New World Voices | Changing The World One Impossible Dream At A Time

Helping people move through change more effortlessly is what Pere is about. In this inspiring interview, discover how he’s helping people connect with their true selves and repattern their lives to be based on having more personal freedom. Pere Merced is the founder of Fractal Change and has over 17 years of experience working with plant medicine including Ayahuasca and San Pedro. Pere is driven to help others grow and change for the better and since 2013, has created and led workshops and various coaching programs for organizations and individuals throughout Shanghai, Beijing, and Barcelona including the Amazonian Emotional Process, the Emotional Breathing Process, and Ecstatic Dance. Pere is an ICC Certified Master Coach and holds a Master’s degree in Management and Marketing. Before devoting his work full-time to Fractal Change, Pere worked as an Overseas Business Development Manager in a Chinese corporation and previously served as an Executive Director and Overseas Business Manager in a consulting company with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Spain.

“Do your best no matter what" is what Mr. Lutz taught me and thousands of other students he helped over a twenty-plus year period. In this interview, Ken and I walk down memory lane and share how his approach to inspiring his students through self-leadership and collaboration, had a positive influence on many of our lives. Kenneth Lutz, retired high school music teacher, is active in both theatre and music. He plays clarinet in the East Winds Symphonic Band and the Edgewood Symphony Orchestra and takes on many acting roles in various theater productions such as George Spelvin in The Actor’s Nightmare with Proudly Presents Productions, Weller in Grand Dream Productions’ The Gin Game, Charles Thomson in 1776 with Artscape, Dr. Dorn in Wooden Rocket's The Seagull, Pastor James in The Gospel Singer with Pittsburgh Lab Project, and Lee in Better Late with South Park Theatre.

Every year more than 10 million Chinese teenagers battle their way to higher education. They are overwhelmed and stressed by school, activities, and exams and therefore feel unmotivated, and confused about their future. To address this problem, Ann He founded The New Project, an educational platform for Chinese youth and teenagers to gain support and encouragement to follow their dreams and make them come true. China is rapidly changing and so are her people. Ann is leading this new generation of youth to value their feelings, go after their dreams, and express themselves confident enough to go out there and get it. She is a member of CogSci/Society for Research in Child Development/ Cognitive Development Society. She has a great passion to empower China’s teenagers with inspiration, motivation, and emotional support. Learn how her personal journey has made her an important voice in shaping China’s exciting future. www.TheNewProject.co/en

According to Lorna, the future success of education will stem from our ability to integrate more social and emotional skills into our learning development. Get inspired by her motivation to transform education from the ground up with a loving and compassionate mindful approach. Lorna Jutton (Luna), is the founder and facilitator of Luna Mindfulness. She teaches mindfulness to students in schools as well as running parent and teacher training workshops helping them to find peace, clarity and focus. Lorna is a qualified (PGCE) and experienced teacher from the UK. She applies mindfulness to  help children pay attention, develop awareness, and improve their emotional management. Lorna is a certified mindfulness teacher by Youth Mindfulness in the UK and is currently pursuing a master's in Character Education from the University of Birmingham. In formal practice of mindfulness, she has completed a 10-day vipassana meditation retreat and she enjoys walking the dog, cooking, eating, and reading as part of her informal practice.

Hossein’s philosophy on life is to live in the moment, be joyful with what you have, go beyond the boundaries of what you think, and learn as much as you can from others who are different from you. Listen in on how the arts and being a global citizen has shaped his life and made him into a cultural ambassador of the world. Hossein Bordbar was born in 1983 in Shiraz, Iran. As a lover of culture and arts, Hossein is CEO of Borbar, “The Belt & Road'' Art Foundation. He is also a gifted carpet designer and holds a bachelor’s degree of English and French Literature with a Master’s in History and Tourism from Tehran University. As a keynote speaker and lecturer, he has participated in many cultural projects focused on Persian Arts and has held exhibitions all over the world, including places like Switzerland, France, Iceland, Thailand, and the UK.  One of his current projects is bringing about cultural exchanges between China and Iran.