Welcome to the place where my story meets yours.
For as long as I can remember, I've been trying to weave together the living threads that give meaning to my life.
Looking back, I can now see the green thread running through them all:
A longing to restore the relationship between the human community and the larger web of life on Earth.
Welcome to the place where my story meets yours.
For as long as I can remember, I've been trying to weave together the living threads that give meaning to my life.
Looking back, I can now see the green thread running through them all:
A longing to restore the relationship between the human community and the larger web of life on Earth.
This green thread represents the desire to heal the relationship between the human community and the wider web of life on Earth.
This green thread represents the desire to heal the relationship between the human community and the wider web of life on Earth.
Philosophy
My love for philosophy began in the small neighborhood library in Ploiești, the city where I was born.
Reading saved my adolescence.
At the age of fifteen, I discovered philosophy and fell deeply in love with it. That love shaped the next seven years of my life. I studied Continental Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where I became particularly drawn to Michel Foucault's work on power — how power shapes what we accept as truth, and ultimately, who we become.
My Master's dissertation explored his concept of biopolitics through the environmental movement that emerged globally in the 1960s.
Looking back, I can see that the questions guiding me then are still with me today. I was less interested in philosophy as an abstract discipline than in understanding how the stories, institutions, and relationships around us shape the way we live, and how they might be transformed.
Even then, I was searching for ways to connect philosophical inquiry with the realities of everyday life, especially the climate crisis and the destruction of the living world.
Philosophy
My love for philosophy began in the small neighborhood library in Ploiești, the city where I was born.
Reading saved my adolescence.
At the age of fifteen, I discovered philosophy and fell deeply in love with it. That love shaped the next seven years of my life.
I studied Continental Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where I became particularly drawn to Michel Foucault's work on power — how power shapes what we accept as truth, and ultimately, who we become.
My Master's dissertation explored his concept of biopolitics through the environmental movement that emerged globally in the 1960s.
Looking back, I can see that the questions guiding me then are still with me today. I was less interested in philosophy as an abstract discipline than in understanding how the stories, institutions, and relationships around us shape the way we live, and how they might be transformed.
Even then, I was searching for ways to connect philosophical inquiry with the realities of everyday life, especially the climate crisis and the destruction of the living world.
Activism and Burnout
After completing my Master's degree, I found myself asking a different question. Philosophy had taught me how to think deeply about the world, but I wanted to know what it meant to care for it in practice.
What can I do for the Earth, right now?
That question led me into tree-planting campaigns, recycling projects, and eventually to coordinating one of Romania's best-known social enterprises, Atelierul de Pânză.
For four years, I devoted myself fully to the NGO sector. Eventually, I reached burnout.
Although the work was meaningful, I began to feel that it wasn't addressing the deeper roots of the crises I was trying to respond to.
Activism and Burnout
After completing my Master's degree, I found myself asking a different question. Philosophy had taught me how to think deeply about the world, but I wanted to know what it meant to care for it in practice.
What can I do for the Earth, right now?
That question led me into tree-planting campaigns, recycling projects, and eventually to coordinating one of Romania's best-known social enterprises, Atelierul de Pânză.
For four years, I devoted myself fully to the NGO sector. Eventually, I reached burnout.
Although the work was meaningful, I began to feel that it wasn't addressing the deeper roots of the crises I was trying to respond to.
Returning to the Earth
A new path opened when I decided I wanted to live closer to the land.
I joined a WWOOF project and moved to a beautiful farm in Romania's Apuseni Mountains. Living and working with the rhythms of the land became the beginning of a different relationship with the Earth.
Soon afterwards, another place called me, and I moved to Totnes, UK, where I lived for the next five years.
Known as the birthplace of the Transition Town movement, Totnes was alive with experiments in local economies, community-supported agriculture, and other ways of living beyond the dominant systems.
It was also a place where Indigenous leaders, activists, and thinkers from around the world gathered.
For the first time, I had the opportunity to listen to Indigenous elders speak about their relationship with the Earth — not through books, but through their own stories and presence.
Those encounters transformed the way I understood the living world. They shifted my understanding of the Earth from something to protect to a living community to which we belong.
Returning to the Earth
A new path opened when I decided I wanted to live closer to the land.
I joined a WWOOF project and moved to a beautiful farm in Romania's Apuseni Mountains.
Living and working with the rhythms of the land became the beginning of a different relationship with the Earth.
Soon afterwards, another place called me, and I moved to Totnes, UK, where I lived for the next five years.
Known as the birthplace of the Transition Town movement, Totnes was alive with experiments in local economies, community-supported agriculture, and other ways of living beyond the dominant systems.
It was also a place where Indigenous leaders, activists, and thinkers from around the world gathered.
For the first time, I had the opportunity to listen to Indigenous elders speak about their relationship with the Earth—not through books, but through their own stories and presence.
Those encounters transformed the way I understood the living world. They shifted my understanding of the Earth from something to protect to a living community to which we belong.
Processwork
Between 2017 and 2019, I trained in group facilitation with CFOR and the Processwork School UK.
I was deeply moved by the power of spaces where more than one hundred people could work together with systemic issues such as racism and sexism, and by the profound healing these processes made possible.
For the first time, I witnessed that conflict did not have to be avoided or resolved quickly. When held with care, it could be followed to the place where it reveals its own wisdom.
I realized that I had finally found the tools to begin working with the roots of individual and collective crises.
Processwork
Between 2017 and 2019, I trained in group facilitation with CFOR and the Processwork School UK.
I was deeply moved by the power of spaces where more than one hundred people could work together with systemic issues such as racism and sexism, and by the profound healing these processes made possible.
For the first time, I witnessed that conflict did not have to be avoided or resolved quickly. When held with care, it could be followed to the place where it reveals its own wisdom.
I realized that I had finally found the tools to begin working with the roots of individual and collective crises.
Returning to My Roots
2020, the pandemic unexpectedly brought me back to Romania.
It wasn't a return I had planned. My long-term relationship had just ended, I had no income, no savings, and no place of my own. In many ways, I was starting over.
Amid that uncertainty, I founded the Matca Facilitation Center. It became both a home for the practices that had transformed me and a way of rebuilding my own life.
In 2022, my daughter was born. Motherhood invited me into a deeper sense of groundedness and responsibility — for the way I live, the way I facilitate, and the world I hope to help nurture.
In 2025, I chose to move to the countryside so that my work could grow closer to the Earth and her rhythms.
Returning to My Roots
It wasn't a return I had planned. My long-term relationship had just ended, I had no income, no savings, and no place of my own. In many ways, I was starting over.
Amid that uncertainty, I founded the Matca Facilitation Center. It became both a home for the practices that had transformed me and a way of rebuilding my own life.
In 2022, my daughter was born. Motherhood invited me into a deeper sense of groundedness and responsibility—for the way I live, the way I facilitate, and the world I hope to help nurture.
In 2025, I chose to move to the countryside so that my work could grow closer to the Earth and her rhythms.
Interdependence
Looking back, all these chapters — philosophy, activism, burnout, community life, encounters with Indigenous leaders, and facilitation training — have been ways of learning to hold together three relationships:
My relationship with myself,
My relationship with other humans
And my relationship with the Earth.
The dance between these three relationships continues to shape the way I live, learn, and facilitate. I don't see it as something to master, but as a lifelong practice of remembering our belonging to one another and to the Earth.
Interdependence
Looking back, all these chapters — philosophy, activism, burnout, community life, encounters with Indigenous leaders, and facilitation training — have been ways of learning to hold together three relationships:
My relationship with myself,
My relationship with other humans
And my relationship with the Earth.
The dance between these three relationships continues to shape the way I live, learn, and facilitate. I don't see it as something to master, but as a lifelong practice of remembering our belonging to one another and to the Earth.
Perhaps this is where my story meets yours.
Perhaps this is where my story meets yours.
Perhaps you, too, are living through a time of transition, searching, or clarifying how you want to live your life and offer your gifts to this Earth.
If you feel my work could support you at this moment, I'd be honored to work together.
Perhaps this is where my story meets yours.
Perhaps you, too, are living through a time of transition, searching, or clarifying how you want to live your life and offer your gifts to this Earth.
If you feel my work could support you at this moment, I'd be honored to work together.
If you've read this far, thank you for your curiosity.
Curiosity is the first step toward relationship, and I believe we need nourishing relationships now more than ever, relationships where each being is seen and appreciated.
If you'd like to collaborate on facilitation projects, publications, podcasts, or other creative endeavors in service to all of life, I'd love to hear from you.
If you've read this far, thank you for your curiosity.
Curiosity is the first step toward relationship, and I believe we need nourishing relationships now more than ever, relationships where each being is seen and appreciated.
If you'd like to collaborate on facilitation projects, publications, podcasts, or other creative endeavors in service to all of life, I'd love to hear from you.
My Learning Journey
Facilitation
2017–2018: Facilitation for Leaders — CFOR (Force for Change, UK)
2019–2020: Processwork School UK — Training in Group Facilitation and 1:1 Sessions
2023
The Spiritual Healing Journey — Introduction to Collective and spiritual trauma with Thomas Hübl
2026–2027
As Things Fall Apart Fellowship — Starter Culture (UK) - Composting Modernity into Earth-centred, Inner-led, Relational Cultures
Reconnecting with the Earth
2025: Co-founder, The Pedagogical Orchard, a rural educational hub in Prahova County
2025: Coordinator, Buruiană Community Garden, Domnești, Ilfov
2024: Sacred Sites Course — Advaya
2017–2019: Core Team Member, Pondfield Community Garden, Totnes, UK
2013–2014: University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest
Academic studies in Botany and Plant Physiology
Writing
2025: Co-author Weaving back the world: stories from the Ecoversities Alliance, Ecoversities Alliance Writing Fellowship, article on Forestversities
2025: Publication of my first book, The Garden of the Self
My Learning Journey
Facilitation
2017-2018: Facilitation for leaders cu CFOR (Force for Change, UK)
2019-2020: Processwork School UK — Training in Group Facilitation and 1:1 Sessions
2023: The Spiritual Healing Journey — Introduction to Collective and spiritual trauma with Thomas Hübl
2026-2027: As things fall apart Fellowship with Starter Culture, UK-Composting Modernity into Earth-centric, inner-led, relational cultures
Reconnecting with the Earth
2025: Co-founder, The Pedagogical Orchard, a rural educational hub in Prahova County
2025: Coordinator, Buruiană Community Garden, Domnești, Ilfov
2024: Sacred Sites Course — Advaya
2017–2019: Core Team Member, Pondfield Community Garden, Totnes, UK
2013–2014: University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest Academic studies in Botany and Plant Physiology
Writing
2025: Co-author Weaving back the world: stories from the Ecoversities Alliance, Ecoversities Alliance Writing Fellowship, article on Forestversities
2025: Publication of my first book, The Garden of the Self
Ways to Work Together
1:1 Sessions
A space where you return to yourself, guided by the body, dreams, and the Earth.
Group Facilitation
The tensions within your group are not accidents. They are signals that contain the direction of the next step.
Collective Mandalas
A workshop in which we co-create a mandala from natural elements, to express gratitude to the Earth.
Life Transition Ceremony
A personalized ceremony to celebrate a life transition moment in your life through creating your own mandala.
Ways to Work Together
1:1 Sessions
A space where you return to yourself, guided by the body, dreams, and the Earth.
Group Facilitation
The tensions within your group are not accidents. They are signals that contain the direction of the next step.
Collective Mandalas
A workshop in which we co-create a mandala from natural elements, to express gratitude to the Earth.
Life Transition Ceremony
A personalized ceremony to celebrate a life transition moment in your life through creating your own mandala.
Rooted Power
How can you find a sense of home when you are challenged by life?
I created this simple practice to support you when you feel faced with a situation that makes you lose your center.
Perhaps you are facing an important decision, finding yourself in the same situation again and again, moving through a change filled with uncertainty, or simply wanting to follow your heart while feeling afraid.
Open the practice to find the ground beneath your feet.
It is here to support you to recover even at least 1% of your power and wisdom.
And to show you the next action and step which takes you closer to home.
Earth's Voices
I write about mending the broken relationship between people and the Earth. In English, for those who hear the call.
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Rooted Power
How can you find a sense of home when you are challenged by life?
I created this simple practice to support you when you feel faced with a situation that makes you lose your center.
Perhaps you are facing an important decision, finding yourself in the same situation again and again, moving through a change filled with uncertainty, or simply wanting to follow your heart while feeling afraid.
Open the practice to find the ground beneath your feet.
It is here to support you to recover even at least 1% of your power and wisdom.
And to show you the next action and step which takes you closer to home.
Earth's Voices
I write about mending the broken relationship between people and the Earth. In English, for those who hear the call.
Services
About
Legal
Follow Me
Copyright 2026. ANDREEA CRISTINA. All Rights Reserved.
Photography by Cristina Matei. Webdesign by BrandNectar.