Team

Counselor, mental health professional. She holds degrees in several different fields: humanities, linguistics, theology, and mental health, counseling and family care. For more than two decades, she worked as a pastor with people of all ages. She taught RE in primary school for twenty-five years, during which time she became familiar with various playful and developmental pedagogical methods. As a result of another segment of pastoral work, she gained experience in tender writing, accounting, and economic management. In addition to personal pastoral care, she led a bereavement group for years, dealing with loss and bereavement processing, learning support, and children and families living in extreme poverty. To this day, she still holds self-help sessions in nursing homes for the elderly, as well as weekly sessions and summer camps for teenage groups. Between 2006 and 2016, she worked as a translator, editor and reader editor for several publishers (Agave, Bookworm Training, Calvin), and she is a science fiction writer known as Raana Raas. Since 2008 he has been managing director of his own publishing company. She has been working for the Rogers Foundation since 2022.

She is the former executive director, professional leader and senior trainer of the foundation. Virág has three Masters degree, and a PhD of linguistics and communication, as well as having been trained in numerous non-formal programmes. She is a trained psychodynamic dance- and movement therapist, Metamorphosis Folk Tale Therapist, and a person-centred counsellor. In recent years, she has worked as researcher, developer and trainer in the field of resilience-development, play pedagogy, drama pedagogy, adventure pedagogy, sustainability education and talent development in projects organized by the Rogers Foundation as well as other NGOs. Having been a trainer for 28 years, she is responsible for the high level of quality of the accredited and non-formal training programmes of our Foundation.

In addition to project management, she also organizes events, trips and project communication tasks for the foundation. She was a financial internal auditor, then a trainer, then a children’s and women’s yoga instructor, while teaching English for years. She likes to learn by playing with children – this is how she has been helping to catch up and deepen in experimental pedagogy children’s camps for years. In her free time, she plays with dogs, takes photographs or self-realizes in cooking, in the latter she is (also) an enthusiastically supported by her family. He has been working at the foundation since January 2023.

Ancsi has nearly two decades of experience in youth and community development, and in her own NGO she also tries to support the young people who approach her as a mentor, using her individual methods to build a community. For almost 5 years, she has been providing training and coaching tools to groups and their leaders to help them create an effective and inclusive environment. Playfulness and experiential learning are the cornerstones of her work, regardless of age, and she has been following our Foundation’s work since 2016 as a self-development facilitator and joined our activities as a staff member this year. As a project manager, she tries to bring her own approach to her work, and connecting with nature, play, music and arts are all part of this. She shares our results and values with the world through our foundation’s marketing tasks, and has been a member of the team since March 2023.

He graduated in Corporate Finance at Corvinus University. During his work as a program organizer, he travelled to many places both abroad (e.g. Lyon and Brasov) and domestically. His relationship with his homeland, Slovakia and Komárno is essential for him, so he takes part in organizing local culture (dance houses, courses, camps), mostly in addition to finding tender sources. He also worked as a cultural organizer of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. He also carries out leisure, therapeutic instrument teaching and orchestral activities in the Threepatak Orchestra and the Tatros Ensemble, and also edits the folk music broadcast of an online radio station beyond the border. In addition to dance and music, he enjoys sports, and recently he has opened up to creative art. He has one son. He has been a project manager for the foundation since February 2023.

She graduated as an economist in Slovakia at the Selye János University in 2009 specialized in business management. After graduation, she established her own company, where she was the CEO for 15 years. Meanwhile she has participated as a volunteer in Hungarian associations as project manager and programme organizer, too.
IAs a community manager she is organising folkdance camps and dance houses for more ten years. She also teaches folk dance in many educational institutes. In 2016/2017 she participated in the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Internship Programme in France, and between 2018 and 2020 in the Petőfi Sándor Internship Programme in Romania, both of which programmes mission is to strengthen Hungarian cultural identity and keep traditions among Hungarians living abroad. As of October 2020, she is a project manager at the Rogers Foundation.

She graduated in Spanish and English at the Faculty of Humanities at ELTE. She started to teach in traditional schools. For some years, she lived a ‘double life’: she was working in a regular school and at the same time in an alternative school, in Rogers. Since 1990 she worked only for Rogers School, where she was responsible for the building up of the secondary school section. Since September 2012, she has been the Head of the Rogers Academy, the successor of Rogers High School. She has extensive experience in curriculum development and pedagogical programs. She participated in many alternative educational projects, methodological development, organization of thematic days. She is the mother of two boys and a girl.

She graduated as a primary school teacher in 1988 in visual arts and English. From 1989 she took part in the founding of the Carl Rogers Person-Centered School in Budapest, where she became a class teacher and later a working group leader. From 2006, she continued to work in the high school department of the school, and from 2012 in the Rogers Academy as a mentor to develop the pedagogical work of the Rogers attitude with adolescents. In addition to pedagogical work with school-age children, he has participated in several domestic and international pedagogical projects, partly as an expert and partly as a leader in piloting processes. In 2019, she completed the 240-hour ‘OD2 Organizational Development Bachelor’ program with a specialization in person-centered approach. In 2020, she graduated as a psychodrama assistant. In addition to working with students, he uses the knowledge of both trainings during professional coaching with colleagues and supportive conversations with co-workers.

She graduated as a mathematics teacher at ELTE, where she later completed her postgraduate training as a teacher of Hungarian language and literature. She lived in Ireland for nearly four years, where she taught mathematics to SNI students at a sixth-grade boys’ high school. She specializes in helping adolescents with atypical development, developing a positive relationship with learning, and professional support in finding their individual paths. She regularly holds and participates in trainings and conferences. She has been working at the Rogers Academy since 2012, where she develops teaching materials for students with atypical development. In her work, personal relationship and a new approach to the role of teacher play a prominent role. In her view, the teacher is not the owner and transferor of knowledge, but the helper and supporter of the student’s learning. She is the founding leader of the cultural association operating in her place of residence, dreamer, organizer and implementer of community-cultural programs. She has three teenage children and two dogs.

Bálint holds a master’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Vienna and an undergraduate degree in Biology from ELTE, Budapest. He joined Rogers Academy in 2018, working partly as a person-centred mentor in topics such as ecology, biology, scientific thinking, and English. He also plays a lot of table tennis with the kids. And partly, he is responsible for building an international network of Rogers-inspired institutions across Europe. He has given workshops on person-centred versus democratic education at the conference for democratic education, IDEC/EUDEC 2019 in Ukraine. Balint is also involved in the Erasmus+ project ‘Building Capacity for Transformative Learning’ with the project team. In his scholarly work, he focuses on the philosophical underpinnings of bodily feelings and their therapeutic applications in somatic practises. He is an external lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. Earlier, he worked in catering, he was managing a vegan restaurant in Scotland for three years and was an Austrian Barista Champion in 2017.

She has an MSc of History and French Language Teacher, and started to teach in Rogers Person-Centered School of Budapest in 2004. Initially, she taught History and French in elementary and secondary school classes. From 2005, she participated in founding of Rogers Person-Centered High School. She regularly participated in strategic and communication trainings for the high school teaching staff. She has been working for Rogers Foundation’s education project (Rogers Academy) since 2012, as a mentor and organizer of non-formal learning programs. She also works on the elaboration of History and Social studies education programs.