ART OF HOSTING
NETHERLANDS
MEET THE HOSTING TEAM
The Team
Mansi feels fortunate to have lived an unconventional story bringing her from being an architect in India to a practitioner designing & hosting meaningful conversations, processes and a co-founder of Conscious Business. She offers a deep connection to life, treehugging, humour, stories, a listening ear, unexpected creative ideas, hugs, warmth, some madness, energy & a lot of colour.
Originating from India and living in the Netherlands since the year 2000, you could call her a cross-pollinating generalist who has interdisciplinary work experience in several international organisations & across various sectors. In 2008, a growing sense of climate urgency led her to re-orient herself & step off the conveyer belt of "success & safety". In this 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 justice, equality and being in service (sewa), she tries her best to embody these values in her way of being.
Mansi Jasuja
Maria 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 has applied this through working as a corporate director in the public sector in the UK, a consultant for over 20 years, a co-initiator of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversation, as well as a founder of Axladitsa-Avatakia and the Living Wholeness Institute. She is also co-founder of AoHAthina in Greece, an initiative bringing participative leadership in times of collapse and crisis.
Maria Scordialos
Yannick Wassmer (he/him) is a student of equitable systems change and a complexity nerd. He loves to design and facilitate collaborative change processes and transformative learning experiences - using participatory and dialogic methodologies for inner and outer change.
He firmly believes that the challenges we face as society are far too complex for any individual, organisation or sector to solve alone and therefore require radically different ways of working and being together.
In recent years, Yannick has organised, designed, and facilitated large scale multi-stakeholder collaboration processes addressing challenges including race, energy, drugs, health, and sustainable development.
Yannick Wassmer
Laura 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.