Tania Singer is the scientific head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. After doing her PhD in Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same institution, at the...
Thierry Janssen is a doctor of medicine, a surgeon who has become a psychotherapist (a function he prefers to call psycho-spiritual accompaniment). He is the author of several books devoted to a global approach to the human being, to the development of what is called...
Born in Strasbourg, Elizabeth Sombart began studying piano at the age of seven. She enters the conservatory of her hometown and gives her first public performance at eleven years old. After receiving the first national prize of piano and chamber music, she left France to...
Erik Truffaz discovered at the age of 8 years the pleasure of performing alongside his father who played the saxophone. At the age of 14, he electrified his trumpet and bought a wha wha pedal. In 1987, after performing in Montreux with the Group Brazilian...
Marc de Smedt, publisher, wrote a lot of essays about his experience of meditation for fifty years. Éloge du silence ; Une journée, Une vie ; Le Rire du Tigre (Albin Michel). Sagesses et Malices du zen (Livre de Poche) ; Petit cahier d'exercices de méditation au quotidien(Jouvence) and Exercices d'éveil pour petits chatons(Pocket)....
Steve Shehan is a universal and eclectic musician whose percussions were solicited by famous artists of the rock’n’roll, world, Anglo-Saxon and French song scenes. An atypical route for this composer born in the United States, of a native American Cherokee father and a French mother and...
Born on the 25th of January 1985, Pacôme Rupin grew up in the village of Savonnières, Touraine, France. Graduated from ESSEC Business School and the Social Entrepreneurship chair in 2009. He first worked as Chief of staff for Jean-Marc Borello, Executive Director of Groupe SOS, at...
Amandine Roche is a Human Right Specialist with almost 20 years of experience in conflict contexts across Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. She has worked with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and European Commission. Her professional experience is focused on human rights, democratization,...
Born in France in 1946, Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who left a career in cellular genetics to study Buddhism in the Himalayas over 45 years ago. He is an international best-selling author and a prominent speaker on the world stage, at the World...
Luc Petton is an atypical artist, who began his career with Martial Arts before turning to dance and choreography, training mainly in the United States and Germany. Since 2004, Luc explores a stage dialogue between birds set free and dancers. He created four incredible pieces from...