“We got tired of dreaming big and living small, so we decided to go for it and live our dream!”

Yurie is a seasoned Art of Hosting practitioner with over 10 years of experience, and has been nurturing the field and its community in Japan. She collaborates with organizations dedicated to promoting diversity, inclusion, equity, and sustainability.

Leveraging her expertise in dialogue and participatory leadership, Yurie is also the founder of Spaceship Earthship Mission! projects to engage school kids, students and local people to learn sustainability with dialogue practice and foster community of practice based on the learning based on Master in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability and Art of Hosting practice.

Caroline has worked for decades using participatory practices to build community and collaboration in companies, supply chains, government, and communities of practice. Her goal has been to help people improve their individual and collective situation, including the environment, society, and non-human beings. She does this by working with groups to speak with intention, listen with attention, and reflect together on what they have heard. In this way changes, both subtle and obvious, manifest for the group as a whole. This often leads to change without pain: change for the better that is seldom noticed until attention is brought to it. Caroline has a Masters in Public Administration from the Fels Center of Government, and Bachelors Degrees in Economics and Anthropology.

Mansi feels fortunate to have lived an unconventional story that brought her from practicing architecture in Delhi, India to being a practitioner designing & hosting meaningful conversations and processes in Europe, based in The Hague. She offers a deep connection to life with her art, humor, stories, yoga, creative inspirations & a lot of colorful energy. As an environmentalist since the age of 4, Mansi followed that thread and worked across several urban environmental disciplines in various international organizations & NGOs including United Nations, European Union, CARE-India. In 2008, a visceral sense of climate urgency led her to re-orient and began on a new path of unlearning and relearning. In the last 15 years, she has been strongly purpose driven and focuses on facilitating participatory leadership, systems change, DEI & empowerment through building capacities & skills. She’s an international speaker/host, an artist-sense maker as well as a process design geek around creating participatory processes. Mansi is co-stewarding the Dutch field of Art of Participatory Leadership. She is also currently writing a book on the true cost of holding non-participatory gatherings.

At the core of Sara’s work lies a belief in the power of collaborative, embodied, and trusting environments to make the invisible visible and the unspoken heard. She is a heart-based consultant and human-centered facilitator with nearly two decades of experience in the field and proven track record of success in facilitating change within government organizations, grassroots movements, and corporations. She holds a master’s degree in Public Administration, certification in Power Intelligence combined with being a diplomate in Processwork (the highest level in Process Oriented Psychology). Sara specializes in crafting transformative spaces that foster connection and collaboration. Using generative conflict to drive progress. Sara draws from various disciplines, including Deep Democracy, the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method, Theory U, visual facilitation, and the experience she gains from every engagement she facilitates.

Ellie grows up in a neighborhood where people not only know each other, but also their neighbors’ parents, children, even the in-laws. The relationship, support and communication inspire her to work in fields where she can nurture those elements. When she encountered AoH in 2016, she found the mindset and the practices that help her become a better person, a better contributor to the work and to her community. She is bringing these practices to teams and organizations through her work in the WE program and Đom Đóm Lab. She is also a flow game host, an ukulele practitioner and a mother of a 1-year-old and 12 stuffed animals.

Eric is an accomplished IBM professional with 25 years of experience, 15 in management, excels in leadership and communication. As an IBM GCG Manager Eminence Award recipient, he successfully led six departments during his tenure. Since 2015 Eric has focused on facilitation and leadership development, integrating various theories and practices to support clients in achieving business goals.

With a passion for employee development, Eric has designed and facilitated numerous workshops for IBM leaders across Asia, including the Manager Development Program and High Potential Development Program. He has also collaborated with business unit leaders on workshops to improve customer satisfaction.

In the past two years, Eric has facilitated over 100+ workshops in Taiwanese schools, assisting educators in transforming classrooms through facilitation approaches. He also facilitates strategic meetings for government and non-profit organizations. Eric’s dedication to personal growth through reading, yoga, and meditation is matched by his commitment to fostering positive change in Taiwan through facilitation.

“Listen for understanding with deep sensitivity to allow, honor and encourage diverse others to participate”.

Rene earned her Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) credential at an exceptionally early stage in her career, setting a record as the youngest to achieve it. Specializing in strategy and innovation, she has extensive experience facilitating workshops across diverse industries. Passionate about human-centered dialogue, she integrates facilitation with creative problem-solving to drive meaningful change.

Wendy is a capacity builder with expertise in design thinking and career counseling. Her human-centered design journey began in Brazil in 2009, where she worked on cultural inclusion initiatives, and later expanded into grassroots community leadership development in the U.S.

Now based in Taiwan, Wendy collaborates with universities, NGOs, and social innovation teams to design participatory learning engagements that are grounded, creative, and inclusive. Drawing on her experience as a design researcher and her everyday life as a Waldorf parent raising two boys, she brings a compassionate and thoughtful spirit to every workshop she facilitates.