Rory Spowers is writer, campaigner and event curator, specialising in systems change and consciousness issues. His books include 'A Year in Green Tea and Tuk Tuks' (HarperElement), covering the creation of Samakanda, an ecological learning centre in south Sri Lanka, and 'Rising Tides', a history of ecological thought (Canongate), critically acclaimed by the UK Sunday Times, The Observer and a variety of magazines. Most recently, Rory was a Writer on Bruce Parry’s 2017 feature documentary Tawai, and is now Creative Director of the Tyringham Initiative, a world-class think-tank and incubator for new paradigm projects and consciousness studies.