Keara Cormier-Hill
Keara Cormier-Hill is a dynamic, trauma-informed facilitator with over 15 years of experience creating inclusive, engaging, and strategically grounded learning environments. With a background in sociology, adolescent counseling, and design research, she brings a rare blend of warmth, critical inquiry, and systems thinking to every space she holds. Keara has designed and facilitated sessions with a wide range of participants, from youth in the Dominican Republic reimagining community service, to state leaders evaluating social programs, to health tech teams exploring user insights. She’s skilled at guiding groups through sensitive conversations, especially those involving vulnerable populations, equity, or lived experience. Her trauma-informed approach creates space for honest dialogue and deep reflection, while her ability to connect the dots between individual stories and systems-level change helps participants move from insight to action. Whether she’s helping a team develop a theory of change, leading a participatory design sprint, or facilitating a multi-stakeholder strategy retreat, Keara’s style is collaborative, friendly, and highly adaptive. She’s able to meet people where they are while gently pushing them to think bigger.She is also the founder of The South Design Research Studio, where she leads regionalco-design and research projects across the American South, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Carlos Gaviria
Carlos Gaviria has more than 25 years of experience facilitating group processes with individual contributors, middle and senior management. He has a lot of experience and learning in Experiential Education, Team Coaching, Consultative Sales, Strategic Planning and Leadership, in Colombia, Spain, Panama and Venezuela, creating spaces for learning and personal growth. Carlos has been Director of Campamento La Llanada for more than 20 years exercising management roles, season planning, development of soft skills in children and young people between 6 and 18 years of age. He also served in the Venezuelan Camp Association. He was involved in the design process in the Peace Camps in Colombia, promoted by the National Government of Colombia together with the Former President-Juan Manuel Santos. Carlos used to be a pharmaceutical consultant. He is bilingual, with specialization in Organizational Development and Certification as a Team Coach. Carlos is a person guided by values, he is passionate about continuous learning and superior principles that drive transformation and excellence at a personal and organizational level. Carlos is convinced that to generate awareness in work teams, learning must be generated based on their own experiences and thanks to the disciplined practice of routines, the desired habits are generated.
Anamaria Aristizabal
Anamaria Aristizabal is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), Facilitator, Author, and Change Agent. She is the founder of Re-Vision Academy, which offers a new approach to purpose, leadership, and human development. She also works with New Ventures West, a world class coaching school, as a coach and coach trainer. She is an Art of Hosting practitioner and trainer, with extensive experience designing and facilitating powerful learning journeys for different groups.
Hector Aristizabal
Hector was born and raised in Medellín, Colombia where he worked as a therapist and as a theater actor-director until he was forced into exile due to persecution for his human rights activism. In the US, he worked as a therapist and developed original plays with immigrants, torture survivors, incarcerated youth, gang members, AIDS/HIV infected people and people in Hospice care. In the year 2000, he founded ImaginAction to help people tap the transformative power of theater in programs throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa, The Middle East and many Asian countries. He has worked mostly in war-torn and post conflict zones training psicosocial teams and using theater as a laboratory to explore alternatives to conflict and as a path to design healing rituals. In 2017, he decided to return to his native country to work in the reconciliation process inspired by the peace agreement between the FARC guerrilla and the Colombian government. With the project Reconectando, www.reconectando.org he is currently accompanying the truth commission using deep ecology, theater and ritual to work with victims and ex-combatants in the complex task of clarifying the truth, creating spaces for reconciliation and imagining the conditions for the no repetition of the violence. Hector was honored with the prestigious Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre and he is co-author with Diane Lefer of The Blessing Next to the Wound: A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation.