Mansi Jasuja ✨ मानसी जसूजा

Mansi (she/her) offers a deep connection to life with art, humour, stories, creative inspirations & a lot of colourful energy. Originating from India & living in the Netherlands since the year 2000 Rooted in deep family and cultural values of social justice, equality, and sewa (service), she embodies the spirit of a warrior of the heart, a legacy carried from her Sikh heritage and her yoga practice.

An environmentalist since the age of four, Mansi followed that calling, working across architectural & urban environmental disciplines with organisations like the UN, EU, and CARE-India. In 2008, a visceral sense of climate urgency led her to reorient, unlearn, and relearn, stepping into a new path of purpose. For the past 15 years, she has been dedicated to facilitating participatory leadership, systems change, DEI and amplifying collective impact.

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An international speaker, artist-sensemaker, & process design geek, Mansi loves creating participatory spaces where people connect, transform, and bring bold ideas to life. She often finds herself hosting the edges and tending the margins, where the unheard & unseen begin to lead.

Laura Grassi

Laura (she/her) supports organizations & communities to navigate the complexity of the work they do by fostering collaboration & creating an environment characterized by participation, engagement & trust. Over the past 10 years she has worked with local governments, European institutions, developmental NGOs, Philanthropic organizations and social enterprises, to support these organizations and institutions in working collaboratively and addressing our most pressing societal issues through a new lens of collaboration and active  participation.

In her work, Laura brings together different methodologies such as “The Art of Hosting Participatory Leadership”, U-theory, Process Design, Deep Democracy and NonViolent Communication in order to offer a unique approach to collaboration and organizational development. Originally from Italy, Laura has been living for the past several years in the Netherlands, working both with local organizations as well as internationally. 

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Maria Scordialos

Maria (she/her) is a process artist, host and social entrepreneur, creating the conditions for individuals, teams and leaders to live their fullest potential. She offers her natural ability to see patterns, create structure and design processes so that new solutions and forms can be co-created.

Maria is a co-initiator of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations (also known as Participatory Leadership), and also a co-founder of Living Wholeness Institute, a consultancy and place of learning with nature in Greece.

Maria has applied her practice of participatory leadership through being a consultant for over 20 years working in a wide range of contexts from the European Union Institutions, Agencies and bodies to foundations and non-profit organisations as well as through working with multi-disciplinary networks, social movements and activists.

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Mohamed El Mongy

Special Resource Person

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Mohamed EL MONGY, Egyptian born, founder of Sycamore Consulting, and the NILE Journeys,  is an environmental consultant and a professional dialogue facilitator, researcher in collective processes, trainer and mediator with 26 years of experience working across sectors in more than 20 countries, mainly within Africa.  His experience is applied in different fields of sustainable development -mainly in Africa-, grassroot civil society, gender and adult epistemology.  

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He earned his MSc. degree in Environment and Development from Edinburgh University and his PhD in integral theory in water conflicts and security at Davinci Institute in South Africa. 

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Sara Huang 黃詩惠

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.

Steph Blake

Steph (they/them) is a facilitator and coordinator dedicated to guiding individuals, organisations, and communities through the current shifting and challenging times. With a deep passion for creating spaces that foster collective wisdom and collaborative solutions, they bring extensive experience in project coordination, conflict mediation, and participatory leadership within the Dutch climate movement and alternative education in Sweden.

With the Art of Hosting firmly in their offering, Steph has managed national climate justice initiatives, coordinated large-scale actions, and facilitated collaboration among diverse stakeholders to advance meaningful change. Rooted in practices of deep listening, inclusive space hosting, and the transformative power of (un)learning, they are committed to empowering communities and organisations to navigate complexity and adapt with resilience

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Jonas Torrens

Jonas (he/him) is a teacher and researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, where he studies how to enable transformative action towards sustainability. Originally from Brazil, he has lived and worked across the Netherlands, UK, France, Sweden, and Spain.

Over the past decade, Jonas has been drawn to facilitation. In the Art of Hosting, he has found a living practice with many surprising dimensions. What started as ‘learning a useful new skill’ became a profound journey of (self)discovery. Besides apprenticing this year, he is also training as a coach with the Aletheia School of Integral Unfoldment, to accompany change makers in their inner work. In his work and practice, Jonas aspires to bring presence and compassion, and to host spaces that invite us into deeper connection and possibility.