Our Team
Aveen Colgan
Education Design & Partnerships
Aveen grew up in verdant countryside in Ireland, inspiring her curiosity and reverence for the natural world. She founded the Green Living Lab in 2015
to help students of all ages become informed, inspired and engaged citizens.
She has been a nature educator for seven years and designs interactive gardens for learning and community. She also works as a consultant for social impact organizations.
Aveen guides the development of all Green Living Lab experiences and collaborations. She designs workshops to help organisations develop in the way the most successful living organisms have evolved: with agility, resilience, and regenerative solutions.
Joshua Glass
Education Design & Workshop Host
Joshua has been a nature explorer since his childhood fascination with frogs, snakes and salamanders in his home in Massachusetts, USA.
He is a gardener and a graduate of Interdisciplinary Arts. Participatory design, sensory development and mindfulness inform his work with the Green Living Lab to grow social and ecological well-being.
Joshua helps to develop workshops and programmes for children, adolescents and higher education students. He co-hosts our ‘Nature Explorers’ Club‘ for children aged 7-11 years and co-hosts our ’Forest/Society’ workshop series on regeneration.
Tibbe de Raat
Nature Connection Facilitator
Tibbe is a primitive survival teacher with ‘Bosbeweging’ (Forest Movement) in the Netherlands and leads nature connection workshops in English with The Green Living Lab. Tibbe helps people remember they are part of nature by teaching practical skills including; making a friction fire, foraging wild plants, building a shelter with nature’s waste materials and finding water.
Combined with an invitation to slow down, these activities create a vital connection with the natural world. Expect to run barefoot through the forest like a deer, build a shelter like a squirrel, drink water from a creek, and feel you belong in nature once again.
Maggie Mulley
Education Design & Workshop Host
Maggie grew up in England and graduated from our Green Student Bootcamp Challenge programme in 2017. She has a Masters in Geo-Information Science from Wageningen University. She helps develop workshops and has co-hosted online workshops for children 7-11 years.
Kristina Kalpaklieva
Creative Workshop Host
Kristina is a copywriter and amateur artist, with a passion for art therapy. She encourages playful curiosity in her creative workshops, including art from nature and crafts from recycled materials. She has a Masters in Social Science from the VU University Amsterdam and hails from Bulgaria.
Deeksha Sharma
Learning Support
Deeksha grew up in India and works as a software engineer in Amsterdam. She helps us with the development of interactive learning tools and provides training and support for our online workshops.