ECCC 2025 Pre Conference Offering:
The Art of Hosting
Join Amy for soulful time practicing The Art of Hosting, a methodology based on nature-based emergence theory and systems thinking. This time will be nourishing as well as valuable in offering new insights and skills around authentically hosting self and others. The Art of Hosting unleashes vital, untapped wisdom so that hearts and minds catch fire with imagination, compelling us into new possibility, together. With Amy's training and experience, we will shape our time together, listening and following the desire and energy of the group, with intention to rooting us in shared vision and practice so that we might move forward in a more coherent and inspired way. This is going to be fun, messy, and deep as we dive into places of our hearts and bodies that we might not often explore, opening up exciting potential for our leadership.
Dr. Amy Elizabeth Johnson Howton, is the daughter of Thomas Wendell Johnson, Jr and Elizabeth Goad Stovall Anderson and mama to Kate, Thomas, and Meg. Kentucky is her homeland; she is the daughter of the Ohio River. Inspired by Mother Earth, she founded WildRoots in 2021, in devotion to creating more loving, liberating, and life-affirming stories of who we are and what is possible when we remember. Her work over the past thirty years has focused in the areas of trauma, racial + gender justice, community building, and organizational leadership development. She holds an MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a doctorate in Ecological Counseling. She is a practicing licensed clinical counselor and reiki master, a group facilitator drawing on her lineages including the mystical Christian, Celtic, Shambhala, and Dagara wisdom traditions. In 2021 she published her first book, The Innerground Railroad: A 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul and Spirit, co-authored with Quanita Roberson. She is currently writing her next book, The Queen’s Guide to Fidelity and is facilitating a year-long ancestral healing rite of passage, A Journey Home to Self with elder, Dr. Jimi James.