THE HOSTING TEAM 2023

Tracy Chaplin

Tracy’s passion for deeply inclusive, collaborative leadership led her to research how the theories, frameworks, and methods included in the Art of Hosting practice might integrate with a strategic approach for addressing the complexity of the sustainability challenges. She designs and facilitates transformative leadership development programs, multi-stakeholder engagements, and organizational change initiatives using strategic dialogue, collaborative processes, and mindfulness practices. Using what she terms “living systems leadership” through her consulting company Co-Nexio, Tracy brings stories from lived experience along with her passion for teaching and mentoring emerging leaders. After 4 years as Program Director for the Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS), she has helped to steward Art of Hosting trainings in Sweden, Japan, Vietnam, Europe, and the US, with Karlskrona as her AoH heart center. Tracy is based in Duluth, Minnesota US, where she spends her time creating art, studying energy healing, organic gardening, and playing with her Bernese Mountain dog, Sylvie. LinkedIn

Toke Moeller

Toke has been pioneering the fields of sustainable entrepreneurship, the art of hosting conversations and work that matters, participatory leadership, educational renewal, and social responsibility since the early 1970s. He is one of the the co-founders of The Art of Hosting, The Flow Game, and The Practicing for Peace dojo – all in service of a kinder, more humane leadership and citizenship for the future of people, nature and planet. He is co-founder, with Monica Nissén, of InterChange - a for-more-than-profit training and process consulting company based in Denmark. Toke and Monica have worked with the educational systems, international NGOs, governmental institutions, private companies, health care institutions, villages and first nations and international networks in all the continents. Toke has been part of initiating and supporting the Art of Hosting & Participatory Leadership practices into 32 countries around the globe - as well in the European Commission, ministries, institutions and several universities. Toke strives to inspire himself and others to practice personal peace as a basis to practise peaceful coexistence and wellbeing for All - regardless of circumstance.

Isabel Chender

What is happening? What can education also be? How can we work towards collective liberation for all beings? Isabel is a learning designer, graphic facilitator, and researcher. She is currently working at Hyper Island with Learning Partnerships, active in debates about experiential education and the future of work. At the same time she is finishing a second masters degree in Degrowth: Economy, Ecology, and policy. Her current research focuses on equitable futures creation through arts and policy,  and so the calling question for this year is a direct sync! Through her work as a hosting steward, she continues to explore participatory leadership applications as a visiting contributor at alternative education programs and work with creative projects related to collaboration. She never really ends her working engagements given her love for people, place and relationships and so she is a community member of The International Youth Initiative Program, The Unschool of Disruptive Design, the Amazon Summer School for sustainability leaders, and MSLS (where she has been part of the Art of Hosting training for several years and has given lectures and workshops).

Narayan Silva

Narayan Silva grew up in Brazil but sees himself as a global citizen, with a mixed blood and many years living in various countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. He holds a MSc. in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, and is guided by his passion to support people and organizations who want to realize their potential for creating  positive impact. He experienced his 1st Art of Hosting training in Sweden in 2013, which had a huge impact in his work. Since then he has dedicated his life to this field, which has allowed him to host collaborative processes for numerous organizations around the world and from all sectors. He lived in Vietnam to co-lead Knowmads Hanoi before moving to Shanghai in 2018 to join the sustainability consulting agency Constellations as an associated partner. In China he works mostly with European multinationals with ambitious sustainability goals, Sino-European governmental partnerships and public institutions.​

Mansi Jasuja |  मानसी जसूजा

Mansi feels fortunate to have lived an unconventional story that brought her from practicing architecture to being a practitioner designing & hosting meaningful conversations, processes. She offers a deep connection to life with humour, stories, yoga, creative inspirations, hugs, some madness & a lot of colourful energy. She has worked across several urban environmental disciplines in various international organisations. In 2008, a growing sense of climate urgency led her to re-orient herself & step off the conveyer belt of "success & safety". In the last decade, she has been strongly purpose driven and focuses on facilitating participatory leadership, DEI & empowerment through building capacities, skills & communities. Having grown up with strong family/cultural values around social justice, equality and being in service (sewa), she tries her best to embody these values in her way of being. Art of Hosting feels like her home community and she loves being in practice and embody becoming a warrior of the heart. Some of the "turbans" she wears in her life are: Network & community weaver, Humanist, Host-Facilitator, Sense-maker, Mentor, Mother, Speaker-Storyteller, Systems Rebel, Yogi, Dendrophile. LinkedIn

Justas Kucinskas

Justas Kucinskas is a host whose philosophy and movement background have enriched his approach to hosting conversations that matter. As a practicing philosopher, Justas raises questions about the profound impact that language and concepts have on shaping our reality. As a movement teacher and ex-professional dancer, he also understands the importance of nonverbal communication and the role of the body in how we relate to the world around us. With his unique perspective, Justas is committed to fostering connectedness between people and promoting sincere communication, while emphasizing the importance of growth through personal embodied practice. As the founder of MOVI, a movement community in Vilnius, Justas applies the AoH practices daily, using learning provoking movement situations followed by honest group conversation as a recipe for a well-practiced life. As a proud father of three wonderful kids, he's not only an expert in negotiation, conflict resolution, and complex communication, but also a seasoned host in the art of parenting, where his skills are truly tested and expanded in playful and creative ways.

Sophie Charrois

Sophie considers herself an earthling with a deep curiosity for complexity & life itself. She graduated from MSLS in 2020 & has been continuing her learning journey ever since. Sophie is a practitioner of the Art of Hosting, a Flow Game host & active in the Warm Data community, to mention some of the networks she associates with. Being a dancer since early childhood, the topics of embodiment & play mark most of her work. Over the past 2 years, Sophie was invited to steward the international oikos community as a co-president, putting her learnings around participatory leadership, organizational transformation & systems change into practice.

Helle Solvang

Helle is self-employed host and cultural entrepreneur. She is developing concepts for podcasts and audiowalks for universities and museums and hosting conferences and meetings with a high level of participation and engagement in collaboration with companies and organisations. She has 20 years of experience as a documentarist, host, campaign manager and journalist at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) mainly in the field of green transition, language, arts and culture.​ Helle is a host and steward of the Flow Game and a dedicated practitioner of the Art of Hosting. She has trained as a teacher and choir conductor at The Musicology Institute in Copenhagen and has studied cross-aesthetics & communication at 'Modern Culture' at the University of Copenhagen. In 2020 she opened ‘The Soil Academy’ (Jordens Skole) for regenerative development in society and micro-farming. As a result there are today several garden action groups around Denmark, an activist media platform communicating about soil and the popular ‘Lovesoil Podcast Masterclass’ courses. Through everything she does she is dancing the dance of engaging people in systemic regenerative thinking, arts, nature and a more active everyday democracy. LinkedIn

André Benaim

​Andre enjoys creating the conditions for personal and organizational development. His focus areas are innovation, learning processes and sustainable development. He has worked with public and private actors  developing trainings and workshops, as well as, working with innovation performance and capacity building. His academic background includes a master degree in leadership and sustainability; research focused on capacity development for innovation in teams; and certification in coaching methods, which enables him to supporting individuals and teams to develop to their full potential.

​Efua Uiterwijk

​Efua is working in a number of fields of inquiry – from storytelling the human cultural relationship to plants, exploring spiritual gender archetypes and how we go beyond them, to visual arts and collaboratively creating new ceremony for these lands in which she finds herself making home (United Kingdom). Efua also works as a sustainability consultant in the built environment, where a lot of energy and materials are spent, impacting how buildings, infrastructure and cities address the need to be resilient and regenerative. As a part of this Efua delivers training and facilitates participatory workshops on culture change and strategy development for sustainability. She co-founded Sheffield Sustainability Network, a participatory, peer-peer learning network and is a part of a deep mentoring group with writer and change-maker, Mac Macartney, exploring the inner path of deep connection and the outer path of being in service to the earth.

​May Rada Jutrakul

May is a full-time life-long learner, work-time program manager & learning designer and facilitator (at Hyper Island), and down-town impactful project initiator and supporter. Her curiosity for learning and development began when she realised the inequality of educational opportunities as a little girl, and how her own opportunities in life until today are the product of that inequality. With this fact, May is committed to exploring ways to reshape what education can look like and how one can be in service of it while trying to lessen the gap and make it more accessible for all. May is a big believer in the power of people for change. Through her work around organisation, community, and collaboration, she is inspired to always explore more on topics such as effective participatory processes, self-organised teams, and learning organisations. May uses the tools and methods practiced at AoH and is eager to be of more service and learn from this community that creates meaningful initiation for change. With her background in Master's in Learning, Education, and Technology and MSLS, and impact work in different contexts, May has found her path in working with learning and development, alternative education, education for sustainability, and building leadership capacity. LinkedIn

THE ORGANIZING TEAM 

Trang Nguyen

With her background in teaching and education, Trang cares about holistic approaches and practices which nurtures head - heart - hand learning. Since 2020, she has been focused on practicing and facilitating training on Compassionate Communication for individuals and organizations in Vietnam. She believes authentic connections and trusting relationships expand spaces for personal growth and collective learning. 
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Trang first experienced Art of Hosting training in Mundekulla 2022, organized by the previous class of MSLS. She was inspired by the power of invitation questions and good harvesting that can bring clarity for collective intention and action. She joined the 2023 training's organizing team to engage deeper in hosting practices and learn from the AoH community of practitioners.

Jasmin Sepahzad 

Jasmin (she/her) has walked a diverse and colorful path before arriving in Sweden to study MSLS and through the programme finally getting to know the Art of Hosting. Native to Germany she has traveled many corners of the world and ventured into many unknown territories in the outside and inside world. The contact to, and appreciation and study of nature has been central to her life since her early childhood, and led to a bachelor degree in Biology and Horticulture, for a teaching degree. Weaving the green threat to another strong passion that is education and the facilitation of groups.A deep exploration of compassionate communication, emotional work and community has shaped the last years of her life, fueling the hope to change the outside through inner understanding and healing.

The Art of Hosting represents to her a heartful contribution to untying the knot that is the challenge of today's unsustainable, unjust and unloved world.
She joined the organization team to learn and grow through joint creation. And as well to make it possible for more people to experience the nourishing and safe space an AoH training can provide.

Madalena Ravara

Madalena (she/her) is a student from sunny Lisbon, Portugal. Having her background in Environmental Engineering, she is moving further away from exact sciences, and embracing the imperfection and complexity of the human experience. Hers has brought her to MSLS and Karlskrona, where she has fallen in love with the beautiful sunsets, the nature and the people. She has embarked on a journey of lightness and smiling through the discomfort of the unknown. 
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In the AoH, she is inspired by the possibility of finding new ways to work creative and collaboratively, while being guided by powerful questions. She looks ahead with hope to a future where we have prioritized our relationship with each other and with nature, and are able to regenerate the beauty of the connections that make us part of this complex living system.

Carlos Ambriz

Carlos is originally from Mexico City, Mexico and his home is and will be there, although lately he has flown to different places as a free bird which has made his home in different parts of the world as it is now Karlskrona, Sweden. 
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He finds inspiration from collaboration, curiosity and growth, and together with his experience in youth leadership and management of intercultural cooperation events, Carlos joins the organisational team of AoH 2023. He holds the belief that the world needs ways to find better personal and community practices, and the Art of Hosting supports us in achieving a future worth living in.  

Pauline Wenzel

Pauline (she/her) loves being with all kinds of creative people, storytellers, lovers of living and learning. When she finished her bachelor degree in "Food and Nutrition Science" she was longing for a more practical experience and traveled to Spain to work on a CSA. Heartfull with the nourishments of a wonderful experience she moved to Sweden to be part of the 10 month long social entrepreneurship course "The International Youth Initiative Program".

​During MSLS she would dive deeper into the topic of sustainability and participatory leadership. The power of questions and curiosity to learn are guiding her way and inspiring her with a lifelong inquiry of how we will collectively create futures where regenerative practices are an essential part. Practicing AoH allowed her to explore purpose-driven work in complexity, to collaborate across borders and to embrace diverse perspectives. She dreams of a future that is welcoming all beings to come together and creating the right conditions to actually step into action towards justice, and foster life in harmony with nature.

Marianna Buoro


​Mariana (she/her) has an academic background in International Relations, experiences in both the corporate and nonprofit worlds, and is passionate about the power of social movements in igniting change. For the past five years she has been dedicated to supporting the development of community-based projects in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
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She is excited about her first Art of Hosting training this summer - particularly as a space to practice fostering better conversations and building stronger bridges between people.