Ada Vlachoutsikou is a trained professional in family constellations as taught by the Greek School (founded by Dr. Dimitris Stavropoulos) and graduated from the Greek Institute with recognition from Bert Hellinger, with whom she had the opportunity to work and translate for.

Initially, she studied Biology, earning a degree in Natural Sciences from the USA and a master’s degree in Nature Conservation from the United Kingdom.

Today, she is also a certified Life Coach in Austria and has experience conducting seminars in Greece, Austria, and Burkina Faso, drawing inspiration from Greek Mythology. Her expertise lies in mythological representations, addressing social, environmental issues, and participant concerns.

Ada currently runs a private Austrian business of Socio-Ecological content. Her company sells organic products that support small farmers and action oriented nature conservation projects in protected areas of Greece.

As a biologist with a Masters degree in Nature Conservation she was one of the forerunners in monk seal conservation in the late 80s and 90s. She was the first person to record and estimate the importance of Zakynthos as a monk seal habitat, while being instrumental in the creation of the two national marine parks of Greece: Alonissos and Zakynthos. Her expertise, combined with a second degree in counseling, has always been to create bridges between top down science and government to the locally enacted and experienced.

In areas where environmentalists were unwelcome and even threatened, Ada was successful in achieving local consensus and influencing the next generation to see the value of endangered species such as seals and turtles which were once hated or killed without a second thought by fishermen etc. Sticking to her youth’s mentality of “think globally – act locally” she has often contributed to the exchange of know-how between marine parks, fishermen, farmers, tourism, stakeholders and local government.

Public awareness has been a lifetime commitment, enacted through her work with newspapers, radio and TV. Ada has been most active in Greece but has also conducted projects in America as well as Ukraine, Austria and Africa (Morocco and Burkina Faso.)

Some of Ada’s Publications