I am a long time practitioner of participatory processes.  For many years, I worked in a healthcare organization where we were collectively learning how to collaborate without  patterns of hierarchy and power-over.  

After my professional career, I spent eight years as a global nomad, traveling where I was invited and where I could be of service, usually as a host and steward of the Art of Hosting.  

The course of my journey was radically changed by Covid as I was called from the global into a local focus on stewarding a piece of remote forest land, and the stewarding of new grandchildren.  

Recently, I am grateful for a rhythm that combines my global and local stewarding as I live alone with the trees for most of the year. and travel to support global hosting practitioners the rest.  The common denominator in all of this is the practice of learning to live and work in support of life and consciousness.  I am excited to return to Vietnam and be in this learning with you.

Trang Nguyen studied Software Engineering and Sustainability Leadership and has worked in diverse sectors including technology, marketing, education, human rights and organisational development.

She has 5 years of experience working with factory owners, managers and workers in Vietnam, co-creating space for collaboration and dialogue in their work processes, where people can feel safe to trust, prototype and make meaningful decisions on behalf of the whole. She also works with other international organisations and corporations in Vietnam who want to incorporate co-creation and self-organisation in their structures. Her focus has been on how to nurture community wellbeing and self-organization in workplaces.

Most recently, Trang started building a living community on a mountain land in Vietnam with her friends, creating the systemic changes she wishes to see, and inviting new learnings that allow her to serve at the intersection of corporates and community.

Linh learned of the Art of Hosting in 2016, when he helped organize the first training in Vietnam. Since then he has been an active participant of the field, bringing the practice to universities, companies, and organizations. He is a founding member of Đom Đóm Lab, a group of illuminators with the mission to experiment and share the practices of self-organization.

Ellie grows up in a neighborhood where people not only know each other, but also their neighbors’ parents, children, even the in-laws. The relationship, support and communication inspire her to work in fields where she can nurture those elements. When she encountered AoH in 2016, she found the mindset and the practices that help her become a better person, a better contributor to the work and to her community.
She is bringing these practices to teams and organizations through her work in the WE program and Đom đóm lab. She is also a flow game host, a ukulele practitioner and a mother of a 1-year-old and 12 stuffed animals.

Nam has always been drawn to the power of conversations that open up possibilities for change. As a conversational space holder, Nam believes in well-hosted conversation as an intersection of personal growth, deep collaboration and satisfying human relationships.

Nam has been an active practitioner and community advocate for The Circle Way process alongside his brothers and sisters in Tròn Lành Network. Nam is also a dialogue facilitator and a certified master practitioner at The Centre for Holding Space.

A practitioner and is currently engaged in several areas of practice, such as Project Management, Mindfulness, Instructional Design (ID), The Circle Way method, retrospective/self reflection practice, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Art of Hosting and Harvesting the Conversations that Matter (AoH). I’m also exploring Visual Facilitation.

My goal is to integrate these practices into my main role – Project Manager and to support the community/ organization that learns, fostering growth and inspiring others around me.

Khuyen advocates for meaningful conversations that embrace collaboration to achieve something greater than any single stakeholder does alone.

As a mediator and dialogue facilitator, Khuyen’s expertise is nurtured by the Art of Hosting (AoH). She calls for this training to spread out AoH spirits and techniques to whom working with multi-stakeholders in the context of complexity and well-collaboration is needed.