Mike Kauschke is the senior editor of evolve Magazin, an author, and a freelance translator with a focus on books with spiritual and integral themes, including works by Steve McIntosh, Frederic Laloux, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Rick Hanson, and Richard Rohr. He practiced and studied Zen Buddhism with teachers in Germany and the United States and worked in hospice care. For over ten years he has been involved in the practice and development of an evolutionary spirituality and is a dialogue facilitator for the emergent dialogue.

Maria Brandau, Freelance educator and translator. As a co-initiator of a hospice center, she was interested early on in how we can encounter each other directly in our human relationships without hiding behind speech and behavioral routines. She got to know emergent dialogue as a new way of being present in co-creative togetherness, inviting wholeness into life and discovering response-ability as the ability to respond to what is.