About

Mushin is Consultant for  Gaiaspace, London, a company and software he has co-parented. He is also Chief Strategic Adviser for Scrabel Business in Basel, Switzerland. He is a passionate community and collaboration ecologist, creating off-line and online environments that foster conversations and engagement. He understands both the technology and human behaviour in groups and communities, and seeing that complex challenges need equally complex answers, he knows from experience that multi-disciplinary, cross-silo stakeholder groups can provide these. He translates this understanding into processes that are effective to help the necessary transformation to emerge.

Mushin, starting his career as social and street worker in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has hands-on experience as a community builder, coach and group process facilitator for more than 3 decades mainly in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Germany. Mushin has been a pioneer of social networking since the first online forums and is a prolific networker.

Mushin is author of three books on human potential topics in German and of the successful blog “21st Century Ecology of Life”, key-note speaker on topics ranging from collaboration off- and online, governance 2.0 and participatory design, and facilitator in “Participatory and Deep Values Management” seminars and workshops.

Mushin is presently also engaged in these projects:
* Founder of Collaboration Services, a company supporting collaboration between businesses, and between social and for-profit enterprises.
* Adviser for Institute for Spirituality & Sustainability [SISS] at the Fordham University, New York, JAF Stoner Chair of Global Sustainability
* Facilitator and participatory design advisor for GreenWorks NYC, a Green Economy and Workforce Development Initiative with New York Council Member Alan J. Gerson.
* Facilitator with Quinx Coaching Company’s leader development programme.

Mushin Schilling’s Specialties:

Social Network Developer, Connector, Collaboration Ecologist, Facilitator, Adviser, Change-Agent, Visionary, Adaptor, Organizer, Twinkling Star