The Hosting Team
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Mary-Alice Arthur
Mary Alice is a Story Activist, working with story in service of positive systemic shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues. In plain speak, she creates spaces where the right story can take people into a flourishing future. Taking back the power of your own story is a foundation for your personal journey of transformation and a keystone in answering the question: “What is mine to do?”. She is an internationally recognised process host, building capacity for people to host and harvest the conversations that matter and the stories that surround them in the systems they live and work in. She has worked as a consultant all over the world and is now based in Columbus, Ohio, in the US. She is inspired to work with large and small systemic stories that hold keys for a more generative future. She hosts a Facebook page called The Story Dojo. Mary Alice is a sought after process host and teaches participatory process all over the world as an international steward of the Art of Hosting
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Tracy Chaplin (formerly Meisterheim)
Tracy is guided by a passion for building individual and collective capacity for conscious leadership, deep connections and wise action. Through designing and hosting transformative learning experiences and strategic change initiatives, she illuminates connections between people, planet and new possibilities. Tracy is an Art of Hosting Steward and founder of Co-Nexio, an independent consultancy based in the US. In the ‘90’s she co-founded and directed a sustainability education center based on permaculture, social entrepreneurship, nonviolence and community resilience, following a decade in environmental education & leadership development. From 2011 – 2015, Tracy was the Director of MSLS (Msc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability) at BTH in Karlskrona and is grateful to be returning ‘home’ to contribute for her 6th year on the AoH Karlskrona team.
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Caroline Rennie
Caroline works with teams from executive level to factory floor, using participatory practices to solve intractable problems in Human Rights and the Environment. Her goal is to deliver sustained alignment and heightened effectiveness in the environmental and sustainability domain. She has served as coach, advisor and strategist to senior teams in multinational corporations, government, and international & local NGOs in the US, Europe and Africa. She is the founding and managing partner of ren-new, a company that works with people in organisations to make sustainability fruitful for individuals, companies and communities; and is a steward of the Art of Hosting, working internationally, and based in Switzerland.
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Johan Decoster
Johan helps people and organisations thrive.
He is a consultant, coach and trainer and is always learning and exploring the realm of personal and organisational development. He supports organisations and teams creating better results with participatory leadership approaches, collaborative practices and creative processes. As a structural thinker he helps to unlock everyone’s unique potential and create the structures that allow people and organisations to make clear choices and create the outcomes they really want. He is a practitioner of the next organisational paradigms that have self-organisation and wholeness at their center. |
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Isabel Chender
Isabel creates learning environments that support, illuminate, and catalyze individuals and groups. An avid listener and learner, she works across sectors and communities to foster collaboration, see the bigger picture, and make collective decisions based on insights and questions. She is currently a strategic and creative process consultant for Brave Space social innovation, co-organizer/leader of the Amazon Summer School sustainability education program in Brasil, and an alumni of the Unschool of Disruptive Design . Her studies at ALIA (Authentic Leadership in Action), Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (M.SLS) and the Art of Hosting internationally have provided the theoretical basis for her practical experience working on projects related to participatory leadership, sustainability, and radical education. This has led to collaborations with teams and projects across South America, North America, and Europe. She was a co-organizer of the 2014 Art of Hosting in Karlskrona and is looking forward to returning to the Rotundan.
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The Harvesting Team
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Narayan Silva
Narayan grew up in Brazil but sees himself as nomad, having experienced learning and working in several countries. With a MSc. in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability in Sweden, he is passionate about helping people and organizations to realize their potential for creating a positive impact in the world. During his year in Sweden, he experienced his 1st Art of Hosting training, which had a huge impact in his work. Since then he has dedicated his life to this field, and for the last years he hosted processes for numerous organizations around the world, from small NGOs to corporations such as Nike and Mercedes-Benz. Narayan is also passionate about transformative education. That led him to be a UNESCO ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) Youth delegate in 2014, and work for the Knowmads Business School in Hanoi, Vietnam. He has been based in Asia for most of the past 5 years, but this will be the 6th time in a row he will join the AoH training in Karlskrona, a place he is glad to call one of his homes.
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Viola Clark (formerly Tschendel)
Since graduating in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability in 2014, She works internationally with designing, harvesting, and hosting conversations, meetings, and organizational journeys that matter, practicing in particular visual facilitation, recording, sensing and sense-making. Transposing the dynamics and words in the room into visual language, she creates artwork in real time, both on paper in physical space and digitally in the online realm, as part of an intentional learning process. She does, host, teach it and collaborate at all stages, and include the subtle spheres of interaction and communication. This all, to make the futile graspable, discover new territories, and support communication of what's important. For the 5th year in Karlskrona, she also comes with an intentional community background, as a tiny house builder, an aspiring herbalist, an animal lover, and currently, as a nomad soon migrating to the US.
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Jakob Kohlbrenner
.Jakob is a Art of Hosting practitioner rooted in Germany’s sunniest city, Freiburg. He brings a holistic understanding of societal and environmental problems from his background in sustainability sciences which he studied in Lüneburg. In his work as a Visual Facilitator he pairs transformative facilitation and visuals with a strong passion to create impact in the socio-ecological transition. He supports many different projects, conferences and events in Germany and Europe in their participatory process design and harvesting to foster collective intelligence, participatory dialogue and group sense-making. Working with strategic harvesting he designs solutions for participatory processes to make conversations visible, tangible and more pro-active. It’s his 4th year in Karlskrona in a row and he is exited to build more capacity to bring forward change.
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The Organizing Team
Robin D.
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Trang
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Adriana
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Robin W.
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Anastasia
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Eric
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Mari
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