MYRIAM LOESCHEN
Expert Facilitator.
Thinking Partner.
Certified Coach.
Cultural Alchemist.
Myriam (she/her) is a community-builder and fierce advocate for human connection. She 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.
Myriam is here because she knows this work to be deeply healing and transformative. She is dedicated to holding courageous and resilient space where people can show up with their imperfect, human selves and be seen stand/rise in their wholeness.
Myriam is a Haitian woman, partner, mother, and artist living in Long Beach, CA. As often as possible, she turns to acrylic painting, nourishing her beloveds, immersing herself in poetry, and walking alongside the ocean to keep rooted in presence.
SARAH GREENMAN
Expert Facilitator.
Compassionate Guide.
Change Agent.
Creative Alchemist.
Sarah (she/they) is an artist, storyteller, and facilitator. Their work is rooted in a core framework of justice, radical inclusion, creativity, and right-relationship. Sarah is a curious and strategic facilitator who weaves joy, story, connection, and purpose into all of their community building work.
Sarah has experience as a frontline staff member, educator, outreach director, birth worker, continuity care specialist, project manager, and nonprofit operations director. Their work as a birth and death doula is particularly powerful when applied to groups interested in crossing transformative thresholds.
Sarah holds a BA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Gender Studies from Mills College and is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory Theatre. Sarah serves as Executive Director of the American Leadership Forum of Oregon, and is also a Certified Narrative4 Facilitator, and a Certified Catalyst Leader & Facilitator. Sarah serves on multiple boards working as a grassroots community organizer.
Sarah is a white, cis, queer, able-bodied, woman of size, with Celtic ancestry and descends from Scottish stone masons, Irish laundresses, and midwestern homesteaders. Sarah lives in rural Eastern Oregon on the stolen traditional lands of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce). When not working with Joy Facilitation, Sarah can be found painting and writing in their studio or working on the harvest crew at a local orchard.
“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change and there is hope.” ― bell hooks
