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The Team
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, humour, stories, yoga, creative inspirations & a lot of colourful energy.
As 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 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.
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Having grown up with strong family/cultural values around social justice, equality and 'sewa' (service), Mansi's core being is that of a warrior of the heart - from her heritage (Sikh warriors) as well as practice (yoga ).
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 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
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.
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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.
Laura Grassi
Juliette Westerink is a group facilitator, breathwork coach, and trainer at high schools, where she supports kids to use their talents and energy for social change. With a conservative and international upbringing, and an idealistic heart, Juliette has found herself in diverse groups with varied viewpoints. These experiences have strengthened her drive in creating spaces in which we can find shared understanding.
She is a student of Theory U, Active Hope, and Art of Hosting facilitation methodologies. With her origins rooted in England and her upbringing primarily in the Netherlands, she feels called to ‘re-learn’ how to live in deep connection and harmony with the Earth, oneself, each other and our communities.