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As your hosting team, we have been building a field to help hold this work with you. It's a journey that begins months before the first day of our gathering. You'll likely notice it when you walk into the room the first day. You'll be stepping into an experience of being hosted and held in a learning environment where you get to step in and experiment with shared learning and insights. It is an opportunity for you to practice and grow in your leadership, and an honor for us to host you. 

Meet the Hosting Team

Tracy Chaplin

Steward | Tracy is guided by a passion for building capacity for conscious leadership, deep connections and wise action. She guides public, private and nonprofit organizations & communities through complex challenges. She has an affinity for working at the intersection between people, land, and water. For 10 years, Tracy co-created a nonprofit sustainability education center based on permaculture, nonviolence, social entrepreneurship, and community resilience, following a decade in environmental education & leadership development. Most recently Tracy served as Program Director of MSLS (M.Sc. in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability) in Karlskrona Sweden. 

Joe Bartmann

Steward | ​Joe helps resilient groups and communities co-create something better. His work lives where chaordic design, rural life and culture-shifting dialogue run together, and he finds the greatest lessons immersed in the wild - whether it's in the woods and prairies, on the family farm in McCook County SD, in the board room or at town hall. Joe believes we're all deeply connected and that we really can re-learn how to listen to each other to build whole communities that thrive.

Sue Keely

Harvest Host | Sue has a passion for transformative work. She has been introduced to the Art of Hosting through her work as a graphic recorder. How her charts are used to facilitate a meaningful conversation after the meeting is over has always been of particular interest to her. In addition to graphic recording, she uses visuals as a coach and intuitive painting workshop leader to create clarity in her clients. Graphic recording “found her” after years of being a teacher, college administrator, and manager in the world of association management.

Katie Boone

Steward | ​Katie is a community builder and facilitator whose work includes small business development, convening community stakeholders from numerous sectors, and leading groups through creative and strategic processes. Katie combines an entrepreneurial mindset with an understanding of collective impact, giving her the ability to develop innovative strategies for positive and lasting change. Previously, she led the entrepreneurial space Envision Lab, and before that served as Community Impact Director at United Way of the Greater Mankato Area. She is a global steward in the Art of Hosting, stewarding the practices of and methods with people from around the world.

Quanita Roberson

Host | A master practitioner of the Circle method, Quanita isn't new to hosting meaningful conversations, only to the Art of Hosting practice. She is an international teacher, speaker, author, and professional life coach. In 2016 Quanita presented at the NAACP National Convention on Community/Police Relations and served as the Keynote Speaker for The National Diversity Conference in Brazil. Using Integral Theory and the Dagara Medicine Wheel, she blends ancient wisdom with today’s cutting edge discoveries in service to healing individuals, communities, and organizations.

Myron Lowe

Host |  Myron is a leadership consultant and executive coach. He works with organizations and communities to generate the conditions for effective collaboration. He works with leaders to create environments of wise action and collective breakthroughs. His experience includes more than a decade of executive leadership roles in strategic planning, innovation, and collaboration initiatives. He uses systems thinking principles to support holistic emergence and to navigate through difficult issues. Myron is also passionate about convening courageous conversations, inclusion and generative engagement, and authentic leadership as an inner and outer journey.

Jamie Harvie

 Host | Jamie is an innovative systems thinker working at the leading edge of institutional and organizational change with the health care sector, food systems actors and environmental health community. Jamie offers a collaborative leadership style and practice which has resulted in highly successful national and local collaborations. With training in the Art of Hosting and practice with the Work he brings an understanding and experience in both inner and group development work. As an improv coach, actor and community ceramic muralist he is skilled at engaging the imagination and creative self of other to engage their whole person. In his free time he can be found hiking or skiing through the woods.