About

Hanne is a leading thinker in the enactive approach. Based on her D.Phil and together with Ezequiel Di Paolo, she introduced the theory of participatory sense-making. Its influence across the cognitive sciences, philosophy, social sciences, psychiatry, neuroscience, education, the arts, and more, can be traced here.

Hanne holds a D.Phil. (2007) from the University of Sussex and has training in several dialogical and interpersonal practices.

Originally from Belgium, Hanne studied in Brussels, Brighton (UK), and worked in Heidelberg (DE), Donostia (ES), Vancouver (CA), and now lives in the East Kootenays, Canada, on the unceded, ancestral, traditional territories of the Ktunaxa.

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Power and Care, May 2026
Mind & Life Europe
Barcelona, ES