Luea Ritter is a transformative process steward, systemic coach and action researcher whose work weaves together innovation, leadership processes, transformative change and healing to support collective transformation. She brings over two decades of international and cross-cultural experience in personal, organisational, and cultural development, working across multiple sectors and scales to help groups and organisations co-create the conditions for resilient and regenerative approaches.

As co-founder and steward of Collective Tranistions, Luea cultivates spaces for systemic awareness and collective capacity building, fostering conditions to help groups navigate complexity and maintain transformational shifts. She is also a vital driver of the World Ethic Forum where she stewards the Firekeeper Circle process, and the participatory action research, as well as the Youth Negotiator Academy where she supports Youth Negotiators with systems-awareness, mental health and community building for the three UN Rio Conventions and their respective negotiations processes. As a co-founder and chair of Nile Journeys she helps bridge transboundary dialogue and regenerative collaboration in the Nile Basin.

Across all her work, including PhD research and clients such as the World Future Council and the Global Ecovillage Network , Luea’s inquiry centres on fostering coherence in social fields - enabling individuals, organisations and ecosystems to navigate the complex challenges of our times.

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.

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

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.

Being part of Collective Transitions is joy therefore, as it sits at the intersections of my two passions meaning I’m able to get nerdy about websites, designs and newsletters, whilst also nurturing my personal interest in our capacity and potential as individuals and collectives.

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.

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.

I sense the importance to open ourselves – individually and collectively – to the beauty as well as to the pain of transition. And here is where I sense our common vision and the opportunity to follow the great calling.

Cultivating deep, in the web of lived, rooted humanity, has been my journey for 35 years. I am guided by the insight and experience that life is a dance of relations - relating with ourselves, with others, with communities (be it families, villages, NGOs, companies), relating with all living beings and relating with the not knowing. My north star is to co-create peaceful, just and sustainable organisations and societies. I do this in a lot of voluntary as well as a business coach. From 1993 – 2023 I was founding CEO of an agency focused on sustainability consulting and communication.

about Andrea Since November 2024 I am certified IDG Ambassador – Kilimanjaro cohort. As a firekeeper (since 2023) of the World Ethic Forum I am co-creating and researching a culture of caring based on radically shared aliveness. The movement “Homes for Humanity” I support as an Earth Ambassador since June 2024. I belong to a little valley south of Munich, Germany, where social and organic farming is deeply rooted in the hearts of the farmers.

Yet when Natalie and Luea called upon me under the banner of organizational development, I was glad to respond: we need young, passionate, and dedicated people to embrace this field and tackle its many developmental challenges. I firmly believe that Collective Transitions is not just valuable but essential.

As a former Head of Human Resources and, more recently, as an independent organizational development and management consultant, I have much to contribute in terms of insights and thoughtful reflection.