Hans van Willenswaard is a Dutch citizen who live with his wife Wallapa in Thailand. Hans grew up in a small town at the Nort Sea coast near Loverendale farm. The first bio-dynamic farm in the Netherlands. He was educated in the revolutionary 60 ies as a’cultural worker’. Hans was one of the co-founders of meditation center De kosmos in Amsterdam and co-intiated a ‘tea-house’ at Mozes & Aaron Church, turning it into a public space where he also enabled Vipassana meditation course. He worked in various youth centres in the country. After his training in rural development at Emerson College, U.K., he intiated an experimental development studies programme at Hogesschool Zeeland, now Zeeland University of Applied Sciences