"AGI may hold the key to solving some of the most complex challenges of our time, if humans and intelligent machines can collaborate to enhance the conditions of life on Earth. However, in the wrong hands or solely for financial and political gain, malicious applications of AGI’s potential could lead to unthinkable harm at catastrophic scales. This participatory framework is our urgent call to the global community of key decision-makers to begin putting steps in place for collectively stewarding AGI’s potential as a global commons."
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About Anneloes
Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM) is an award-winning futurist, systems scientist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and polymath. She is recognized globally for her pioneering work in systemic and societal transformation through collective intelligence alignment, AI innovation, living systems design, participatory governance, regenerative economics, sustainability, and the activation of human potential.
She is the founder and CEO of the EARTHwise Ecosystem, which includes a tech startup for game and AI development, an education platform, a research lab, a collaboratory for community engagement, a publishing house, and a token issuance company. She is the creator of Elowyn: Quest of Time, a digital strategy card game designed as one of the world’s first arenas where humans and advanced AI models are trained together in win-win strategies and deception decoding to generate trusted collective intelligence solutions through fun-first gameplay. She is also the lead architect of the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization, and the lead author of the Participatory Framework for an AGI Constitution, which pioneers a commons-based approach for governing advanced AI systems.
Anneloes was named on the 2025 Leading Women to Watchᵀᴹ in the category Climate Change and Sustainability, received the Visioneers Lifetime Achievement Award (2022), the Africa’s Most Respected CEO Award for Human Development (2022), and the BIZZ Business Excellence Award (2022). She was also awarded the Africa’s Women Leaders Citation (2018) by CMO Asia and the World Women Leadership Congress. She holds a Master’s degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University and a Ph.D. in systems change from Maastricht University, where her Doctoral dissertation Into the Heart of Systems Change, is now applied worldwide as a blueprint for systemic transformation in economics, education, politics, and governance.
She is the co-author with Dr. Jean Houston of the Future Humans Trilogy, including the #1 bestsellers The Quest of Rose (Silver Nautilus Award) and Return of the Avatars (Gold Nautilus Award), both widely acclaimed for their transformative impact. She is also the author of Love Letters from Mother Earth, the co-editor and co-author of The New Paradigm in Politics, and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports. Anneloes was also the co-host of the Future Humans Podcast.
Anneloes has led numerous global transformation initiatives, including the r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint, the SEEDS and Hypha DAO Constitutions, the Education for Sustainability program for 22 schools in Mauritius, and sustainability leadership programs for executives and companies in the financial and hospitality sectors. She developed and facilitated the Global Dialogues for the SIDS input into the UN SDGs, trained SIDS Youth Leaders under UNESCO, and played a lead role in the successful UNESCO World Heritage listing of Le Morne Mountain in Mauritius. She also served as a lead trainer for the Mauritius Institute of Directors.
She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle of the Source of Synergy Foundation, a founding member of the Global Development Board of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, co-founding Member of Living Cities Earth, an Advisory Board member of the Interstellar Community Foundation, Photrek, and Simuli, a r3.0 Advocation Partner, and a partner of the Global Education Futures Initiative.
Anneloes is a globally sought-after Keynote speaker, known for her visionary and transformative talks. To book her for a Keynote, please contact her speaking agency.
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Publications by Anneloes
Elowyn: Quest of Time is an epic transformation game where players confront the deceptive forces known as "Moloch," which tempt humanity into short-sighted choices that undermine our collective future wellbeing. Through your gameplay and strategies, you’ll also train benevolent AIs, uncover hidden win-win strategies, and shape the evolution of both humans and AI.
Elowyn serves as one of the first global arenas for safely training AI to scale toward benevolent AGI. Every choice you make generates actionable, pro-social data that helps align AI systems with human and planetary values, while the Play2Thrive token economy rewards behaviors that benefit players and the planet.
Currently in Alpha development, with over 50% of the build complete and DRLM AI models in progress, Elowyn is on track for a public Beta launch in Q2 2026. The game lore builds on the stories and characters of the Future Humans Trilogy,Â
The Quest of Rose is Book 1 of the Future Humans Trilogy written by Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston and is a Silver Winner of the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards in the category of Personal Growth, and became a #1 Amazon Bestseller in several categories. Available as paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Also available in German as Die Reise der Rose, translated by Dagmar Wolff.
The Quest of Rose guides you through an experiential transformation journey that weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what's happening in our world right now, with cutting-edge insights from the new sciences, indigenous wisdom, and consciousness teachings for discovering the greater possibilities of our future becoming. Referred to by many as: "a masterpiece" and "one of the most important books of our catalytic time". The book offers nine Cosmic Keys and twelve transformation practices.
Return of the Avatars is Book 2 of the Future Humans Trilogy written by Anneloes Smitsman, and Jean Houston, and is a Gold Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards  which became a #1 Amazon Bestseller in several categories. Available as paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
New dangers lurk around the corner, attracted to Rose's growing powers. A spell-breaking, soul-stirring adventure to explore essential lessons about power, unity, ego, shadow, hope, courage, and love. You’ll now discover how to decode the systems and agendas of the economics of domination and the governance of disunity. Develop your future human powers with the help of seven Cosmic Architect Tools and ten transformative practices.Â
"As we awaken to our true reality, dormant supernatural powers and potential will become the norm. This book is prophetic.”  ~ Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Anneoes is the lead author of the Participatory Framework for co-creating an AGI Constitution, which is initiated by EARTHwise Centre in collaboration with SingularityNET, AQAL Foundation, and others to co-steward AGI as a global Commons. Today, at this pivotal tipping point time, we offer this participatory framework for guiding the creation of an eventual global AGI Constitution. This document is intended to serve as a living compass for charting an unprecedented course toward a thrivable future, so we may steward the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence as a global commons. This is an evolving and open document, where you can share your ideas for what may soon become the most important governance priority of our time.
The EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization is one of our most ambitious collaborative initiatives for addressing the root causes of the sustainability crisis. Architected and initiated by Anneloes, the Constitution serves as an open-source Compass and social-contract for co-creating thrivable worlds and futures with the wisdom and evolutionary capacities of living systems. Supporting us in becoming the future humans of an emerging planetary civilization, as our collective pledge for healing our divided worlds and regenerating our Earth. Endorsed and supported by the EARTHwise Partnership Alliance for a planetary civilization with 40+ organizations and movements (growing rapidly).
Love Letters from Mother Earth - The Promise of a New Beginning by Anneloes Smitsman, became an Amazon Bestseller in 2018. It includes thirteen letters in the voice of Mother Earth to guide us into the heart of our humanity and remember the essence of who we truly are. Providing essential wisdom and support that our planet, as a caring and conscious Mother, shares for this challenging time. Supporting you to discover three keys of wisdom for actualizing our unity and transforming the root causes of thousands of years of division.
Messages from Mother Earth  is based on the book, Love Letters from Mother Earth, and provides a unique audio experience for entering into unity with the consciousness of Mother Earth. Each Message carries you to the beauty and wisdom of life within you, carried by the voice of Mother Earth. Coming home to who you are beyond this time and place. Remembering life from wholeness and discovering the seed codes for a New Beginning. Created and spoken by Anneloes Smitsman with music composed and produced by Alan Howarth. The music is tuned to an A note of 424 cycles (Hz), which is the natural resonance of the heart.Â
The r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint for which Dr. Anneloes Smitsman served as the lead author, provides 7 Transformative Learning Perspectives for Regeneration and Thrivability. The seven interconnected Learning Perspectives form the foundation for the inner and outer shifts towards regeneration and thrivability. Each Learning Perspective is explored through a three-fold structure that offers various dimensions of each theme. The full Blueprint is summarized through a list of recommendations.
Into the Heart of Systems Change
Into the Heart of Systems Change, is the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, and presents her research as an external researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (formerly ICIS), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, from September 2014 to August 2019.
The dissertation offers a diagnostic integral framework for addressing key systemic barriers of mechanistic systems and growth models, which are at the root of our worsening sustainability crisis. The dissertation includes a Transition Plan for a Thrivable Civilization through 7 steps.
A life-centric qualitative growth model is offered with 5 Future Archetypes through a narrative of thrivability, instead of mere sustainability. Various methods are combined into an integral approach for systemic transformation, weaving together indigenous wisdom, new paradigm cosmology, informational sciences, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and complexity sciences - grounded in the praxis of inner and outer systems change.Â
Transition Plan for a Thrivable Civilization
This article provides a summary of Into the Heart of Systems Change, and its proposed Transition Plan for a Thrivable Civilization that can be summarized in 7 steps:
- Diagnose and make visible the presence and impact of systemic thrivability barriers that result from mechanistic systems, models, and growth archetypes.
- Address and transform the systemic thrivability barriers through transformation strategies that address the dualistically polarising dynamics of mechanistic systems.
- Develop future creative capacities through evolutionary learning processes that are embedded within evolutionary learning communities and evolutionary learning ecosystems.
- Apply evolutionary archetypes for our societal and human development, like the 5 Future Archetypes that feature in the EARTHwise Constitution and are applied in the role functions of the EARTHwise Collaboratory and the Hypha DAO, as well as the character design of the Eloywn: Quest of Time game.
- Develop regenerative, inclusive, and distributive economies that are designed as evolutionary living systems.
- Develop governance systems and institutional design for the future that enables the transition to a thrivable civilization, by empowering people with the means and opportunities for stewarding our future wellbeing together.
- Work with the transformative potentials of social tipping points dynamics for the required societal transformations and grassroots engagement.Â
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Endorsements for Anneloes & her work
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
World-Renowned Pioneer in Personal Transformation
“Full of wisdom and insight, with a vision of the future everyone can benefit from in our age of change amid uncertainty. The Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston is an act of true compassion, which exhibits empathy and understanding that leads to answers, and the answers are the essence of the world’s wisdom traditions. The stories in this Trilogy speak directly to the heart, where all inner journeys begin. When the heart awakens, the person is transformed. This Trilogy is living proof that such a radical change is desirable, possible, and necessary in everyone’s life."
Jean Houston, Ph.D.
Principal founder of the Human Potential Movement
"Anneloes Smitsman is a leader and pioneer in the development of the architecture of creating civilizations that enhance the wellbeing of both person and planet. In this she is a treasure trove of ingenuity and wisdom. She is one whom leaders in social evolution regard as the person who has the genius to implement the revolutionary solutions and visions that can advance the necessary development of both people and planet. I, as well as many others, regard Anneloes as a female Einstein. I met prof Einstein when I was 8 years old, and he told me that his greatest quality was imagination, a quality which Anneloes shares abundantly and which informs her extraordinary creative gifts. She is a living example of what it means to walk the path of the emerging future human.
Knowing her very well and having worked with her in the development of our books and courses, I can honestly say that she is one of the brightest minds I have ever met. She is a true renaissance woman who brings her unique gifts to the kinds of design and implementation that have the power to shift the negative trajectories of our present world, and thus she creates the designs and solutions that introduce a whole new architecture that inspires while it implements the creation of the promise and dream of a thriving world. Anneloes brings together the tools and the practical knowledge to accomplish this evolutionary task.”
Lynne McTaggart
World-Renowned Pioneer in the New Science of Consciousness
“Dr. Anneloes Smitsman’s original research has relentlessly delved into revolutionary ideas and brought radical new scientific truths to light. And her background as a creative force of systemic transformation in education, economics, governance, and ecology has resulted from a marriage between her scientific originality and her extensive experience in the spiritual and mystical realms. The Future Humans Trilogy is a work of profound hope during these tumultuous times, by offering a powerful new definition of ourselves and a vision of unlimited future possibility."
Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
World-Renowned Pioneer Evolutionary Biology
“To survive through evolutionary chaos, we must first recover our creative powers. In Return of the Avatars, book 2 of the Future Humans Trilogy, distinguished visionaries Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston offer vital tools for accessing, activating, and empowering innate creative consciousness. Return of the Avatars is a profoundly important science-based guide for future humans to become Cosmic architects of a sustainable and thrivable world. I highly recommend this readable book as a valuable and empowering contribution in nurturing our evolving civilization.”
Jude Currivan, Ph.D.
Cosmologist, Futurist & Author of The Cosmic Hologram
"Through her writing and teaching, Anneloes’s authenticity and wisdom radiate with a crystal clarity and resonate with compassionate grace. Gently she guides readers and students through journeys of inner and outer discovery, inspiring and empowering them to re-member their own true selves and sense of purpose. As a teacher, guide and companion, she is a loving and hopeful gift of Spirit to the world."
Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.
Scientist, Noble Peace Prize Nominee
"We live in the most crucial epoch in the recent history of humanity. We need to rethink where we are going, and change the way we go. We need to BE the change we want to see in the world. This calls for leadership — leading ourselves to be the change we need. This is perhaps the most vital quest of our time. Joining the leadership programs of Dr. Anneloes Smitsman could be one of the most effective steps you could now take."
Lawrence Bloom
Former Secretary General, Be Earth Foundation
“In my blessed life’s journey I have had the true privilege of meeting some extraordinary and remarkable souls. Anneloes Smitsman is up there with the best of the very best. From vision to strategy, from strategy to tactics, from tactics to operations, she is a profound and very rare master. I recommend her unhesitatingly, and celebrate our personal friendship and her gift of mentorship to me.”
