal's life has been profiled on television as an inspiration to other Africans and a case study about him and the Sekunjalo Group is taught at Harvard Business School, as an example of someone who has shown outstanding moral leadership in the face of numerous challenges.  Prior to founding the Sekunjalo Group in 1997, Iqbal was affectionately known as the “Struggle Doctor” as a result of his medical work with victims of apartheid and provision of medical care to a number of prominent South Africans after their release from Robben Island. In 1989, at UNESCO in Paris, he was honoured by Amnesty International for his medical and ethical work with victims of detention and torture.

Kiki Theo

Kiki is an unusual combination of successful business woman and skilled transformational facilitator. She combines a solid business background including over a decade in her own fund management company, with her lifelong study and practice of metaphysics. A catalyst for powerful personal transformation, Kiki specialises in wealth expansion. She is a writer, wife, mother, alchemist, and healer. Kiki is the author of Money Alchemy –“ a fresh take of money and all that surrounds it”, and Money Well (Penguin Books). She also offers transformational courses and one-on-one wealth alignments. www.moneyalchemy.com

Dr Colin Steyn

Colin specialised and obtained a first PhD in the domain of training and development of people within complex knowledge management systems - project management, technology and open innovation - and has always expressed a keen interest in the expression of creativity through art and innovation. He completed BCom Hons studies at UNISA, obtained an MBA degree, and has lectured and developed training material for several universities and business schools locally, in the UK and the USA. He has actively developed and facilitated workshops on enhancing creativity, innovation and integrated business systems. Colin demonstrates the ability to simulate teams in the corporate workplace and thereby develop unique communities of experts in diverse industries.

Martin Wigand

Martin holds a masters degree in Physical Science from the university of Heidelberg, Germany. His special interests include: Anthroposophy, Money and its influence on society, Human Development, Sustainable Living.He first became intrigued by the power and later concerned about the fundamentally flawed nature of our financial system. Over the last years he has given various lectures on the topic, also in conjunction with SANE, the South African Network on New Economics.

Max du Preez

Max is a former newspaper editor, television anchor and producer of television programmes such as Special Assignment. He has written seven books on South Africa's history and politics. He now works as a columnist, political analyst and documentary filmmaker. He is a Fellow of Fort Hare University,recipient of the 2009 Nat Nakasa Award from the SA National Editors Forum and was the 2006 Yale Global International Journalist.

Diane Salters

Diane is a freelance trainer, coach, facilitator and therapist. She has a background in education and community work prior to training in Transactional Analysis and Integrative Psychotherapy. She has many years of experience working with individuals, couples and communities. She is interested in the interface between the personal and the political, the individual and the communual and how we can develop healthy, sustaining societies and healthy, happy people.

Beth Jandernoa

As an organizational learning consultant, Beth divides her time between the U.S. and South Africa. The scope of her work includes leadership development, dialogue facilitation, participative change interventions using Theory U and personal development programs for women in leadership. Beth has over 25 years of experience working with business, healthcare, education, non-profit and government clients. Beth serves on the faculty of the Society for Organizational Learning teaching the Core Competencies and Foundations for Leadership course with Peter Senge and Presencing: Leading for Profound Innovation and Change with Otto Scharmer. Beth loves dancing, hiking, listening to contemporary jazz, laughing and enjoying the company of good friends.

Simon Bold

Simon is a development specialist, coach and facilitator who is deeply interested in the journey into self. Simon enjoys utilising the restorative power of nature in transformation and people development processes, whether it is through consulting into the business environment or working with people who are in bereavement or are dying. Simon founded Smiling Rock Organisational Development, a consultancy that offers facilitation, coaching, training and dialogue, as well as witnessing processes with respect to death and dying. He is also an associate with Connemara Consulting and has collaborated with their team since 2000 delivering a wide variety of people development initiatives into business. Simon’s primary aim is to facilitate an environment of open dialogue that engages people in an authentic and compassionate exploration of their being and the potential in their lives.

Dr Louise van Rhyn

Louise is a social entrepreneur. She is working to ‘strengthen the fabric of South African society’ and to fulfill her personal mission to enable more people to live with joy and possibility. She is founder and CEO of three organisations: Symphonia Leadership Development (an Organisational Development practice), Symphonia Consulting (offering capacity building for organisational change practitioners), and Symphonia for South Africa (an NPO focused on ‘strengthening the fabric of South African society’). From the latter part of the business, ACT4SA was born. Active Citizens for South Africa was started and convened by Louise. It was inspired by the Dinokeng Scenarios that mapped out 3 possible futures for South Africa: Walk Alone, Walk Behind or Walk Together. ACT4SA aims to walk together for the benefit of this country. ACT4SA is involved in education, health, security and nation-building.

LeRato Mmutle

LeRato is a young woman with a social conscience. Still at a tender age, she has been particularly touched by children and their well-being. Following her tertiary studies, her heart led her to Louise van Rhyn and Symphonia. Since joining the organisation, she has been assisting Louise and has been handling most of the Symphonia for South Africa initiatives, especially ACT4SA.

Mark Gamble

Mark is a Capetonian who has worked in the child and youth development field for the last 20 years. He has worked in environmental education, wilderness experience for at-risk; and residential and community based child and youth care. Mark is currently the COO for MaAfrika Tikkun, an organization committed to the growth of children in South Africa’s township communities. Mark is married with two children. For him it is simply about witnessing people’s incredible ability to live into their infinite human spirit.

Leigh Meinert

At age 15 Leigh started an NGO called Youth With Vision for “young people who want to make a difference”. Whilst studying, she ran her own Accelerated Learning Centre teaching learning and life skills, and since then has convened young people from around the world at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, worked as a strategic project facilitator in the corporate environment, facilitated the Brightest Young Minds conference for 4 years, coached local and international leaders and started her own career services company. In 2002 Leigh coordinated strategic projects for CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa’s first virtually free university. In 2004 she co-founded the Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA) in Cape Town, a private, not-for-profit higher education institution, and became managing director in 2006. Her work has been recognised by the President’s International Marketing Council who invited her to author the chapter on ‘Future Leaders’ for the book ‘South Africa: More Good News’ and the Mail & Guardian newspaper who nominated her as one of the country’s “Top 100 Young People” in 2006 and 2007.

Norman Faull

Born in nearby Riviersonderend, Norman is Professor of Business Administration at the Graduate School of Business, UCT. His academic passion is in the ‘Toyota Production System’ (TPS) particularly as it is applied to processes in health care. Additionally, he is managing director of the not-for-profit Lean Institute Africa,  promoting the TPS (also known as Lean) body of knowledge in the region. TPS is essentially only learned by doing, so he enjoys helping organizations of all kinds experiment with its tools, techniques and philosophy. He delights in his wife and their four children, enjoys rambling on mountains, and reading widely: science, religion, the occasional novel, history, and more.

Mary Ovenstone

Mary is an Executive and Leadership Coach and Mentor, and a counselor for individuals and couples. She has lectured and written widely on 21st Century relationship. Her current passion is in coupling the latest research on the neurological distinctions between the male and female brain with her clinical experience, highlighting the differences between how men and women think, process their feelings and relate.  Mary trained in psychotherapy in Canada and the U.S.A. alongside an executive career in corporate communications and television production in Toronto.  She returned to South Africa in 1999 and runs a counseling practice in Cape Town. She also has a diploma in corporate coaching, coaching business leaders and presenting corporate workshops and interventions. Mary is often on the radio and speaks regularly to public and corporate audiences—most recently as the keynote speaker for the Honouring Women’s events sponsored by SAPIA and BWA in Jo’burg and Cape Town, and to Khathaza: Women in the Construction Industry. She is the Gender Expert Columnist for SAPIA’s HR journal. Recently she wrote articles in Business Day and Psychologies and is quoted in the latest Women’s Health, in Ideas, Cape Town’s Child, Destiny, and soon in Fair Lady. She wrote a series of peer-reviewed articles on Midlife for the SA Medical Association’s CME Journal. She is currently writing a book on 21st Century Relationship.

Barry Coltham

Barry is a professional business leader, and coach. He has passion for leadership, process management, people development and the environment. Barry’s career path has included Chemistry & Oceanography, process engineering and business performance improvement. With a Masters degree in Business Leadership he has focused on the Science & Art of Human Performance Technology. He has a sincere belief in the extraordinary potential of people and strives to learn from the vital life force inherent in people and nature. Barry’s intrigue with the Enneagram commenced in 2003 and he qualified as an Enneagram teacher with the Enneagram Institute of USA in 2008. Barry is a proud father of 3 wonderful children. He is an ardent canoeist, dedicated yogi and a sometimes golfer.

Wiebke Nedel

Wiebke is General Manager of Educo Africa and  the Educo International Alliance Coordinator. Originally from Germany, Wiebke used to manage one of Educo Germany/Erlebnistage e.V.’s four schools and ran countless experiential outdoor courses all over Germany for school going youth, young adults and adults. Having lived in Canada, the US, New Zealand and South Africa and having traveled to many more countries her passion is connecting people across nations, building networks and creating synergies between people and organizations that are linked through their use of experiential outdoor and wilderness methodology, linked also through their use of the “magic” of nature in their work to transform and empower people. Since 2005 she now lives in Cape Town and continues to run leadership and personal development as well as capacity building courses for young people and adults. In a world that shares a growing awareness of its close interdependence with nature, Educo grows leaders worldwide who draw strength, compassion and empowerment from their deeply rooted connection to the natural environment, to themselves, to others and the world at large. Wiebke has a Masters degree in Education.

Land, Earth & Farming

Johann Lanz

Johann has a deep interest in land and our relationship to it, and in the integration of science and wisdom. He is a mountaineer, earth scientist, wilderness facilitator and father, has scaled peaks and pursued a passion for wild places and the meaning they hold for us. Johann’s profession is as a consulting Soil Scientist mainly in the wine industry, and the environmental field. Through an association with the Sustainability Institute, he is currently conducting research towards a PhD on soil health, aimed at promoting the adoption of ecologically based agricultural practices. He is also engaged in programmes using wilderness encounter for personal development. His overarching mission is to stress the importance of looking below the surface.

Galeo Saintz

See Bio above

Leigh Brown

Leigh is passionate about Permaculture, Organic Growing and growing Ecological Intelligence. She has been at the helm of SEED for the last nine years. SEED works to integrate Permaculture into teaching practice in under resourced schools and is building career pathing to develop “Post carbon” professionals. She has a degree in Journalism and a Diploma in Permaculture.

Noel Ashton

A lifetime in search of the whale has enabled Noel Ashton to speak of these mysterious ocean mammals in an original and unique voice. Through his conservation programme Oceans of Africa, which he runs with his wife Belinda, he combines his science, research, art, and environmental philosophy within inspirational conservation and awareness initiatives, including the IFAW Whale Walk along the seafront in Hermanus, the Benguela Dolphin Project on the west coast, and The Whale Show, shown daily in Hermanus. Exhibitions, such as ‘Windows on the Ocean’ include his highly accurate scientific illustrations, for which he has received international recognition. His paintings and sculptures are held in private collections locally and overseas. His academic training was in Environmental and Geographical Science (University of Cape Town). Noel consulted on the creation and characterization of the new killer whale for Warner Bros 'Free Willy 4'. His public lectures include 'Strandings and the Human Response', which looks at the science and human involvement in the recent Kommetjie stranding event. In 2009, Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched Noel’s Sacred Ocean initiative, an anti whaling campaign based around his iconic 3,5m sculpture permanently positioned in the foyer of the Two Oceans Aquarium, and includes the innovative Great Whaling Debate. www.noelashton.com

Francois & Melissa Krige

Melissa and Francois are the owners of Platbos, Africa’s Southernmost Forest, and have dedicated their lives to the conservation of this unusual indigenous forest inland from Gansbaai. Their Trees for Tomorrow Reforestation Project was born of the necessity to conserve and restore this ancient forest for the benefit of future generations and the biodiversity that it supports – from mosses, lichens, birds and bees, to bushbuck and honey badgers. Platbos Forest is an “off-the-grid” enterprise with the majority of nursery, office and household activities powered by renewable energy sources.

Francois began his arboriculture career in the forests of Germany, then learnt the specialist art of tree surgery and urban tree care in London. After return to Cape Town in 1991, he formed his own tree surgery business, Krige Tree Service. Francois is a consultant to the Planning Department of the City’s Environmental Management Branch, and his clients include Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, the South African National Parks Board, the City of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Estate and the Arderne Garden Arboretum.

Melissa is a horticulturist with a passion for working with healing plants – an interest that has blossomed since the family moved to the forest five years ago. With her particular focus on energy medicine, Melissa has created the African Tree Essences, a range of flower remedies that hold the unique vibrational blueprint of the 13 major tree species of the forest. She also offers Trees for Transformation workshops at Platbos Forest where individuals learn simple techniques for attuning to the trees and are thus able to experience their healing energies first hand. www.platbos.co.za

Wellness & Personal Growth

Dr Claudius van Wyk

NLP Master Practitioner, Claudius has worked in the field of PNI for fifteen years. He has designed and co-facilitated corporate wellness programs, conducted strategic facilitation for inter alia South African Dental Association, the Regional Psychosocial Initiative for HIV orphans, and pharmaceutical organizations, addressed various bodies such as the Psychological Association of South Africa. His doctoral thesis was on a revised epistemology for healthcare delivery embracing the role of subjective experience.

Vicky Coates

Vicky is dedicated to creating a climate for authentic transformation and the development of potent and effective role models in the world. Her work experience includes 14 years offering corporate training in Leadership, Personal Transformation and Customer Service; she currently runs her own consulting company, Capstone Consulting. She was also a partner at Renaissance Business Associates, a training consultancy in Cape Town and was a committed trainer for the RALI organisation a multicultural youth development organisation.

Maryse Barak

Maryse is a veteran corporate trainer and facilitator who deeply believes that everyone holds the answers to their own challenges. She specializes in the field of organisational learning, leadership, diversity and inclusion. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt and came to South Africa as a child. She graduated from UCT in 1969 with a psychology degree, then lived, studied and worked in Paris, London, the USA, Canada and Egypt. Maryse received her Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching from Middlesex University (UK), and is an accredited Thinking Environment Consultant with Time To Think, Inc. Her practice is primarily focused on Transformation and Leadership using the tools of Dialogue, Thinking Environment and experiential methods to create learning environments that foster personal and collective change.

Dr Paddy Pampallis Paisley

Paddy is an internationally accredited executive coach and supervisor of coaches. She is one of the first five coaches in the world to have received their professional doctorates in executive coaching and has worked in business (finance, retail, manufacturing), government, health and education sectors for 30 years. She is considered to be a leader in the field of coaching in South Africa. She is a founder member of COMENSA (SA’s professional body for coaches), co-director/founder and faculty head of The Coaching Centre, and part of the Global Coaching Community. Paddy has a deep interest in what creates shifts in individual and organisational consciousness (thinking and behaviour) and how this impacts on leadership, individually and collectively. Trained in integral leadership through the Integral Institute (USA) Paddy is considered as a specialist in the use of this approach and supports leaders to assess individual and organisational challenges, thus finding effective ways to develop strategic awareness, create a learning agenda and implement this newfound awareness directly in their work & life arenas which directly impacts the implementation of their strategic vision. Paddy finds huge joy when her clients are able to connect to their own authenticity and integrity, finding meaning and are able to take this into their life and place of work with ease and efficiency.

Lynn McGregor

Lynn believes that ‘self governance’ is the first step to living wisely and successfully, regardless of most circumstances. Central to this is building and cherishing one’s spiritual strength and being true to one’s self. She has spent many years studying ancient wisdoms and learning spiritual disciplines, including Native American teachings, studying under a Sufi/dervish master and spending time with Buddhist monks. It gives her great pleasure to share how some of these teachings can help us live more effective lives. She is also a trained a qualified psychologist and facilitator. She is internationally well know as a expert on the human side of corporate governance.

Ruth Mattison

Ruth has been actively involved in strategic planning and change management in government, business, community and the NGO sectors. Currently she is teaching Leadership and Self Development at TSiBA University and has also taught on the Training for Transformation programme, a diploma course in leadership skills for development workers in Africa. She is deeply interested in spiritual growth as a catalyst for personal change. Ruth has an MPhil (Futures Studies) from the University of Stellenbosch.

Jeff Levin

Jeff studied Architecture at the Technicon in Israel and at Oxford. As an architect, he specialized in environmentally friendly design and won prizes in Canada for his innovative work. He lectured across North America. Due to his interest in holistic and energy medicine, he took further degrees in Nutritional Science, Nutripathy and qualified as a Doctor of Natural Medicine (Canada). In the early 90’s he developed a system of vibrational healing and transformation entitled “Body Alignment Technique” now called Life Alignment which he teaches worldwide. His interest in electromagnetic protection has led him to develop devices called Vortex Cards. He consults to corporations on energetic and environmental alignment. He travels for approximately nine months a year lecturing and teaching around the world. Jeff’s interest is facilitating deep transformation at the personal level as well as global.

Howard Goodman

Howard has a great love for people, conscious living and the value of healthy community. Obtained a Degree in Psychology (BA UCT); PostGrad Diploma in Remedial Educational Psychology (Tavistock Clinic, London, UK). Professional experience includes teaching in the Comprehensive school system in London UK, Twin Valleys Correctional School for Adolescents (Ontario, Canada), Remedial teacher at various schools in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Howard’s further experience over the past thirty years includes mentoring, leadership development and adult spiritual education for the International Emissary Community based in Cape Town, Johannesburg and England. Business experience includes Director of fund raising and public liaison officer for Wesgro (Business Tourism for the Western Cape) and CEO of a software development company for 7 years.

Miriam Platt

Miriam is a practitioner and teacher of Attunement, and a master teacher of Reiki. An Attunement practitioner since 1980, having completed extensive training in the USA and Canada, she offers Attunement workshops and training in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Miriam is deeply committed to embodying the principles of these life-enhancing practices in her own life, as well as providing a public service in both Reiki and Attunement. Her respect for both systems is great, having experienced and witnessed the natural and profound manner in which healing, transformation and inner growth can occur. Miriam runs a practice and teaches from her home in Cape Town.

Katherine Train

Katherine is trained as a Pharmacist, Nutritionist and Psychophonetics Practitioner.  She runs a coaching and facilitation practice in Cape Town and teaches at Persephone Institute of Psychophonetics.  Her journey through various aspects of healthcare has been an exploration into living more sustainably in personal life, in relationship and in community while expressing more of one’s human and individual nature.  She has a passionate interest in movement as an art form and a means to deepening health and self knowledge.  Katherine is currently doing a research masters at University of Western Cape which aims to develop a training for healthcare practitioners that encourages resilience to compassion fatigue and burnout when working with people experiencing trauma from violence and HIV.

Christiane Wigand

Born in the fifties, 5 year Eurythmy Training, teaching in schools and performing in Germany, England and Switzerland, immigrated to SA in 1991, just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, in order to support the country’s education in working with Eurythmy in several schools, adult courses, training centres and nursery schools. After completing her Eurythmy Therapy training in 2006, she is now living and working in  Hermanus, teaching and giving movement therapy sessions. She would like to share this kind of movement therapy with the wider community, because it is uplifting spiritually, enriching one’s soul life and healing for the body – a real alternative to the gym!

Rosemary Clark

Rosemary’s quiet strength and an abundance of compassion embody the tools of the Thinking Environment. She is passionate about personal transformation and interested in working with people who have the courage and willingness to take full responsibility for their lives.

Raphael Sher

Raphael’s fifty years executive experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial enterprises inform his coaching practice. Co-Active Coaching, The Thinking Environment and the creative use of poetry and story enrich and enliven his work. He sees his clients as inherently intelligent, powerful and capable of change.

Dr Gudrun Oberprieler

Gudrun has a background and qualifications in languages and literature, adult education and educational technology, and more than 25 years experience in higher and adult education.  She now runs her own practice as a life & career coach, mentor and learning facilitator, and as an editor and writer. Gudrun’s approach to coaching is holistic and integral, drawing on Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, and based on the insights of Positive Psychology and of David Kolb’s Learning Theory. She loves to engage the energy of creativity and the healing power and wisdom of storytelling and narrative into the coaching process. Gudrun is engaged with the vision of integrating the coaching process into educational settings.  She offers a coaching and mentoring process to students in tertiary education, especially to postgraduate students.  Gudrun also creates and facilitates workshops in human development. Her special areas of interest are human life stages and the possibilities of new life choices that arise when we move through periods of profound transition and changing circumstances, particularly for young people moving into adulthood, and for women transitioning into midlife and elderhood.

Creativity & Performing Arts

Peter van Straten

Peter believes that he is human as a result of a dreadful administrative error. Not wishing to dwell on the negative however, he is determined – during this difficult time – to master two of humanity’s great inventions: painting and writing. He is a veteran of seventeen solo exhibitions, and lives in Cape Town.

Merle Levin

An author, public speaker and teacher, Merle runs writing workshops and retreats in Israel, Italy, Norway, Ireland and England. She has published fiction and non-fiction and has co-written scripts for several children’s shows and co-produced three CD’s of children’s stories and the children’s books. Her work has been read on CBC Radio. “Listenbear” is a book for traumatized children sponsored by a Norwegian Children’s Hospital. Her interest in the San Bushmen of the Kalahari has led her to write two books about her experiences with them and to attend United Nations sessions in New York and Geneva, as part of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa delegation. She assisted in the creation of the first genealogy database of the !Komeni San Clan, which was used in the successful land claim made on their behalf in 2002.

Joshua Miles

Joshua was born in Ceres in 1967. He attended Michaelis Art School at the University of Cape Town, where he was awarded The Michaelis Prize in his final year. He has exhibited his paintings and reduction woodcuts widely in South Africa. Joshua attributes his interest in printing to watching his relative, art historian and artist Elsa Miles, doing woodcuts when Joshua was a child, and later, to Cecil Skotnes who taught him the technical aspects of the medium at Michaelis. He lives and works in Baardskeerdersbos in the Overstrand.

Francois le Roux, HA!Man

As a performer all over the world, the HA!Man gets audiences on their feet with his spontaneous cello and original electronic accompaniments. Expect him to be ever fresh and confounding, with his special gift for facilitating the revival and fostering of innate creativity. He has worked and played with numerous public and private schools in SA, UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Korea; universities of the Free State, Rhodes, Sahmyook (Seoul), Soka (Los Angeles); corporate sessions with companies like LG Korea and Nashua Mobile SA; sessions at speciality institutions like Pollsmoor prison and Unika School for autistic children; inspiring talks for Mandela Rhodes scholars; and artist-in-residence programmes for the Niskayuna School District (USA, 2006) Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady (USA, 2008) and the Prince of Wales Business and Environment Programme (Cape Town, 2008).

In his own words: “I mostly work from a point close to zero, to challenge myself and others with allowing true creativity to take place in the moment, meaning that something of beauty, meaning, power, can come forth from seemingly unpromising and simple means. To trust, plunge and be open to surprises is encouraged. At the core it is like healthy food. You may not always crave it, but you need it.”

Dorian Haarhoff

Dorian is a writer, story-teller, mentor and speaker. Passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination, he believes in the power of stories to create new realities. To bring healing . To build our belonging. A former Professor of English (Namibia), Dorian has also taught in a Canadian Creative Writing Faculty. His workshops are based on his texts, The Writer’s Voice, A Workbook for Writer’s in Africa and The Halo and the Noose, The Power of Storytelling and Storylistening in Business Life  (co-authored).

Elaine Millin

Elaine is an artist and facilitator/trainer of Bridging Polarities through Art.  She has studied Waldorf and Montessori education which influences her work; acknowledging the child in everyone where art is a natural means of expression. Her training to facilitate a course in Personal Leadership through Art, has further enhanced this work - bringing change to individuals and groups. Her work is varied and rich bringing consciousness of inner process through the art facilitation. The art develops through a non-judgmental framework – clients are liberated to create and access soul qualities, themes and patterns in their lives. Elaine has experienced this most vividly in her own life journey and brings insight and enthusiasm into all her workshops, allowing the participants to access and shed light on their own lives. She works in a variety of mediums which best allow facilitation of the processes, and the invisible becomes visible. Her clients range from individuals, teacher trainees, groups and training groups.

Andrée Bonthuys

An art journey through drawing, sculpture, ceramics, painting and photography has come to earth in the form of eco sculpture and land art. Creating, using as negligible a carbon footprint as possible, is important. And the luxury and joy of creating in nature with nature has to be the greatest creative and spiritual high imaginable! Andrée currently lives on her tiny fynbos farm near the hamlet of Baardskeerdersbos and runs regular Land Art Workshops along with Leli Hoch.

Leli Hoch

Leli started her career as a land-artist after she met and was inspired by famous dutch land-artist herman de vries. She also works with messages, however her work is ephemeral. She creates it out there in nature and it stays there to decompose again. Every creation is a celebration of and a gift back to nature. If she really likes the outcome she takes photographs. Leli runs regular Land-Art Workshops along with Andree Bonthuys.

Jennifer van Papendorp

Jenny trained originally as a primary school teacher specialising in Drama in Education. She went on to do a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Theatre followed by Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Education. She has worked as a dancer, a teacher and a lecturer at all four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape and is currently employed as a Deputy Chief Education Specialist for Dance Studies and Dramatic Arts in the Western Cape Education Department. She has served as a national planner of the new curricula in Dance Studies, Arts and Culture, Maritime Economics and Nautical Science, has developed a range of learning and teaching resources and conducts teacher in-service training workshops.

Helen van Zyl

Helen van Zyl comes from a traditional farming background in Southern Ireland. She trained and worked in creative education for many years. Working as a market gardener and farmer for over 7 years she now gives workshops, titled “Grow With Your Garden” where she combines the practical craft of preparing food gardens with process inspired art. Through skilled and careful observation of natures processes coupled with inner imaginative involvement through art, a creative dialogue can emerge between the inner landscape of ones life and outer perception. Helen lives in Stellenbosch with her husband and three teenagers and is passionate about nature and the art of living.

Balu Nivison

Balu, the founder of MovingArt, has performed and choreographed over the past 25 years. Her interest in combining healing spiritual growth work and theatre led her to develop MovingArt which uses creativity and dance as a vehicle for expression. She leads workshops and her regular classes are mind body soul experience. She also has a clothing label called `Bindi` by Balu, which uses dance as inspiration and celebrates the uniqueness and beauty of every woman`s way.

Live Music, Theatre & Dance

Philippa Kabali-Kagwa

Philippa is a facilitator, coach, poet, storyteller and singer who uses creative process to facilitate personal and leadership processes.  She was born in Uganda, and has spent her life in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa.  She has used music, art and story in her work with organisations like Metropolitan, Johnson and Johnson and Nestle in teaching programmes at the Graduate School of Business, UCT; and with caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children in rural SA (as part of the Storywell team).  She also uses creative process in her coaching.  In 2007 she piloted her first Becoming .... retreat in Cape Town – using some of the creative tools that she has used on her own journey.  Philippa is a partner at Kessels and Smit, The Learning Company, SA.  She coaches and facilitates customised workshops and programmes that use the arts as the central methodology, for organisations and communities.  These workshops focus on organisational learning and leadership development.  Philippa lives in Cape Town with her husband and three children.

Wendy Oldfield

Wendy Oldfield is a name synonymous with South African music; she has won numerous awards in the music industry. She first made a name for herself on radio performing the hit 'This Boy' with rock outfit ‘The Sweatband’ in the early eighties. Her first solo album ‘Beautiful World’ set the wheels in motion for a succession of hits, including 'Real World', 'Acid Rain', 'Miracle' and 'Don't Stop Believing'. She then branched out into other areas of composition and arrangement, writing soundtracks for commercials, film and television. Wendy moved into World Music with her next album ‘Ruby’, produced by Thapelo Khomo and Leonal Bastos. She joined World Music group Mondetta about 10 years ago with Steve Newman – with whom she will be performing at Freewheeling 2010. Wendy performs regularly around South Africa and is in the process of recording an album in Rheenendal with her band from the Garden Route.

Steve Newman

Acoustic guitarist, Steve is a consummate instrumentalist who can uncannily pick out any tune you name. His work with Tananas, the Aquarian Quartet (with Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen and Greg Georgiades), Mondetta (with Gito Baloi and Wendy Oldfield), the duo with Tony Cox and his work as a soloist has brought him international recognition. Tananas has played festivals & concerts in Australia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, across Europe, in the US, as well as in neighbouring Mozambique, Namibia & Zimbabwe. If you have never seen a guitar guru in action, now is your chance!

Errol Dyers

Errol, acclaimed guitar maestro, is highly respected as a pioneer of what has today become known as Cape Jazz / Ghoema. Errol has performed, recorded and toured locally and internationally with many great artists such as the late Basil Coetzee and Winston Mankunku, Abdullah Ibrahim, Robbie Jansen & McCoy Mrubata. Errol’s music is inspired and influenced by the rhythms and melodies of Cape Town where he was born. He has a unique acoustic guitar style, echoing ancestral sounds that capture the musical tradition and guitar play of the century-old Cape indigenous and folk music.

Hilton Schilder

Hilton was born into the musical families of the Schilder’s and Africa’s, and soon developed a sound and a musical career of his own. In the 1980s he partnered with Mac McKenzie in The Genuines, and launched himself into the international jazz scene. Initiator and driving force behind the band Iconoclast, composer and regular member of Robbie Jansen’s Sons of Table Mountain, Hilton’s own debut album No Turning Back (2003) was nominated for the SAMA Jazz Contemporary Album award. Although Hilton is known for his skills as a pianist and composer, he plays a diverse range of instruments including Khoi mouth-bow, guitar, canter, piano, Navaho flute, and melodica.

Various festival choices are on offer - onsite or offsite - to suit your taste and pocket.

Onsite accommodation

•  Stanford Valley en suite guest rooms & cottages

•  BYO ‘bring-your-own-tent’ campsite

(Eco-green hot showers and toilet facilities provided for campers)

Onsite accommodation total cost for 3 nights:

Stanford Valley double/twin room en suite, per room   R3000 + VAT
BYO campsite, per adult (children no charge)   R200 + VAT

[Note: Twin-bedded Safari Tent option is no longer available]

Offsite accommodation

Guest establishments and B&Bs are also available within a 10km radius. Book directly with the establishment of your choice. Click here for a list including their Freewheeling Special Rates Offers: Accommodation in Stanford Area