Trevor Sharman  lives in Ealing in West London and loves living in the diverse bustle of a great city and also spending as much time as he can in countryside. After working for many years in social work and community development he now does what he likes. He likes to grow some of his own food in his nearby allotment and is a former holder of The Bill Green Cup for mixed salading, a career highpoint! He still works with community organisations and has helped initiate a Transition Town initiative in Ealing He has been involved in Be The Change and The Work That Reconnects, training as a facilitator in awareness raising about the need for a transition to a sustainable way of living and engaging with the sense of sacredness of life. He claims that he is “… still re-training to become an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilled human presence on Earth.” Trevor has been involved with GreenSpirit for some years, having been a participant in a 'Co-operative Enquiry' into living in a sacred way with other GreenSpirits and having been knocked out with David Abram's books and talks and Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry's work.

Hilary Norton lives in East London. Her four children are grown up but apart from one son (with family) in Japan, they live nearby.  She loves being in the east end, and cycles to work in Tower Hamlets as an advisory teacher for ICT and Special Needs, helping kids with their learning, mostly using specialised computer equipment and software.Hilary believes strongly in making cities greener places to be, so supports the London Wildlife Trust, Woodcraft Folk, sustainable architecture, allotment gardening and local Green initiatives. She sings in a local community choir, grows veggies, fruit and flowers on her allotment. She periodically becomes a Tudor for 16^th century re-enactment, through the medium of her alter ego, ‘Etty’ who works in the woolshed on the Manor of Kentwell Hall,  spinning and weaving. Hilary says: “I love this because it is a place where many young people learn ancient crafts (e.g. cheese making, basket weaving, bee keeping, spinning, turning etc) and perpetuate them.”  

Hilary has played a key role in GreenSpirit since the mid 1990s. As well as serving on Council, she runs a local GreenSpirit group in Stratford and organises both the annual GreenSpirit walking holiday/retreat and ‘Wild Week’ in Snowdonia.

Ian Mowll is GreenSpirit’s Administrator and many people’s first point of contact with the organization. It is a role that he loves. Ian’s career started with computing in the financial markets, followed by charity/social enterprise work and now he is more and more involved in spiritual development.
Some of the things he loves to do are: playing his bass guitar, cooking, storytelling, clowning, travelling to unusual places and having mad ideas. He is single and lives in Stratford, East London. 

Ian has been involved in GreenSpirit since 1999 and sees it as his spiritual home. He says: “Finding GreenSpirit was the first time I found somewhere where I truly felt I could be spiritually ‘me’ without having to pretend. When joining GreenSpirit, occasionally people use the phrase ‘welcome home’ – a phrase that feels good to me.”  He is also deeply involved with the Interfaith Foundation.

June Raymond is a Notre Dame sister who spent most of her life as an English teacher. Then she spent two years on the Isle of Erraid, a Findhorn community in the Hebrides, where she lived Green Spirituality and learnt about it from the inside. Now she lives near Liverpool and works as a healer and therapist using Bach Flower remedies and teaching them to new practitioners. She also runs workshops and gives talks on various subjects. June has been involved with GreenSpirit for many years and a member of the Council since the mid 90s. She enjoys being involved in the annual gatherings but because of the distance doesn’t often get down to London events. 

She particularly likes to be involved with our spirituality and philosophy and is a fairly regular contributor to the journal. She loves being part of a group of inspiring and like minded people. One of her regular activities is attending local Newman Society lectures. She has been particularly inspired by the writings of Thomas Berry and recently edited a book of meditations using quotations from his work.

Beryl M Myers is Northern born and bred and passionate about England’s north east landscape in all it's guises. Retired almost ten years, she enjoys gardening, art, photography, walking and reading. 

Beryl came across GreenSpirit through Quaker Universalists and seeing a GreenSpirit Journal at one of their meetings. She has been a member for several years and explains that for her, GreenSpirit speaks to and feeds the Inner Soul in a way that belonging to a religious group doesn't. 

She remains involved with the Quaker movement, particularly the Quaker Universalists and is a member of the Northern Friends Peace Board  and a bellringer in her local Parish Church. But she says she also needs “…space and time alone ... to sit and think.”

Chris Holmes’s conversion to a green ethos was gradual but thorough. He worked for nearly three decades in the financial markets , and as Director of a large City institution was instrumental in the introduction and development of  'green' investment funds - one of the few activities he feels good about during this period! Since leaving the financial sector in the mid 1990s he has spent his time in voluntary work and developing a range of eco-related interests.

His hobbies include working three organic allotment plots, walking, running, natural bodybuilding, tennis, playing guitar and banjo, the Christian contemplative tradition and retreat movement, local history and the poetry of John Clare. Chris is married to Jill, also a ‘greenspiriter’, and lives in Surrey. He has been involved with GreenSpirit for 12 years and on the Council for most of that time. He says: “It is home for me emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. I feel blessed to be part of this movement.”  He is also involved with the Green Party, Garden Organic, the John Clare Society, the Thomas Merton Society among others.  

Alan Whear’s lifelong passions are for amateur music-making (he is a keen harmony singer and melodeon player) and for woodwork. For 35 years he had a musical instrument building and repair business and made the replica piano for Jane Campion's film ‘The Piano’. 

Since retiring after a stroke, he has been working at a wood recycling venture, making bespoke items from reclaimed timber. He is a member of his local Friends of the Earth, and although he is less involved in committee work, he gets more of a ‘hands on’ experience with wood recycling.

Alan says: “My spirituality is rooted in a sense of joy, admiration, and above all celebration of the Universe, warts and all. My first contact with GreenSpirit was enjoying creating ritual with the Ascot group in the 1990s. The abiding feeling is one of having found a ‘spiritual home’ and of inclusion. I look forward to helping spread the GreenSpirit message.”

Formerly a transpersonal psychotherapist/workshop leader/health educator with an MA in East-West Psychology, Marian Van Eyk McCain officially 'retired'  in 1996 to concentrate on her writing. She is the author of two books on women and ageing, two on downshifting/simple living and two works of fiction and in 2010 she edited the anthology GreenSpirit: Path to a New Consciousness. As well as writing essays and articles on a wide range of subjects, including include wellness, stress-management, psychology, women’s health and aging, green spirituality, organic food production, simple living and alternative technology, Marian is also a blogger, a columnist for ‘Crone’ Magazine, Editor of the ‘Elderwoman Newsletter’ and co-Editor of the ‘GreenSpirit Journal.’ She runs a local writers group and an online social network for elderwomen. Her other interests are Permaculture, hiking, reading, word games and travel.

Marian lives in North Devon with her American partner Sky and spends part of each year in Europe and the USA. They have four children and eight grandchildren. She has been a member of GreenSpirit for many years. Her main website is www.elderwoman.org

Debbie Rabia graduated with a BA in Eng Lit and Comparative Religion. She is very proud of her two rather creative half-Iraqi daughters. While volunteering for a Womens’ Centre Debbie met her same-sex life-partner - who is a veteran of Greenham Women’s Peace Camp. Coming out at 37 was a personal paradigm shift for Debbie. She enjoys working in mental health recovery. She was first introduced to GreenSpirit when her local group formed around 2002. She has been increasingly involved locally and, encouraged by Ian Mowll, joined Council in 2010. Debbie finds participating in GreenSpirit community profoundly nurturing. It’s the place where she comes home to herself.
She is a Co-counsellor, volunteers with Braziers Park eco-community in Oxfordshire and is keen to collaborate with newly-launched Transition Reading as part of its ‘heart and soul’ wing.

Debbie identifies as an open and curious introvert. Her maternal grandmother who grew veg, baked and foraged remains her enduring role model. She enjoys cooking, sharing poems and songs and wild spaces.

Richard Adams has a longstanding interest in appropriate technology, education and holistic herbal medicine. He helped to establish Europe’s first BSc Honours degree in Herbal Medicine. Richard lives and practises Herbal Medicine in London, England. He enjoys hill walking, music making and the theatre.

In response to his heartfelt need to think differently, from his conditioned thinking, about the natural world, he is exploring an earth centred consciousness that engages people’s hearts and minds, creatively, with Mother Nature. He finds that new values, morals and ethics emerge from such adventures which, in turn, inform his actions in the world.
Richard first came across GreenSpirit  in the mid 1990s  at St.James’s Church ,Piccadilly, London, when informally researching the life of William Blake. He finds GreenSpirit to be a stimulating and nurturing community that engages with issues relevant to the human and other than human communities.