Cristina Gutiérrez

is an educator and since 1986 she has been working with children and adolescents in contact with nature. She has trained in emotional education, coaching, NLP, positive communication and leadership with horses. She is co-director of La Granja Escuela de Santa Maria de Palautordera, where 10,000 children and 1,200 teachers pass every year. She is president of the Foundation for Education. In 2006, the pedagogical team of La Granja Escuela pioneered the implementation of emotional education in activity programs with children, given the numerous emotional deficiencies they perceived in them, developing their own methodology. She also gives practical emotional education courses to students, teachers and parents, and gives lectures at schools, companies and sports entities. She has also participated in various television, radio and press programs, and directs the publication Va d’ educació. She is married and has two children, ages 18 and 14.