Rohan Gunatillake, Founder
Rohan first got interested in meditation just weeks before he got a job with one of the world’s leading management consultancy firms. And while he’s no longer with that particular company* that creative tension between the seemingly opposite worlds of meditation and 21st century life & work has become the central narrative of Rohan’s life since 2003.
Rohan has practised meditation since 2003, mainly in the insight meditation tradition, and has trained with some of the world’s leading teachers in Europe, the USA and Asia. He also happens to have extensive experience in management consultancy and digital/social innovation and is currently leading a major new digital innovation initiative with the Edinburgh Festivals.
Rohan is part of a generation of people skilled in meditation who are translating that experience and ongoing learning into the language of our times. He is passionate about what is happening as more accessible forms of meditation becomes more mainstream in our culture and hopes to be one of people who helps put on that particular party.
Already a popular blogger at 21awake.com Rohan was recently a runner-up in a poll for Hottest Male Buddhist Blogger 2009 which as you’d expect was hotly contested. Having spent most of his life in London where he helped run Europe’s leading urban insight meditation organisation, Rohan has recently relocated to Glasgow.
He likes udon noodles, social theatre and his wonderful girlfriend. He also like trainers. In fact he likes them so much that he decided to base the colour scheme of this website on his beloved pair of Nike Air 180s.
* the only thing he has in common with Tiger Woods
We are recruiting
The Here&Now Project is looking for new people to join its team. To be eligible you need two things:
- you are passionate about the idea that the Here&Now Project is based on
- you have a skill to share
That skill can be anything at all, so please do feel free to surprise us. However expertise that we are particularly looking for at this time include:
- graphic design
- interaction design
- blogging/writing/journalism
Get in touch using the email address in the top right of the screen if that sounds like you. Even if it doesn’t, we always like getting messages from nice people like you
