Jose Augusto Barco |
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A Colombian Community Organiser, and Art of Hosting Practitioner. Jose Augusto Barco, is a social entrepreneur based in Bristol, UK and Founder of Community CoLab. He is passionate about people power, social change and social justice, creating spaces for meaningful participation and collaboration at an organisational and grassroots level.
He understands the complexity of working with diverse groups and communities and his experience includes working with local and national & international organisations as a trainer, group process designer, campaigner and consultant. Jose is also a founding director of Community Organisers Ltd, a national body supporting the training and development of community organisers in England. His work is influenced by his creative practices, musical roots and permaculture principles. |
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Paulette is a community organiser, Art of Hosting practitioner with 10+ years of experience, a community development research facilitator and permaculture gardener/trainer.
Her frustrations working across the homeless sector led to a desire to connect locally to her community and ultimately to her becoming a Community Organiser. Paulette believes most systemic and structural issues can be overcome through the power of truly connected and resilient communities Co-founder of Our Yard and Field to Fork workers co-operative Paulette has a keen interest in innovative social businesses and their role within communities to support individual and collective power. |
Paulette Singer
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Karime Hassan
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Karime is a historian, urban planner & economist, Art of Hosting trainer & tech host based in Colombia. As co-founder of Sentido Comun Associados. she designs and hosts workshops, events, trainings and programs online & offline which inspire better results in organisations and communities in Latin America and beyond.
Karime has more than 10 years experience in international cooperation and with the public sector working on entrepreneurship support & development, public engagement innovation and has a focus on developing conceptual models and tools kits for engagement, collaboration and action. |
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Jon is a graphic facilitator/ practitioner and trainer in The Art of Hosting based in Leeds.
He is an associate of Together for Peace where he is facilitating the Poverty Truth Commission, and being a learning partner with local Gypsy and Traveller organisation Leeds GATE. Jon works across the country helping groups and organisations to harvest their learning, and making films for organisations to communicate complex information simply and engage audiences creatively. Jon's background is in campaigning for various NGOs, and in running programmes that create space for activists to reflect, learn and do inner work. He is continually interested in the dynamic between inner well-being and outer change, and sees a powerful potential in the combination of Art of Hosting and Community Organising practices. |
Jon Dorsett
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Georgina Wilson
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Georgina is passionate about helping others to fulfil their potential and to be empowered to realise their vision of positive change in business, community and their personal development.
Social Entrepreneur, Trainer, Teacher, Coach, Public Speaker, Author, Community Engagement, Marketing and Sales are just a few of the talents she offers around her ethos of empowerment. She has delivered training with various organisations in London, some of her favourite courses are in Community Development, Starting your own Enterprise and Discovering your Potential. Her innovation, creativity and ability to think “outside the box” has enabled her to continually work alongside clients to develop strategies for project growth, engagement branding and publicity. |
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Agustín is an organisational management consultant with 20+ years of experience in strategy design, leadership, innovation and cultural transformation with the private sector in Colombia, Chile , Ecuador & The US.
His passion for reinventing management practices fit for the XXI century VUCA environment have led him to become a pioneer in the development of organisations with purpose which see themselves a licing system and start ups working through transformation towards a collaborative leadership approach Agustin has worked with more than 100 organisations from across the private and public sector as well as with international cooperation organisations and has written articles for the London Business School y B Academy. |
Agustin Jimenez
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Zulma Patarroyo
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Zulma is a consultant and a facilitator of participatory processes that brings to her projects the best of her training and experience in the areas of creative facilitation, pedagogics and design.
Zulma holds an MSc in Strategic Leadership for Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology, a MA in Multimedia from London College of Communication, a postgraduate certificate in education from London University and is trained as a creative facilitator and consultant from the Danish social entrepreneurship school kaospilot. With her additional background in pedagogics and experience as a facilitator, Zulma brings to her teaching & facilitation the best blend of effective communication and extensive knowledge base, mixed with her own unique sense of fun. |
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Fausto is a Spaniard based in the UK, he is a member of Civic Wise and has been a Community Organiser for Pembroke House Community Centre in London for a number of years, working with the local community to create positive change through grassroots action. He specialises in designing and hosting conversations that matter to people and organisations.
Throughout his career Fausto has been involved in community work in diverse environments, providing advice, training, personal support, project management and networking with a range of agencies and target groups including the disabled, community residents, homeless, Roma children and subsistence farmers. His experience also includes graphic and video harvesting of events, developing strategic project plans and evaluating tools to continuously improve actions using a participatory action research approach. |
Fausto Llopis Peña
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Latoyah McAllister Jones
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La Toyah is a change management consultant with diverse skills set. She has experience in programme design and delivery, project management, workshop facilitation, community outreach, team development and action research. She has worked in a number of settings, predominately in the homelessness sector but also has experience in criminal justice, restorative practice and action research.
LaToyah is originally from Hackney in London and now based in Bristol, she is a community organiser, and facilitator with significant experience of designing and delivering workshops and learning events focusing on client engagement and using strengths based approaches to stakeholder engagement and team management. |
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Cait is a facilitator and trainer based in Bristol with a background in popular education, research and community organising. She’s passionate about building creative, engaged, connected communities that are a force for positive change.
Cait’s worked with a range of civil society groups to develop their change making skills and take action, most recently as manager of the Quaker’s New Economy project. Cait’s pride and joy is innovative education charity English For Action where she’s worked for the last seven years, supporting migrants and refugees to collectively challenge injustice. Cait has helped to collaboratively develop and run this charity, and has expertise to share around grassroots organisational development, strategy and participatory evaluation processes and meeting facilitation. She’s trained other practitioners across the country in participatory approaches to training and course delivery and in gender awareness. Cait also supports meetings and trainings with graphic recording. Outside work, Cait enjoys reading, meditating and driving off in her van to sit by fires. |
Cait Cross
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