Violeta Bulc spent years inside the machinery of governance, as Slovenia's EU Commissioner for transport and mobility, before turning to a sharper question: whether humanity can learn from the one system that has held balance over long stretches of time, which is nature itself. In this conversation she shares what the Eco-Civilization movement has learned across 52 countries and seven years of dialogue, where leadership flattens into networks, where narratives are allowed to emerge rather than be imposed, and where the measure of an organization shifts from profit toward systemic vitality and life-positive impact. She makes a concrete case for participatory budgeting, residents' parliaments selected by lottery, and participatory modeling as the first lever worth pulling, and she holds the tension between emergence and agency not as a problem to solve but as a balance both sides must respect.
Violeta Bulc is a Slovenian entrepreneur, systems innovator, and former European Commissioner for Transport whose work spans politics, business, sustainability, and consciousness. From 2014 to 2019 she served on the European Commission, where she championed sustainable mobility, digital transformation, and long-term systemic approaches to Europe’s future.Before entering politics, Violeta built a successful career in telecommunications and entrepreneurship, leading innovation initiatives and founding companies focused on sustainable development and human-centered leadership. Throughout her career she has been guided by the conviction that lasting societal change requires both inner transformation and systemic innovation.Today she is the founder and curator of Ecocivilisation Lab, an international platform exploring regenerative futures and the emergence of what she calls an “ecocivilisation” – a society that lives in harmony with nature while fostering human creativity and flourishing. Her work brings together systems thinking, spirituality, feminine leadership, collective intelligence, and planetary consciousness.A sought-after international speaker, Violeta invites us to see the current global crises not as signs of inevitable decline, but as birth pains of a new stage of human development. Her voice is both visionary and grounded, offering a hopeful and practical perspective on how humanity might consciously participate in creating a regenerative and life-affirming future.
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Daniela Bomatter is a Swiss-born former software engineer and business leader who rose through various leadership positions to become CEO of SwissEnergy at the Federal Office of Energy in Switzerland. After a successful career in technology and public service, her life took a transformative turn through the encounter with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and his teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment.As a co-founder of Manifest Nirvana, Daniela has been a senior practitioner of Evolutionary Enlightenment, living, studying, and working closely with Andrew Cohen from 2008 until his passing in March 2025. Her work continues to carry forward the essence of his vision—an awakening that is not separate from evolution itself.She now lives in Tiruvannamalai, India, where she founded and runs the Manifest Nirvana Ashram, a vibrant hub for spiritual practice, dialogue, and conscious community within a small sustainable village. From there, she also facilitates the activities of the online ashram (manifest-nirvana.com), offering courses, dialogues, and retreats dedicated to evolutionary spirituality, collective awakening and cultural change.In 2025, Daniela published her first book, The Viratya Myth Begins—a mythic-visionary narrative exploring the next step of human evolution through a fusion of story, philosophy, and consciousness inquiry.
