The Wisdom of Play at Times Like These - Zori Tomova & Jem Bendell
Channel: Jem Bendell
Date: 2022-02-28

Reconnecting with each other & nature was never more key. Jem Bendell explores this with the former Coordinator of the Deep Adaptation Forum. 

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Zornitsa Tomova (Zori) was educated in Engineering Business Management and spent the first years of her career running an innovation consultancy and several technology startups in Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Singapore. Through that, she honed her entrepreneurial spirit, but also realised her heart was out of tune with the world of technology. She made her way to Bali, looking for a new direction. It was there that she met Jem Bendell. Upon first hearing about our climate predicament, she connected to the reality of mortality and through it - to the importance of fully living. She realised she felt fully alive when connected with self, other and nature. Since then she has been dedicated to supporting the unfolding of the love that we are through creating spaces where we can return to, experience, explore connection.

She was part of the Deep Adaptation Forum core team for 2 years, acting as coordinator for a time, to support something that had been so life-changing for her to reach more people and offer them a community where they could be heard and held through their process. She left in order to dedicate more of her time and energy to her own journey of Deep Adaptation and the gifts that she felt were hers to give in the face of our predicament.

Zori is a purpose alignment coach, a shamanic practitioner and the founder of Connection Playground - a community dedicated to exploring connection with self, other and nature through shaping intimate offline and online gatherings in a spirit of emergence, authenticity, experimentation and interbeing. In her latest project, Widening Circles, a co-creation with Deep Adaptation Forum volunteer Maria Perkins, spaceholders from all over the world are coming together online to support one another, cross-pollinate and discover new ways of being they can bring to their communities. Zori’s spiritual path and love for nature and indigenous culture have taken her to magical places, spiritual communities and plant medicine work in Bali, Peru and Guatemala and rediscovering the wisdom of her own roots in Bulgaria.