Hosting / Facilitating Team
Each person on this hosting team comes with 20+ years of experience and commitment to community organizing. Some of us come from faith traditions. Some of us from professional fields of dialogue and leading change. We each bring skills that complement each other. We each hold this work as sacred.
Teresa Posakony (www.emergingwisdom.net) has worked extensively with faith communities and non-profits to build cultures of creativity, authentic relationship, social change, and prophetic alignment. In Washington State she's been engaged in a 12 year social change effort to build healthy and resilient communities while reducing trauma generation to generation. This effort integrates the latest in neurobiology, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resilience -- as well as powerful efforts to align a new paradigm of policy, practice, and community-led change. She is an avid student of healing and wholeness, living systems, and life.
Andrew Himes (www.ba4f.org) was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International, and is now co-director of the Business Alliance for the Future, a global network of business networks and associations focused on elevating the leadership of business in creating a just, peaceful, sustainable, and compassionate world. He authored a book of the history of Christian fundamentalism, and has led and facilitated meetings around the world to accelerate the Compassionate Cities movement.
Erin Gilmore (www.lovelanducc.org) is a pastor in the United Church of Christ and currently serves the First Congregational Church in Loveland, CO. She is passionate about community and hosting space where people are able to come as they are and become more of who they are meant to be. Erin works at the local and regional level of the church designing and facilitating group process for people seeking new ways of engaging and working in the world.
Rev. Bob Thompson (www.interfaithci.org) was an American Baptist minister for 37 years, leading the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois for 30 years in an influential ministry focused on issues such as homelessness, racial reconciliation and advocacy for LGBT rights. A teacher, author, and inspirational leader, he is Chair Emeritus of the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Tenneson Woolf (www.tennesonwoolf.com) is a facilitator, workshop leader, speaker, and writer. He designs and leads meetings in participative formats. To help people be smart together. To get people interacting with each other — learning together, building relationships, and focused on projects. From strategic visioning with boards to large conference design. He has worked extensively with faith communities over the last five years, including co-facilitating a General Assembly and Elections Assembly for Franciscan Sisters, and supporting a three year engagement with Church and Community Ministries of the United Methodist Church. Tenneson is a long time steward and practitioner of the Art of Hosting. Living systems, self-organization, and emergence inspire his work.
Each person on this hosting team comes with 20+ years of experience and commitment to community organizing. Some of us come from faith traditions. Some of us from professional fields of dialogue and leading change. We each bring skills that complement each other. We each hold this work as sacred.
Teresa Posakony (www.emergingwisdom.net) has worked extensively with faith communities and non-profits to build cultures of creativity, authentic relationship, social change, and prophetic alignment. In Washington State she's been engaged in a 12 year social change effort to build healthy and resilient communities while reducing trauma generation to generation. This effort integrates the latest in neurobiology, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resilience -- as well as powerful efforts to align a new paradigm of policy, practice, and community-led change. She is an avid student of healing and wholeness, living systems, and life.
Andrew Himes (www.ba4f.org) was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International, and is now co-director of the Business Alliance for the Future, a global network of business networks and associations focused on elevating the leadership of business in creating a just, peaceful, sustainable, and compassionate world. He authored a book of the history of Christian fundamentalism, and has led and facilitated meetings around the world to accelerate the Compassionate Cities movement.
Erin Gilmore (www.lovelanducc.org) is a pastor in the United Church of Christ and currently serves the First Congregational Church in Loveland, CO. She is passionate about community and hosting space where people are able to come as they are and become more of who they are meant to be. Erin works at the local and regional level of the church designing and facilitating group process for people seeking new ways of engaging and working in the world.
Rev. Bob Thompson (www.interfaithci.org) was an American Baptist minister for 37 years, leading the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois for 30 years in an influential ministry focused on issues such as homelessness, racial reconciliation and advocacy for LGBT rights. A teacher, author, and inspirational leader, he is Chair Emeritus of the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Tenneson Woolf (www.tennesonwoolf.com) is a facilitator, workshop leader, speaker, and writer. He designs and leads meetings in participative formats. To help people be smart together. To get people interacting with each other — learning together, building relationships, and focused on projects. From strategic visioning with boards to large conference design. He has worked extensively with faith communities over the last five years, including co-facilitating a General Assembly and Elections Assembly for Franciscan Sisters, and supporting a three year engagement with Church and Community Ministries of the United Methodist Church. Tenneson is a long time steward and practitioner of the Art of Hosting. Living systems, self-organization, and emergence inspire his work.
