Dana Darwin
Founder of Platform One Foundation concept and Team facilitator.
Dana, originally from Canada, is now domiciled in NZ and is the Founder of Platform One Foundation Charitable Trust, an umbrella organisation which supports the development of the project. He is a core member of a NZ based global person-to-person network actively developing and implementing a bottom-up model of organisation for businesses and communities.
Dana is actively engaged with companies and business professionals delivering positive results in the NZ renewable energy sector including the Solar Association of NZ, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and Auckland Council. Dana has a very broad work experience and diverse skill-set ranging from strong practical and land management skills learnt while growing up and living in a completely off-grid, self-sufficient island community to business development, project management and facilitation skills. He truly understands the pitfalls and challenges when shaping a system that has to be robust and resilient in these changing times.
Passionate and enthusiastic, Dana is a committed person devoted to our natural environment, supporting youth (and people of all ages), sustainable Energy conversations of all kinds, and personal through to global conscious evolution,
With a visionary clarity towards the future, Dana offers his considerable skill set and network of aligned co creators to leading the development of bottom up village structures which are in alignment with human needs, and our natural and spiritual worlds.
Role(s): Trustee, renewable energy solutions, general chief cook and bottle washer
Email : dana@platformone.org.nz
Michael Fleck
Senior Editor and Consultant
Trained in communication arts (literature, drama, journalism), Michael is known as a “netweaver.” For over 40 years he has produced and promoted holistic community events. He has a Master of Arts degree in English Literature and Drama from San Francisco State University (1969), and has lectured in drama and literature at the University of Hawaii, and the University of Auckland. As a freelance journalist he conducted interviews and reviewed films and theatre for publications in Colorado, New Mexico, California and Hawaii,
He was the editor of Pathways Magazine in Washington, DC, 1980-81, and has edited manuscripts for writers in the USA and New Zealand. As Artistic Director of the Maui Community Theatre in the mid-70s, he wrote, produced and directed plays for Hawaii audiences.
Michael has been on the management teams of retreat and conference centres in Hawaii, California and New Zealand, facilitating work-study and artist-in-residence programs, poetry festivals and public events. In 1999 with NZ community visionaries he co-founded the Ecoversity network, and in 2002 he collaborated with author/speaker Gary Cook in forming the talented resource pool, Good Company Pacific.
Michael’s 30 years of event coordination, marketing and management experience include managing touring artist programmes for the Arts Council of New Zealand; producing major conferences on peace and the environment; and organising national and overseas tours for visiting authors, artists and musicians, including Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Rupert Sheldrake, Paul Horn, Elisabet Sahtouris, Hank Wesselman, Barry Brailsford, Dan Millman and Neale Donald Walsh.
Over the past decade he has shaped indigenous arts journeys in Hawaii, Rarotonga, and New Zealand, and has been on the management team of retreat and conference centres in Hawaii, California and New Zealand.
Michael loves event design, community netweaving, great theatre and film, visionary art, soulful music, conscious travel, and the adventure of co-evolving with Mother Gaia.
Vitor Crispim
Vitor Crispim is a young Latin-American passionate about promoting cultural and ecological change through environmental education, shamanic arts and storytelling.
He dedicates his time towards working with indigenous communities from South America and Aotearoa to make the cultural heritage of our people available to the youth and future generations.
Vitor specialises in seed saving, soil health, ecological restoration and nutrient dense food production. He is also a storyteller and cinematographer by trade, and is passionate about wholistic wellness and community building.
Vitor lives and works at the Kōanga Institute, a charitable trust dedicated to saving heritage seeds and developing regenerative systems. He currently manages all the food production gardens for his community, and supports the Institute as a consultant and mentor.
In early 2020 Vitor joined the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and through his work with the Kōanga Institute and EHF he has become the youngest person in NZ with a Global Impact Visa.