RETURN ROOTED

Myriam Loeschen (she/her) is a facilitator, community-builder and fierce advocate for human connection. She is the founder / lead consultant for Joy Facilitation LLC. Myriam is serving as a guide, facilitator, and space holder for Return Rooted. Myriam utilizes her background in the SATIR therapy model, Catalyst Leadership frameworks, and Anti-Racist Training to catalyze resilient conversations around issues that matter — race, humanity, and self-awareness. Over the last decade, Myriam has honed her skills in strengthening thriving organizational cultures, guiding difficult dialogues (with ourselves and each other), and supporting the cultivation of self-leadership grounded in collective care.

Sarah Greenman (she/they) is an artist, author, facilitator, birth-worker, and executive director. Sarah is serving as a guide, facilitator, and space holder for Return Rooted. Her work is steeped in the Celtic imagination and informed by socially engaged movements for change. Sarah is rooted in a core framework of joy, justice, inclusion, right-relationship, and anti-racist practice. Sarah is an intuitive contractor, tapping on the walls of our lived experience to find weight-bearing beams of truth on which we may build our own work. She is a process junkie, a practical optimist, an eco-spiritualist, and a creative midwife. She has deep experience as a nonprofit leader, community organizer, project manager, facilitator, storyteller, and has served in a wide range of creative and administrative roles. She is also the author of The Creative Alchemy Cycle: Activate Your Creativity to Wake Up and Get Free.

Gretchen Krampf (she/her) is a weaver, a leader, and catalyst for change. As a Puget Sound local, Gretchen is serving as co-host and space holder for Return Rooted. Gretchen values working with individuals, organizations and communities as they explore the stories that they are living in and envision the stories they want to live into. As a “story catcher” who is holding space, she knows the power that presence brings, in service to one finding their way to inner guidance.

A longtime Circle Way practitioner, Gretchen brings Council practices to her work with groups. She is a seasoned process consultant with a Master’s Degree in Organization Development (American University) and a professionally certified coach (Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership), spending the past twenty-five years working with creatives, entrepreneurs, corporate, nonprofit and community leaders who want to live and lead inspiring lives. She holds facilitation as her calling and her craft and hosting as an essential leadership skill.