Mary Alice Arthur
Mary Alice is a Story Activist working with story in service of positive systemic shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues. In plain speak, she creates spaces where the right story can take people into a flourishing future. She is an internationally recognised process host, building capacity for people to host and harvest their own stories and the stories that surround them in the systems they live and work in. She is inspired to work with large and small systemic stories that hold keys for a more generative future. She co-hosts the Story The Future international conversation field on story and its impact on the world. Mary Alice is a sought after process host and teaches participatory process all over the world as an international steward of the Art of Hosting. She is a life-long intentional nomad and on the way has been gathering wit and wisdom from the world in the form of stories, mythologies, teachings and learnings, which weave their way into her life and work. She has worked as a consultant all over the world. Her work has the intention of witnessing and supporting authentic mastery.
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Toke Paludan Møller
Toke has been pioneering the fields of sustainable entrepreneurship, participatory leadership, educational renewal, and social responsibility since the early 1970s. Toke one of the the co-founder of The Art of Hosting, The Flow Game, and The Practicing for Peace dojo – all in service of a kinder, more humane leadership and citizenship for future of people and planet. He has served as the chair of Danish Entrepreneurs Association and worked as a long-time international professional conference organiser and process host. He is co-founder, with Monica Nissén, of InterChange- a for-more-than-profit training and process consulting company based in Denmark. Toke and Monica have worked with the Danish educational system, international NGOs, governmental institutions, private companies, international networks in all the continents - from villages in Africa, to universities in Europe, USA and Australia. For years he has supported younger as well as more seasoned leaders from their personal leadership to hosting organisational transformations including initiating Participatory Leadership practises in to the European Commission / ministries and institutions as well as introducing these practices in Scotland since 2013. Toke strives to inspire himself and others to practice peaceful coexistence and wellbeing for All - regardless of circumstance.
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Rowan Simonsen
Rowan is driven by a call to build community on a local, regional and global level, focussing on resilience, creativity and critical relationships. He is exploring how technology can help connect and strengthen transformative learning spaces and has an ongoing commitment to host conversations that matter in order to help people and organizations learn and grow.
Rowan is inspired to leverage the potential of systems innovation and a holistic understanding of the society we in. He practice Aikido and stewards the Warrior of the Heart Dojo as part of is developing practices for engaging conflict in more creative ways and creating a culture of peace. Rowan has worked as an experiential educator, with strategic sustainability, leadership development and facilitation of participatory processes since 2006. He has been lucky to work within the public and private sector as well as with civil society organizations across Europe, West Africa and the Americas. |
Paul Messer
Trained as an industrial designer. Paul applies design thinking to everyday life. Paul is our very own ninja on organizational culture and service design innovation. As a graphic facilitator and expert in visual thinking, Paul creates on the spot visual maps to support group innovation and co-design. Creator of Visual Thinking Lab workshops and coaching to support visual thinking in working in complexity and business strategy.
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Martin Taylor
Martin is an experienced People and Organisational Development practitioner with a background in management and leadership roles in public services and further and higher education sectors. One constant throughout his career journey has been an active involvement in facilitating learning for groups and working with complexity. Martin is appreciated for incorporating innovative approaches to enable self-managed learning and self-organising approaches to development and growth. Martin is an advocate of dialogic approaches to people development, community building and regeneration, and as a catalyst for realising impactful organisational change.
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Gordon Carmichael
Gordon has worked in public service for forty years and has been embracing his passion for Participatory Leadership in Primary Health Care for the last decade. An experienced practitioner, he is dedicated to the practice of the Art of Hosting and committed to helping others keen to build their capacity through education and practice.
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Andy Lippok
Andy gained considerable experience and skills from a career in HR and Project management, Systems Thinking interventions, training and coaching, and extensive contracting in different roles in many organisations and sectors, helping people and organisations make life and work meaningful, through the practices of self-management, wholeness, evolutionary purpose, and the art of participatory leadership and democracy; with the result that people and organisations become rich, vibrant, and meaningful – helping them all on the path to being brilliant!
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Sandy Brunton
Sandy was born and brought up on the Isle of Mull and trained as a boat builder. He and his wife returned to Mull in 1986, where they reopened the village shop in Fionnphort and raised a family of three. After 25 busy years, they sold the shop in 2011. Sandy was and continues to be completely immersed in community life and is involved in numerous projects and groups on and off the island. He is convenor of Mull and Iona Community Trust and chair of Development Trust Association Scotland. Since selling the shop, he has committed his time to working with community groups, social enterprises and other organisations around the country.
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Pamela Galbraith
Since graduating from the RSAMD (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama – now called the Royal Conservatoire Scotland ) in 1979, Pamela was interested in using the Arts in Community Work to address local concerns and therefore attended Moray House College in Edinburgh to do a Post Graduate Course in Community Work after a few years of doing some theatre work in the North East of Scotland. She then worked in community development projects using the arts for 23 years in the Highlands and is still doing so today.
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Dr Gemma Bone Dodds
Gemma is an innovation and systems change specialist who concentrates on economic transformation for people and planet. She is founder and director of All In Agency, a research and systems change agency dedicated to transforming the economy to serve the needs of society and the environment. Gemma has a PhD in diverse economies, which she carried out in collaboration with the Finance Innovation Lab between 2012 and 2016. This is where she discovered the Art of Hosting and completed her initial training in Sweden in 2013. Gemma believes that this training and the practice she has engaged in since then has the greatest potential to help us create a better world. Gemma has hosted conversations with a range of diverse groups, with regulators and finance ceo's, to designing 3 hour design sprints for local authorities, community groups and funders and planning longer-term participatory processes to tackle the climate emergency.
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Emma Cooper
Emma has worked with marginalised communities across the UK and developed a passion for ensuring people’s voices are heard. Following her degree in Psychology, Emma was an advocate for people living with mental health problems in the community in one of the most deprived areas of the UK. She moved onto working with young people, often at times of crisis, before becoming the CEO of Adventure Unlimited, a charity utilising the power of nature and outdoor pursuits to change people’s lives. In 2011, Emma moved up to the Isle of Bute in Scotland to develop the island’s community-owned forest developing a strong commitment to and love of rural Scotland. She became CEO of Scottish Rural Action in 2014, leading three successful Scottish Rural Parliament’s, and developing a strong voice for rural Scotland. Most recently, Emma has been travelling in Europe, learning about different cultures and lifestyles, whilst also working as a freelance trainer, facilitator and coach. Emma gained a master’s degree in Public Administration in 2011 and is currently working towards the completion of an ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring qualification.
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Jane Brunton
Jane has many years' experience in supporting businesses, charities, community interest companies and community groups by providing them with clerical & financial administrative support and liaising with groups & individuals. She is married to Sandy and is very involved with community activities at their home on the Isle of Mull, where she is a Gaelic teacher, volunteer First Responder and Coastguard Rescue Officer and plays the tenor drum in the local pipe band.
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