Mary Alice Arthur
Trainer (Master facilitators & practitioners)
Why they matter for gatherings
Mary Alice Arthur trains master facilitators and practitioners in methods that prioritize inclusive dialogue and collective intelligence. She works with groups to design gatherings that foster collaboration and shared understanding.
Event designers and facilitators should know her for her expertise in adapting structured conversational frameworks to create engaging, participatory experiences. Her methods are widely used in complex group settings requiring creative problem-solving and stakeholder alignment.
She applies World Cafe-Style Fellowship Circles (Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All), Story Harvest, and 25/10 Crowdsourcing within the Art of Hosting lineage.
Here is where those methods trace back to.
Where the methods came from
A qualitative sketch, not a dated history: where the practice started, what it produced, and where it stands today.
Those roots feed the methods below.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
World Cafe-Style Fellowship Circles (Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All)
Story Harvest
25/10 Crowdsourcing
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
How gatherings across every category score
Authority profile
Six pillars, each scored 0 to 100 from published work and independent verification. A research signal, not an endorsement.
Evidence and receipts
Sources
Grounded in: people_merged, console_people.
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