Team and Contributors
Evgenia Emets, Founder and Art Director of Eternal Forest
Evgenia Emets, a Fine Arts graduate from Saint Martin’s, artist and poet, and the Founder of Eternal Forest, who explores environmental and ecological themes in her work. She uses calligraphy, visual poetry, installation, performance, and site-specific art in nature to express these ideas.
Eternal Forest is a multidisciplinary art project creating 1,000 forest sanctuaries to be protected for 1,000 years by local communities as forest guardians. Founded by artist Evgenia Emets, Eternal Forest is growing into a global organization in collaboration with artists, scientists, cultural agents, tree-planting organizations, and land partners.
Eternal Forest has been exhibited in Portugal and internationally: Arsenal, New York City, Hall of Biodiversity, Porto, Estufa Fria and Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon, National Museum of Natural History and Science and Botanical Garden, Lisbon among others.
Dylan Chester
Dylan Chester: Coming to the world with years of experience in tree planting, permaculture, and regenerative forestry practices, as well as community organisation, and a dedication to system change. I come from Celtic roots, born in Ireland, and raised in Scotland. I endeavour to honour nature’s rich story in relation to land, spirit and what is and always will be something more than the human story.
Each project I undertake is a step toward bridging the divides that often separate people from nature and each other. Having witnessed firsthand the challenges and rewards of ecological restoration, I know that the work of cultivating ecosystems is as much about restoring natural biodiversity as it is about fostering interdependence within communities. With every seed planted and every conversation had, I am building spaces that invite us to remember our roles as caretakers and collaborators within the larger web of life.
Alongside practical restoration efforts, I approach communication as an essential tool of change-making, one that draws people into nature’s narratives and illuminates our shared journey. Just as I find joy in experimenting with plants and observing natural patterns, I am inspired by how stories connect people, awaken empathy, and inspire a regenerative mindset. I aim to use this blend of practical and creative experience to cultivate ecosystems where nature and humanity can thrive in balance.
Alejandra Verde
Alejandra Verde: My path has led from agricultural ecosystems to coral reefs and forests. This journey of witnessing firsthand the degradation of nature from human activities has taught me that healing our planet requires not just technical solutions but a profound remembering of our place within nature’s symphony. From guiding international divers into beautiful coral reefs, I learned how connecting with nature can have such a profound impact in people’s lives.
I’m with Eternal Forest driven by a recognition that protecting all natural ecosystems requires healing multiple relationships—between people and nature, but also between people themselves. I find the project’s thousand-year vision ambitious and bold, thinking beyond short-term gains toward intergenerational responsibility. What resonates most deeply is the integration of conservation science with community connection and artistic expression, acknowledging that lasting protection emerges when we engage both hearts and minds. Through my work with Eternal Forest, I hope to contribute to creating more harmonious and respectful ways of living that honor the intrinsic value of forests while enhancing their capacity to shelter biodiversity, stabilize climate, and nurture human communities for centuries to come.
Daphne Frühmann
Daphne is a Lisbon-based cultural strategist and program maker working at the intersection of art, ecology, and technology. She specializes in conceptual development and transdisciplinary programming that brings together people, landscapes, and ideas.
Her work is grounded in a belief in the importance of future thinking and the role culture plays as a catalyst for transformation, as we navigate complex ecological and societal challenges.
Deeply inspired by the imaginative power of art and design, she is driven by the question: how can we do things differently, more creatively, more symbiotically — dare we say, better?
Kama Woynarska
Kama: The forest has always been my safest place – where I feel most grounded, most alive, and most myself. It’s this lifelong bond with the natural world that inspires my work and personal projects, including guiding forest bathing sessions to help others reconnect with the land and their own inner stillness.
I’m a generalist with a specialist’s focus and a beginner’s curiosity, moving fluidly across disciplines- from creative strategy, AI, and partnerships to women’s empowerment and embodied practices. As a dancer, I explore movement as a form of storytelling and connection, both to the self and to nature.
My life is intentionally designed outside the box – where adaptability, intuition, and creativity guide the way. With Eternal Forest, I support the vision of reimagining our relationship with the living world, and I believe that remembering our belonging to the forest is one of the most radical acts of healing we can do today.
Advisors
Victor Vorski
Victor Vorski: To thrive and survive humanity needs to reimagine how we do everything – to reinvent learning, work, leadership, community, economy and society to function regeneratively. My life is devoted to contributing to the growth and development of the widely-understood regenerative movement: everyone working to create a people & planet-positive future.
I am an ambassador and strategic advisor for Eternal Forest – an art & community project to leave a legacy of 1,000 Sacred Old Growth Forests protected for 1,000 years.
My key contribution is to organise Gathering of Tribes – a co-created gathering bringing together organisations and communities working to create a better future for people and the planet. I am also working on a regenerative village project in Portugal, and consulting a number of other villages around the world. In all this, I’m a life-long student of remote-first, regenerative organisation building and servant leadership.
Jesper Carvalho Andersen
Jesper Carvalho Andersen is a Portugal-based, Danish Investment Professional, and serial
entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in the areas of international M&A and corporate
turnarounds within health, cleantech, art, luxury, sport, and impact.
Jesper is passionate about minimal living, while on the board of a range of institutions, EU
Initiatives, foundations, charities, and family offices.
Jesper is a proud family man with two adult children, has a BA in International Management
from Niels Brock Academy, Copenhagen, and a Certificate in Economics from École
Commerciale de Paris, France.
Marco de Abreau
Marco de Abreau: Whole person. Father of 3 children, born in Funchal in 1971. Facilitator, entrepreneur and evolutionary mentor. Co-founder of The Stretch Consultancy, of Fundação Terra Agora, of Innovations for the Future and more than 12 adventures between companies, associations and cooperatives, including Safira, Darwin and Community of Evolutionary Entrepreneurs João Sem Medo. Graduated in computer engineering from IST in 1994, he earned a master’s degree in distributed systems (internet) and study for a doctorate in engineering and organizational design. Since 2005 he has developed skills in ‘entrepreneurship method’, ‘collaborative and participatory leadership’, ‘human development’.
Evolutionary entrepreneur
‘I have been an entrepreneur since 1996. When I saw myself as a rationalist/modernist, Safira was born. At Darwin I found myself as a postmodernist. In João Sem Medo I observed myself as integral. It is as integral as I see it, born ‘The Stretch Consultancy‘ and the Terra Agora Foundation and Innovations for the Future.