THE HOSTING TEAM: EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY
Chris Corrigan is a teacher and facilitator of strategic conversations and a practitioner of the Art of Hosting whose work invites collective intelligence and collective leadership to be activated in the service of complex challenges. Chris has worked locally and internationally in a huge variety of contexts including social services, indigenous community development, immigration and refugee issues, business, government, food systems and education. He has written and contributed to influential books on the role of participatory processes in activating new forms of leadership and community development. His well known weblog, Parking Lot, has charted his own learning in the field since 2002. He specializes in Open Space Technology, and design for large scale initiatives to work in high levels of complexity. He is a poet and a musician. www.chriscorrigan.com
Teresa Posakony works with organizations and communities who are seeking to put to work the ineffable qualities of community to bring high levels of effective engagement, creative design and deep resilience to work. She was a long time member of the Berkana Institute, worked 13 years in high tech doing leadership and organizational development, and now12 years deeply engaged in hosting process in a breadth of non-profit organizations and community driven efforts. www.emergingwisdom.net
Tenneson Woolf is a facilitator, workshop leader, speaker, and writer. He designs and lead meetings in participative formats. To help people be smart together. To get people interacting with each other — learning together, building relationships, and focused on projects. To get deeper to the heart of what matters. From strategic visioning with boards to large conference design. He is a steward in the Art of Hosting community of practitioners. Living systems, self-organization, and emergence inspire his work. www.tennesonwoolf.com
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Caitlin Frost is a skilled facilitator and coach working with individuals and groups worldwide to open more space for possibility in themselves, their teams, organizations and communities. Her coaching work focuses on transforming limiting beliefs and working with fear, conflict and the places we get stuck; shifting patterns and connecting to our capacity for wise, clear action in the face of uncertainty, challenge and change. She is a deep practitioner and Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, and hosts both leadership and personal retreats across North America in both community and corporate spaces. She is Steward in the Art of Hosting international community of practice, core faculty in the innovative Leadership 2020 Program and a partner in Harvest Moon Consultants. Caitlin is also a gifted improviser and uses play and improvisational theatre in her work with leadership coaching. www.caitlinfrost.ca
Amanda Fenton worked in the co-operative sector for nearly seventeen years with thirteen of them in Human Resources, including HR business partner consulting, leadership and organizational development, change projects and collaborative strategic planning processes. She is skilled in designing and facilitating participatory gatherings using circle-based methodologies such as The Circle Way, Open Space Technology, World Cafe, Collective Story Harvest and others to host and harvest conversations for thoughtful change, working with non-profits, churches, schools and other organizations. She is a host and teacher of the Circle Way and enjoys integrating different modes such as dialogue, improv, movement and graphic facilitation to host space with life and energy. www.amandafenton.com
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