Grian A. Cutanda PhD

Grian A. Cutanda is a Spanish bestselling author, psychologist, educator, social scientist and researcher, communicator, and social and environmental activist.He has a PhD on Social Education from the University of Granada on traditional stories as tools to change worldviews and societies, being the founder of The Earth Stories Collection, a global bank of traditional stories from all around the world capable to transmit a systemic, ecocentric, organicist and consciousness-based worldview. With 19 books published and a fictional international bestseller, The Gardener, some of Grian's books have been translated into 13 languages.

Grian has imparted courses on Transpersonal Education, worldviews and traditional stories at the University of Granada and at the UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.

As founder of the Avalon Project, an educational and activist NGO, Grian participated in the Indignados Movement – 15M in Spain (2011) and was one of the organisers of the People’s Climate March in Edinburgh, Scotland (2014). Afterwards, he was one of the co-founders of the climate social movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) in Spain (2019), and launcher of XR in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Argentina as regional liaison of XR Global and member of XR Global Resources. He also participated in the organisation of other global activist platforms, such as Shale Must Fall (2020) and Debt for Climate (2022). In September 2021, and within the XR global campaign Earth Fast, Grian was, together with the Irish activist Karen Killeen, one of the activists who have been on hunger strike the longest in the world in their protest against climate change – 33 days – until they got a meeting with the third vice-president of the Spanish government, Teresa Ribera, now vice-president of the European Commission on ecological transition issues.

Grian is currently (2024) launching a new social movement, under the name of Rainbow Warriors 3.5, to encourage second- and third-line activism in the face of the climate and extinction crisis, wars and social and economic injustice. As a part of this movement, he wants to create a global network of storytelling activists: Earth Story Tellers.