Annette Kaiser was born in Zurich in 1948. After studying economics and sociology at the University of St. Gallen (CH), she worked for many years in the field of development cooperation. At the end of the 1980s she founded her Tai Ji DO school and has been training teachers ever since. From 1982 she was a student of Mrs. Irina Tweedie for 17 years and was authorized by her in 1998 to continue the specific path of love. In 2000 she developed the “practice path DO”, which she continues to develop and teach people in a non-dual, cosmocentric understanding. In today’s teaching and learning activities, Annette Kaiser focuses on the transformation of the heart of all people as a glocal way of life. As an evolutionary visionary, who sees herself in the tradition of an enlightened mysticism, she is close to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Mirra Alfassa, Auroville). In her book “One World – One Humanity – One Consciousness” she invites a Universal Spirituality.

Besides her heart’s commitment as spiritual teacher and author, she is also the founder and spiritual director of the seminar house Villa Unspunnen in Switzerland, which has been a place of silence and spiritual home for many people for 22 years. For more than 30 years she has also been president of the non-profit association “Open Hands”, which supports projects in Asia, Africa and people worldwide. She initiated the circle of the “Global Cooperative Forum”, which inspired many, and is also the initiator and “vision holder” of the European “movement” www.co-creating-europe.eu and the 2020 ONE TREE-Planting Peace initiative.

Annette Kaiser teaches worldwide, however, especially in Europe. She is married, mother of two adult children and grandmother.

Drs. Anne-Marie Voorhoeve is co-founder and strategic connector of The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence (THC).  An Evolutionary Leader with a powerful vision, her work includes global, multi-stakeholder projects toward a peaceful humanity and a  thriving world of love, unity and workable solutions for the highest good of all life. 

As a certified expert in Spiral Dynamics, Art of Hosting and SQ21 spiritual intelligence, Anne-Marie works with communities, businesses, networks, organizations, technology providers, politicians and NGOs across the world.  She is co-founder of Bridging Continents Council and Living Cities Earth, co-initiator of Peace Day Youth Assembly, partner of Global Artificial Intelligence Alliance, and a member of SDG Thought Leaders Circle and the Conscious Business Synergy Circle. the chief creative director for the Club of Budapest (COB), president of COB Netherlands, and part of the core team of Brand Earth. 

Anne-Marie is co-producer of global conferences, including the Dubai Convergence 2023 and the annual World Unity Week and Peace Week conferences. She is co-organiser and co-facilitator of the Deep and Rapid Transformation Convergence to develop, curate, and connect evolutionary thinking and innovative solutions with the global dialogue in support of the United Nations Summit of the Future process, towards fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Anne-Marie has received the World Forum Peace Prize for Communities 2017 and the LOANI Ladies of All Nations International Peace Leadership Award 2023.