Team

Luea Ritter

Co-founder and Creative Steward

For most of human history, we've had practices for connecting with ourselves, each other, the natural world, and the subtle. Today, just when we need them most, many of these intuitive capacities remain dormant. My work weaves transformative change processes, creative practices, trauma and healing work, leadership and organizational development, community building, and earth-based wisdom traditions to unfold, amplify and maintain these inherent capacities.

I thrive within ambiguity and complexity and gravitate toward integral, participatory, and embodied practices.

Having grown up in the mountains and hills of Switzerland, where both sides of my family have lived for many generations, I am very much rooted in relationship to the land. Gardening and cultivation, awareness of the seasons, tending plants and animals, and a sense of place are essential to my vision of a more regenerative future. My work is imbued with a clear mission and fierce sense of care and protection for the Earth. 

I have studied a range of holistic and indigenous methods of healing, as well as Systemic Constellation, Cranio-Sacral Osteopathy, and trauma therapy. These studies have taken me to many different cultures and parts of the world and are crucial for my current work with collective “bodies.”  My focus is on illuminating the hidden parts of a system, tending to its imbalances, and mending its cracks. 

As a young adult, I was fascinated by archaeology, but ultimately I was drawn to studying art. I focused on dance, performance art, 3D installation and photography, which led me to become an art curator, creating spaces for transdisciplinary experiences. I initiated several arts festivals that integrated art, social science, and ecology, and for several years ran a transdisciplinary arts laboratory. 

My own facilitation and coaching practice has gravitated towards transdisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations. I have worked with organisations such as Windharvest International, GEN International, Akademie für Potential Entfaltung, and co-created the EU-Project SIRCle. Currently I work with Collaboratio Helvetica, an organization enhancing awareness based collaboration in Switzerland toward reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

In 2016, I co-founded the Nile Journeys, a transdisciplinary platform in and for the Nile Basin, aimed towards building a regenerative ecosystem and a culture of peace along the Nile and its eleven countries. I am enrolled in an alternative PhD program with Trans4m, where I am undertaking action research to develop methodologies for creating social fields of coherence. 

Dialogue and co-creational collaboration are central to my work and I am therefore very grateful to be on the faculty of the MBA program at Marlboro College and an active member of Collective Presencing, Collective Alchemy, Collective Healing, and Frozen Figs with Hot Chocolate. Collective Transitions received its first support from FOAM.

My life and work takes me to many places—Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, the Nile Basin, the United States—and takes place in many sectors—government, health, arts, education, civil society and social entrepreneurship—a diverse medley that has developed my high sensitivity for context-based cultural and social dynamics. 

Natalie von Tscharner

Project Manager

I was excited to join Collective Transitions as Project Manager in January 2025. Since 2013, I have worked in participatory processes, project management, and group facilitation, always aiming to create spaces where people can connect meaningfully and feel secure. My background in sociocultural animation, mediation, and coaching, along with recent training in trauma-informed practices, helps me ensure that every process respects and works with each individual’s capacity and resilience. I believe that a deeper self-awareness leads to more genuine and effective connections, forming the foundation for sustainable, collective change.

If you want to find out more about my other work, check out my personal website.

Mira Majewski

Coordinator of In-Person Programs

I’m grateful to be part of Collective Transitions as a facilitator and organizer of in-person training in Switzerland. After completing both the intro-training and the facilitator training at Collective Transitions.

Alongside this, I work in my own practice as a Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, supporting individuals as a somatic coach and trauma therapist. I also co-founded Waldhaus — a community and seminar house in switzerland— where I host events, organize gatherings, and help create a vibrant learning space for inner and collective transformation.

I’m deeply inspired by practices that expand our capacity to sense, stay present, and engage with complexity. This work is part of a larger calling for me: building bridges between embodied inner work and systemic change, and contributing to a regenerative culture.

Find out more about our project Waldhaus.

Ursina von Albertini

Board Member and Sounding Board

Questions of human transformation and development—both personal and societal—have always been at the center of my interest. That’s why, as an aspiring therapist, I chose the path of Gestalt therapy. Creative and experimental approaches within the therapeutic process resonated with me. Back then (1970), our non-dogmatic way of working was considered avant-garde. Later, I expanded my field of work to include organizational development.

I am deeply inspired and joyful about my more than 25 years of involvement with a small school in Senegal, West Africa. In 2001, I traveled to Senegal to dance. What emerged was a vibrant and powerful dance between our African partners at the school and friends in Basel.

Our guiding stars? How do we meet each other at eye level, given our vast differences in education and culture and the deeply ingrained legacy of colonial history? How do we cultivate a foundation for respectful and appreciative encounters? How do we build bridges and find new paths when strangeness and misunderstanding threaten to dominate? And to stay with the image: how do we keep rediscovering a lively, shared dance and celebrate together? Our collaboration has flourished for over 25 years. I see the richness of these experiences as fertile ground for the many challenges that lie ahead.

\In the meantime, I have become part of the grandmother generation and am delighted to support younger, creative, and courageous individuals in the upcoming transformations through Collective Transitions.

Kate Lewin

Communications Lead

I’ve worked for over a decade as a senior communications lead and campaigner for sustainability platforms, charities and human rights causes.

Alongside this, I am slowly training for a MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy where I’m developing a relational, developmental and anti-oppressive practice which honours our full intrapsychic and interpersonal understandings and relationships with people, our environments, and with systems. 

Joining Collective Transitions is joy therefore — I’m able to get nerdy about websites, designs and newsletters whilst also nurturing my personal interest in our human capacity and potential as individuals and collectives — exploring thoughts and practices that are very close to my own.