Meet The Northern Light Team
Cooperating to build a world that is more resilient and harmonious, dedicated to nurturing and preserving Mother Nature.
Romain Cavillon
Romain Cavillon is a farmer, engineer, musician, and traditional Chinese medicine practioner. He is the founder of the Northern Lights organization, initiated after having experienced a multitude of youth work through non profit organisations. After his degree in Global Engineering and a few years working as an engineer he started a journey around the globe, looking for answers and living building examples of sustainable places. After living nomadically around differents parts of Europe, he chose to settle down in his ancetral land and start working for relocalisation rather than globalization. His vision for the Northern Lights is to make what he would call, an Oasis. A dream of self sustainability on a local scale for food, energy production and inter-cultural social gatherings.
Zein Gaia
Zein Gaia is an artist, architect, and eco-feminist with a Masters in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design. Through her experience living, learning and working with eco-conscious communities around the world, she has become an advocate of global citizenship and embodied sustainability through inner work and authentic expression. Currently she supports the Northern Lights as the media and communications manager, content creator, project writer and group facilitator. Her style of group facilitation incorporates eco-feminist principles and has introduced practices from Joanna Macy’s “The Work That Reconnects”. Her journey weaves between physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual connection to Mother Nature.
Veronica Hong
Veronica Hong is on a mission to foster an inclusive, inspiring, and loving world where people lead fulfilling lives as their authentic selves, in harmony with all beings and nature. Driven by a desire to contribute to positive change and support others in realizing their potential, Veronica creates playful and regenerative spaces for exploration, deep connection, and co-creation. Her approach centers on shifting mindsets and expanding consciousness, cultivating the inner capacities for positive transformation. She believes that by nurturing authenticity, fostering connections, and developing our inner resources, we can collectively create a more compassionate and vibrant world.
A Co-Creative Approach
The Northern Lights team is composed of diverse professionals, including environmental sociologists, organic farming practitioners, architects, engineers and accredited permaculture teachers, as well as volunteers and wwoofers eager to learn more about sustainable living. Together, we embrace creative, collaborative, and cooperative governance to tailor our activities to various audiences, with a strong focus on empowering youth.
Our team has organised and facilitated workshops on the topics of sustainability, permaculture and social peace skills like non-violent communication and sociocratic methods for group decision making and efficiency in group decisions. We facilitate other groups and individuals to achieve their personal learning goals through connecting as many eco-projects and individuals but also through organizing coming together opportunities for people in similar fields of profession related to sustainability to enhance cooperation amongst them and so to build a strong community with values of inclusion, peace and ecology.
Join us as we cultivate a sustainable future—one rooted in harmony with nature and enriched by shared knowledge and community spirit.
Want to join our team?
We are always looking to co-create with professionals and enthusiasts who are dedicated to building a more resilient future for the next generations.