Meet the Hosting Team
This Art of Hosting training
is offered by
Tracy Chaplin | Duluth MN
Passionate about deeply inclusive, collaborative leadership, Tracy has spent 20+ years facilitating organizational and systemic change processes using what she calls “living systems leadership”. She served as Director of the Master’s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability in Sweden, trained over 20 organizations in the Twin Ports in strategic sustainability planning, spent a decade building a non-profit sustainability education center on a 212-acre regenerative farm in Michigan, and now works with UMN Extension’s Northeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships. Tracy serves as a global AoH steward, leading Art of Hosting trainings in Sweden, Japan, Vietnam, Europe, and the US, and offers executive coaching to leaders ready to face the complexity of today’s rapid pace of change. Tracy brings stories from lived experience along with her passion for teaching and mentoring emerging leaders. She can often be found weaving baskets, dabbling in photography, writing, and hanging out with her Bernese Mountain Dog.
Marcela Sotela Odor | San José, Costa Rica
Marcela has spent her career building bridges between perspectives and creating spaces that facilitate conversations around cross-sector collaboration, conflict resolution, social justice, and community building. She is a chemical engineer with a Master’s degree in Public Policy, blending her passion and skills to promote systemic change. As an experienced facilitator focusing on participatory leadership practices and visual language, she works and collaborates with agencies and organizations in Europe, Latin America, USA and Canada. Marcela serves as a global steward of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter.
Joe Bartmann | South Dakota
Joe Bartmann is a rural community shaper, facilitator, nonprofit leader, hiker, girl dad, and worm farmer. He leads a community development nonprofit, combining his passion for rural economic and community development with his deep experience in community building, systems thinking, group processes, leadership, and innovation. He has practiced in the Art of Hosting community for 18 years, using this approach in his daily work. He experiments deeply with evolutionary organizational operating structures and brings what he has learned into AoH trainings. Joe and his family live in a town of 480 people in South Dakota.
Viola Tschendel Clark | Germany, Duluth MN
Viola Clark is a graphic facilitator and recorder based in Duluth, Minnesota, specializing in participatory leadership and strategic outcome harvesting. She utilizes real-time graphic recording, graphic facilitation, and other engaging documentation methods to support and capture the dynamics, insights, and learning that emerge during complex conversations.
By combining digital and paper-based visual tools, engagement design, creative data collection, and collective sense-making, her work transforms moments of inquiry and group learning into meaningful, tangible artifacts. Viola approaches strategic harvesting as an intentional part of a larger process focused on generating, collecting, and illustrating insights that inform action and contribute to wiser, more effective outcomes.
Website: www.violaclark.com
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