Martin J. Reinholtz

Based in the forests near Oslo, Norway, Martin cherishes and tends his close relationship to the natural more-than-human world.
He comes from a career in Organizational Leadership, Ethics, and Innovation. With 15 years of hands-on and academic experience. Specialized in emotional intelligence in teams, Inner sustainability, and the emerging field of “living systems organizations” guided by the ever-changing diversity of nature's creative properties.

After years in Leadership positions, Martin devoted his time to becoming a full-time volunteer. He has now, for over a decade, been engaged in peaceful environmental activism and civil disobedience. Taking impactful direct action towards the world's largest oil platforms in the middle of the Barents Sea, nuclear power plants in Northern Europe, and participating in mass mobilizations to halt coal production in Germany.

Throughout his engagement, he has co-founded several trauma-informed local and global environmental movements. His work has touched activists and change-makers worldwide. He now has settled in supporting activists and initiatives as an educator and facilitator in the fields of Ecological Grief, Ecological Design Thinking, Awareness Training, Regenerative Cultures, Self-Organizing Systems Design, Resilience, and Community reconnections. Guiding himself and others towards taking purposeful action with Heart despite challenging social and ecological conditions.


Rooted in the work of Arne Næss and as a facilitator for The Work That Reconnects Network (Active Hope). Martin is a scholar of Deep Ecology, System's Theory, Indigenous Wisdom, Taoism, and Zen, spending years in meditation, and Self-inquiry in Nature. As a scholar of the progressive and direct path to non-duality, his extensive inquiry continues to shape and inform his relationship with the world.

“In his work, he seamlessly weaves the more-than-human-world (nature) and timeless wisdom, through immersive somatic and thought-provoking experiences, into a compassionate path of awakening to interbeing”.