ART OF HOSTING
NETHERLANDS
MEET THE TEAM
Stewarding the Field Team
Mansi (she/her) 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 & processes in Europe, based in The Hague. 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 4, Mansi followed that thread and worked across several urban environmental disciplines in various international organisations & NGOs including United Nations, European Union, CARE-India. In 2008, a visceral sense of climate urgency led her to reorient, unlearn, relearn, stepping into her calling. The past 15 years, her focus has been participatory leadership & systems change: building capacities, collaboration & amplifying collective impact. Mansi brings a deep connection to life, infusing humor, stories, creativity, warm hugs - wrapped in a colourful energy.
An international speaker, artist-sensemaker, & process design geek, Mansi loves creating participatory spaces where people connect, transform, and bring bold ideas to life.
Mansi Jasuja ✨ मानसी जसूजा
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.
Laura Grassi
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
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.
Maria Scordialos
We are the fire,
each a piece of wood,
sparking together,
strong and sustaining.
Not bound by rank,
we honor the sacred,
guiding others
and ourselves.
Stewards hold the space
for not knowing,
rooted in wisdom,
grounded in trust.
Hosts tend the flame,
attuning to moments,
gathering insights,
harvesting light.
As apprentices,
we step into learning,
exploring edges,
growing our craft.
Elders, simply being,
offer presence,
whispering gently,
"This too shall pass."