MEET THE TEAM
This Art of Hosting is being co-created with an organizing team that represents some of the diversity and leadership in the community, with sponsor support from The United Church, West Coast Health Network, Alberni District Secondary School, the Alberni Clayoquot Health Network, and School District 70 (Alberni).
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Kelly Poirier - With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr (ECIAD), Kelly has been a practitioner facilitation methods and frameworks through the Art of Hosting and Visual Facilitation at UBC for 13 years. Kelly is deeply influenced by community values and a spirit of innovation; gifting forward a strong sense of ingenuity, imagination, and resilience in all of her work. Constantly inspired by her Tseshaht roots and her grandfather’s background in organizing, advocacy and workers rights, Kelly combines playful courageous curiosity to shift into places and possibilities where courage and vulnerability gift forward connection, potential and community building. Learn more about her at whiteravenconsulting.ca.
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Dawn Foxcroft brings a unique passion for great design, communications and nurturing connections between people to everything she does. Dawn has a Masters of Education in Indigenous Language Revitalization, a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology and a Certificate in Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Along with this, she has trained extensively in facilitation techniques from the Art of Hosting and has supported communications in the area of aquatic resource management for over a decade. Every day Dawn looks forward to engaging with communities, elders, universities, academics, government, small businesses, and industry to build bridges of understanding and deepen connections.
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Amanda Fenton is skilled in designing participatory gatherings using circle-based methods 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 and networks. She is a host and teacher of The Circle Way and the Art of Hosting, and is a co-designer and facilitator with Decolonizing Practices, inviting fellow settlers in the journey of learning and unlearning to transform colonial impacts and decentre whiteness. Learn more about her at amandafenton.com.
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