Mansi walks as a warrior of the heart, weaving her Sikh heritage, eco-feminist values, and environmental & design artistry into co-creating participatory spaces that reclaim wholeness - where the unseen and unheard are invited to lead. From practicing architecture in Delhi to designing and hosting meaningful conversations globally (now based in The Hague, Netherlands), she moves with ease between boardrooms & circles, policy & poetry, science & spirit. Mansi has worked within several complex institutions - the United Nations, European Union, international NGOs, business, academia - listening, sensing and turning awareness into movement and possibility. An environmentalist since the age of four, a visceral sense of climate urgency in 2008 led her to unlearn, relearn and re-imagine how change can happen. For more than 15 years she has supported leaders, teams and communities to slow down, see the whole, and take wiser collective steps. Through participatory leadership in complexity, systems thinking, and emergent process design, she helps people build trust, bridge divides, and turn difficult conversations into shared direction. In all her roles - host & speaker, artist, sense-maker - Mansi brings humour, colour, yoga, stories and generous energy into every space she holds and stewards.

Pooja lives and breathes stories, and can almost always be found in her local library immersed in the wor(l)ds of Ursula K Le Guin. She studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and has worked at the nexus of climate policy, campaigns, and research since 2020. Currently, she coordinates projects at The Emergence Network (ten), a translocal network of social artists imagining new ways of being and relating in times of crises. She also works with Kalpavriksh as editor and curator of Radical Ecological Democracy, a web journal featuring stories of alternatives to extractive and exploitative structures. Pooja attended her first Art of Hosting training in 2024 in Bengaluru, which fuelled her curiosity to nurture participatory processes and dialogue in collectives working at the intersection of climate, social, and cultural change. Her life work finds expression in weaving webs of care, running long distances, and seeding practices for multispecies liberatory futures. 

Marishia is an ecologist by education and a community facilitator by training. She is currently project coordinator at the Ecological Restoration Alliance - India. She is passionate about exploring the role that the personal, interpersonal and systemic play in the intersectional nature of challenges we face today - and their solutions, with and by communities. A curious mind at heart, Marishia loves designing and asking simple but powerful questions. Her journey has led her to facilitation and leadership building, where she has been trained in the Art of Hosting & Harvesting conversations that matter and Participatory Leadership by Circle Wallas. She is also trained in tools used in conscious communication practice and systems thinking. She is Pachamama living earth community action trainer in training and a facilitator at the India EcoJam. She actively applies these tools to foster relationships and hold conversations in advocacy, policy, citizen science, community nurturing, intersectional conservation action and social justice spaces. Outside of work, you’ll find Marishia slowing down to enjoy the outdoors with her two dogs, tending to her garden, or wandering through forests, beaches and tide pools near her home. She strongly believes in the magic of connecting with the earth. She also loves playing the ukulele, puzzling, woodworking, strategic board games, and stargazing.