Maria Nowicka (Poland) An experienced cultural manager, University of Warsaw alumna, M.A. degree in social pedagogy, employee of the Centre for the Art Management of the National Centre of Culture, honorary member of the Polish Association of Educators and Animators KLANZA, originator and exponent of various methods of the circus pedagogy in Poland, co-organizer of the first Polish-German methodology workshops devoted to the circus pedagogy (Druber, Germany.)

Ewa Dembek (Poland) Circus and dramatic arts teacher, activecultural manager, director, theatre and dance instructor, director of theBrodnicki Cultural Centre. Founder of the ?Heca? circus group (active for over10 years) from Lipinki and ?Bedekus? circus group from Brodnica. She was one ofthe first ones in Poland who worked with children and teenagers using thecircus pedagogy. Initiator and organizer of the ?BUT ? Theatre Feast inBrodnica? festival and the ?International Children?s Meetings with Circus? (the11^th edition will take place in 2010). Executor of numerous artisticprojects (including international artistic projects.)

Ilja Landsberg (Germany) Juggler, performer, specializes in the pedagogy of fun, teacher of circus arts with 20 years of experience in working with teachers, volunteers and therapists using circus pedagogy. Organizer and co-organizer of several circus, cultural and art projects and festivals, including international exchanges of students. He has cooperated with KLANZA for a number of years.

Jon Skjerning-Rasmussen (Denmark) Juggler and performer, he has been a juggler for over 15 years, circus teacher, the Chairman of the European Juggling Association (2007 ? current.) Instructs during workshops and training sessions organized for educational and business institutions in Europe. At his work he focuses on the value of the learning process itself, self-control and controlling one?s skills. As the Chairman of the EJA he focuses on creating and developing juggling communities and multi-dimensional cultures.

Monika Kalinowska (Poland) Educator, coach at the Polish Association of Educators and Animators KLANZA, teacher at the Primary School number 29 in Lublin, where she organizers circus classes for her pupils. One of the organizers of the "Circus pedagogy in education" conference (2007 edition). She has initiated the establishment of numerous circus groups in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Since 2005 she has coordinated the Polish-German projects regarding the application of one of the circus pedagogy methods when working with groups. 

Professor Peter. J. Beek (The Netherlands) He got his M.A. degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in 1989 in the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, where he is employed as a professor and a Dean of the Faculty. Coordination (that is, the organization of the control over the human locomotion organs), its development during the physical development, the learning and rehabilitation process are among the main research areas of Professor J. Beek. The aforementioned areas include a number of topics (bimanual coordination, the connection between perception and action, motor learning and expertise, posture, grabbing and reaching, knocking, juggling, catching, shooting.) His aim is to implement his research conclusions to clinical research on the pathology of movement in a selected group of patients, including patients with the Parkinson's disease in order to diagnose, rehabilitate and make everyday life easier for the aforementioned group of patients. Since 1999 he has been the editor of the Human Movement Science magazine, a multi-discipline magazine devoted to the issues related to movement and learning processes. 

Jan Scholz, Ph.D. (England) - Employed with the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain at the Oxford University. The Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain is a multi-disciplinary neuroimaging research facility, which focuses on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for neuroscience research, along with related technologies. His research group focus mostly on post-stroke rehabilitation, the white matter abnormalities resulting from a disease, as well as learning and plasticity in the movement system, possible changes in the structure of an adult brain as a result of the learning process.

Paweł Fortuna, Ph.D. (Poland) Psychologist, experienced coach. Lecturer at the Leon Kozminski Academy in Warsaw and at the Institute of Psychology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He specializes in cognitive conditions of the changes of postures and behaviors. He is an author of five books and a number of articles in the field of social psychology and personal development.

Mirosław Urban (Poland) Psychologist, professional advisor, coach, juggling aficionado. He is an author of the Juggling Inspiration custom-designed program that applies the metaphor of juggling into education and business. The author of a number of theses on the influence of juggling on psycho-physical functioning of a human being. He is a representative of the EJA in Poland. The leader of an international group ?Benefits of Juggling? affiliated with the EJA. Initiator of Lublin running for the organization of the European Juggling Convention in 2012.