Tom Hashimoto, LL.M., DPhil (Oxon), FHEA primarily specializes in financial economics, FinTech, and inclusive growth in the context of European integration. The multipurpose usage of artificial intelligence and blockchain led him to non-financial application of these technologies, including food security and rural development. He mentors and coaches executives and senior managers in small and medium sized companies who seek to integrate and take advantages from technology-driven knowledge management. He holds a doctorate (DPhil) in Geography from the University of Oxford. He is also a member of British Mensa.

Furkan Sorkuncuk – writes grants. Creates spaces for interruption, for imagining otherwise. Coordinates EU-funded projects at Volonteurope under Horizon Europe, CERV, and Erasmus+. Works on parameters for the Reykjavik Principles through the Council of Europe’s Civil Society Grant programme.
Background in law, Galatasaray University, and European studies, University of Regensburg. Trains, facilitates both online and in person. Designs learning environments for young people, professionals, youth workers, and activists. Uses futures, foresight, speculative design, and storytelling. Scans horizons. Reads weak signals.
Experienced in using online platforms and digital tools to co-create content, facilitate participatory sessions and build collaborative learning processes on active citizenship, just transition, climate change, water stewardship, connectedness to nature, and gender history.

European Climate Pact Ambassador for the European Commission in Belgium and Germany. Manages Volonteurope’s European Citizens’ Initiative for a Water-Smart and Resilient Europe. Originally from Turkey, lives in Germany, works in Brussels.

Adam Markuszewski – trainer (graduated from sTOP NGO Trainers School) and storyteller. Since 2015 member of the 501 Group, which focuses on the art of storytelling. He participated in workshops with many storytellers at the International Warsaw Storytelling Festival and performed at many events, including a storytelling night at the International Warsaw Storytelling Festival and the Radom Storytellers’ Festival. He is currently developing threads of connection between forest and storytelling and is a mentor within the Relational Ecotherapy Institute. Certified guide for forest therapy and forest baths. Vice president of the Polish Forest Baths and Forest Therapy Association. Guide in the Kampinos Forest. He subjects his forest work to periodic supervision. In 2022 and 2023, a member of the Chapter of the Warsaw Prize for Cultural Education. Conducted workshops for, among others: The Museum of Warsaw, museum in Jarosław, storytellers during the 5th Storytellers Tabor, Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, Greenpeace Poland, Folk University in Wolin, tutors and supervisors of theatre circles – in developing storytelling competences.

Magdalena Szabłowska – psychologist, trainer, coach. For 7 years, she has been working as a sales, business, and soft skills trainer. She graduated in psychology with a social specialization from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, acquired her coaching competencies at the Progress Trainers’ School, and completed an EMCC accredited Life and Business Coaching course at the EQA PRACTITIONER level under the guidance of practitioners from the Norman Benett Group. She is also a certified Plain Language Consultant at the University of Wrocław. In work, she combines psychological knowledge with coaching experience, as well as a constant focus on development. She believes that effective training is one that allows participants to learn by practice and creates space for reflection. In her daily life, she paints and travels whenever possible.

Topic 1: PhD Tom Hashimoto: ‘Bring Coherency to your Research Portfolio: Role of AI in Brainstorming”, Bring Coherency to your Research Portfolio Role of AI in Brainstorming (3

Topic 3: Adam Markuszewski, trainer of the NGO Trainers’ Association sTOP: “Storytelling in nature education” Opowieści – prezentacja ENG – P. Adam

Topic 4:  Magdalena Szabłowska, trainer, psychologist: “Effective Communication: from individual differences to practical everyday solutions” Effective Communication_ENG – M. Szabłowska