The Harmony Program

Sanela M. Lee is a former Bosnian refugee living in Switzerland. For many years, she carried the burden of war and trauma. Her personal journey of reconstruction, healing, and resilience shaped her commitment to peacebuilding and positive change.

Over time, this journey shaped her commitment to peacebuilding and positive change. Inspired by her own experience, Sanela created SANCHILD International. The organization promotes harmonious growth and helps a new generation move beyond the heritage of transgenerational conflict.

Through SANCHILD, Sanela supports communities affected by war, division, and collective trauma. She believes that healing, dialogue, and emotional resilience are essential foundations for sustainable peace.

Today, Sanela is the driving force behind the Harmony Project, SANCHILD’s key peacebuilding initiative. The project supports inner peace, community healing, trust-building, and reconciliation. It also empowers local changemakers to develop ripple projects in their own communities. As a result, these projects contribute to resilience, social cohesion, and positive transformation.

With a professional background as an HR Consultant and coach, Sanela specializes in HR transformation, change management, and process automation for multinational companies. Through this experience, she combines human-centered leadership with structure, strategy, and organizational development.

In addition, she actively mentors young students at Ecolint – La Châtaigneraie through initiatives such as WeInnovate, Entrepreneurship Labs, and the GEL Summit at the United Nations in Geneva.

Rotary International recognized Sanela’s peacebuilding work through the People of Action: Champion of Peace 2024–2025 recognition, under the area of action building resilience, trust, and connection. It reflects her long-term commitment to transforming personal and collective wounds into resilience, reconciliation, and lasting positive impact.

Through her life and work, Sanela carries forward a deeply human vision: contributing to a world where individuals and communities can heal, reconnect, and grow beyond the legacy of conflict.

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Amina Agovic holds Double Masters Degree as MSc in Molecular Medicine, from Uppsala University and the University of Groningen, and certification in Communication Strategy for non-profits. As she grew up in post-war society in B&H, from a young age, she has been learning different methodologies in effective communication and conflict resolution.

“Being a volunteer for SANCHILD has promoted my idealistic mindset, and my personal mission is to contribute to trauma healing and a more peaceful environment while working on unique and creative projects.”

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Susan Laverick is the founder and director of Susan Laverick Consulting. She is a strategic communication adviser, executive coach, speechwriter, and trainer with over 25 years of experience supporting leaders, diplomats, organizations, and changemakers.

As a consultant, Susan works with international corporations, academic institutions, NGOs, teams, and individuals to address critical communication challenges. Her work helps people become high-impact communicators, especially in moments where words, presence, and clarity must deliver results.

Susan’s first-class communication background includes experience with Citigroup and the BBC in London, as well as teaching across international organizations in Geneva. She regularly works with Rotary International, preparing annual laureates for maiden speeches at the United Nations in Geneva and New York.

She also teaches critical communication skills and applied rhetoric at both the Geneva Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva. As a seasoned speechwriter and presenter, Susan supports clients in drafting speeches, preparing impactful presentations, and delivering high-stakes pitches.

Susan has a particular interest in supporting women moving into leadership positions. She helps them strengthen their authority, confidence, and communication skills. She is also often invited as a guest speaker at international conferences focused on women’s professional empowerment.

Susan holds a Doctorate in English Literature, completed on an Australian government Research Scholarship for scholars of exceptional promise. She also holds a Master’s in History from the University of London and is an ICF-qualified executive coach.

Through her work with SANCHILD and the Harmony Project, Susan brings deep expertise in strategic communication, leadership presence, speechwriting, and authentic influence. Her contribution supports peacebuilding by helping people articulate messages, visions, and stories that strengthen dialogue, understanding, and collective impact.

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Sean Andrew is a system change coach, process designer, and facilitator. His work focuses on collaborative governance, conflict transformation, action inquiry, nature-based frameworks, and emergent strategies. Through his practice, he helps people work together on complex cultural, structural, and social-ecological challenges.

Sean is currently Learning and Practice Partner Lead at the School of System Change. He also works with Forum for the Future, where he designs and facilitates system change collaborations. In this role, he helps build the capabilities and enabling conditions needed to organize for systems change.

Sean is drawn to the potential of dialogue and to new ways of organizing that support connection, learning, and action. His practice focuses on designing, hosting, and facilitating transformative processes. These processes help people and organizations engage with complex questions through care, inquiry, and collective intelligence.

His experience ranges from community-based organizing to public sector collaboration. He has worked across and between spheres of government to develop learning networks, action-inquiry processes, and new forms of governance. He also accompanies civil society organizations and businesses in cultivating systemic mindsets and practices.

Sean takes a principles and relationship-based approach to change. He explores different perspectives and possibilities to help groups identify their next most elegant step. His work supports people in deepening their worldviews, working with conflict, and creating action rooted in the future they want to live into.

His practice has been shaped by communities and approaches such as 8 Shields, The Art of Hosting, Organization Unbound, The Presencing Institute, Deep Democracy, and the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.

Through his work with SANCHILD and the Harmony Project, Sean brings deep expertise in dialogue, systems change, collaborative processes, and conflict transformation. His contribution supports a peacebuilding approach rooted in relationships, learning, coherence, and living systems.

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Buğu is a Biology graduate, a Mindfulness instructor, and a certified coach giving both Organic Intelligence and Mindfulness-based life coaching sessions. Buğu’s 11-year journey through yoga, education and therapy groups inspired her to facilitate Resilience Through Community groups based on creating safe social circles that value spontaneity, authenticity and openness.

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Passionate about sport, Mathieu gives great importance to mental preparation, with a Bachelor’s in management psychology. He is a hypnosis practitioner and supports outdoor sports companies in building strategies focused on human values.

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Justin Friedman has worked for over 20 years in the environmental and wellbeing sectors across the UK, Europe, Asia, the USA, and South Africa. His work connects environmental awareness, human wellbeing, creativity, and large-scale behaviour change.

The name Friedman means “Man of Peace”, and Justin carries this meaning through his work. He seeks to support peacebuilding with ourselves, each other, and the planet.

With a background in design development, strategic planning, Creative Direction, Communication, and Campaign strategies, Justin has supported social entrepreneurs, non-profits, foundations, governments, businesses, ecolabels, and public figures. His work helps organizations strengthen their resilience through restorative and regenerative principles. He also has a unique ability to draw out talents, contributions, action, and passion to create flow.

Justin founded FLOW (For Love Of Water) in South Africa. Through FLOW, he connected people, organizations, Government departments, Corporates, Media, Educators, and Civil Society around a shared respect for water. At its heart, FLOW reflects a simple belief: caring for water means caring for life, communities, and our shared planet.

In 2010, Justin helped create Water Access and Awareness for the FIFA World Cup. In 2011, he hosted UN-Habitat and UN-Water during their visit to South Africa for World Water Day.

He was also network leader at BiomimicrySA for five years, where he led projects focused on nature-inspired innovation and regenerative solutions.

Justin also brings a strong creative dimension to his work. He has experience producing and directing musical tracks and performances that support environmental awareness, including projects connected to TEDx and the United Nations. He also shared his work on water awareness through For Love of Water at TEDxCapeTown 2011.

Today, Justin provides advisory services for Pioneering People & Projects. He has been supporting SANCHILD’s activities since 2013.

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Boaz B. Feldman is a clinical psychologist, trainer, Dharma teacher, researcher, and contemplative practitioner. His work connects psychology, somatic therapy, contemplative practice, education, mental health, and systems change.

His own experience of personal suffering led him to search for grounded ways to build resilience, agency, and relational healing. In his early twenties, Boaz ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, where he practiced meditation and ethical living intensively. He later trained as a clinical psychologist. As a result, he learned to combine contemplative traditions with evidence-based therapeutic methods.

Boaz holds a multidisciplinary background in business, Buddhism, psychology, and integrative clinical psychology. He also trained in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, psychosomatic psychology, and corporate performance enhancement. This path allows him to connect therapy, psycho-biological sciences, organizational practice, and wisdom traditions.

Over the years, Boaz has worked across clinical, humanitarian, educational, and organizational contexts. As a humanitarian psychologist, he has led psychological first aid and staff-care missions with international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and Doctors Without Borders. His work has taken him to conflict-affected regions, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, and Myanmar.

Boaz has also contributed to research and education through institutions such as the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Catalyst Clinical and Translational Science Center. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education.

He founded and leads NeuroSystemics, a Geneva-based NGO offering community-based somatic trainings. Today, his work focuses on prevention, youth mental health, inner development, societal resilience, and flourishing educational systems.

Through his work with SANCHILD and the Harmony Project, Boaz brings deep expertise in trauma-informed practice, mindfulness, somatic awareness, resilience, and inner transformation. His contribution supports peacebuilding rooted in healing, embodiment, ethical awareness, and personal and societal change.

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Silke is a certified complementary therapist and has been trained both as a CranioSacral therapist and as a physiotherapist. Her further training comprises prenatal and birth therapy, mediation, Organic Intelligence, yoga, and qigong. She lives in Basel with her family. She focuses on increasing her clients’ resources and joy.

As a true globetrotter, he multiplied his professional activities either in adapted activities or in a rehabilitation clinic as a sports coach. Now hypnosis practitioner, he shows hypnosis added value in supporting pathologies such as stroke, trauma, locomotor disorders

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Emilie is a hypnosis practitioner and a nurse, who specialized in perinatal care. She works for her own practice and also trains midwives in support of hypnosis and its derivative tools.

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Passionate about the diversity of human psychic and functioning, Delphine turned to medical studies to become a psychiatrist and then to hypnosis to become an hypnotherapist.

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Anela Lebić holds a Federal Certificate in Marketing and a BSc in Political and Social Sciences. She is also trained in support approaches inspired by the school of Palo Alto. With over 11 years of project management experience, she brings a structured, strategic, and human-centered approach to her work.

Anela began her career in 2009 in communication sciences and conscious marketing. For more than 15 years, she has explored how messages influence human behaviour. This interest led her toward social psychology, political sciences, neuroscience, and organizational psychology.

Drawing on her experience in sales, marketing, communication, and entrepreneurship, Anela created an innovative approach through the Institute for Human Positioning (IHP). Her work helps people understand their position, their voice, and the way they relate to others.

Anela strongly believes that soft skills are essential for people to thrive professionally and personally. She uses her experience in hypnosis, human positioning, conscious communication, emotional awareness, and somatic therapies to support communication, emotion management, self-positioning, and relational clarity.

Her own healing journey after burnout and health challenges led her to explore body awareness, breathwork, movement, trauma-informed practices, and psycho-body therapies. Today, her approach combines research with deep body-based work. It supports sustainable transformation rooted in human ecology.

Over the years, Anela has accompanied more than 800 people, particularly women, through processes of transformation, body reconnection, unconscious patterns, and inner power.

Anela is also the author of Communication de Pouvoir and one of the facilitators working with Arche Suisse Beyond Borders (ASBB).

Through her work with SANCHILD, Anela brings depth, sensitivity, and embodied wisdom to peacebuilding. Her contribution supports inner transformation, authentic communication, and more conscious ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the collective.

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