Phil Stoesz (he/him) is the Design Expert and Facilitator for the University Design Institute - making it easier for groups of people to do complex and sometimes difficult things. Phil's work in process design looks many ways: guiding conversations about purpose, untangling a years-old challenge, synthesizing and organizing large amounts of information, facilitating a team through co-designing something, and countless others moments of growth, change, or development groups of people go through. He has worked with people from Blue Origin, USA Today, the Jane Goodall Institute, the University of Rwanda, Mayo Clinic, Google, the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Endless Network, and people all across the Arizona State University landscape.
He is a Certified Critical Response Process (CRP) Facilitator and Trainer and co-leads and organizes the CRP certification program.
Phil's work is grounded in service, imagination and meaning-making; values that come from his Mennonite heritage and queer community. He holds an M.F.A in Theatre Directing from Arizona State University and has an eclectic teaching and artistic history including touring as a Shakespearean performer, devising theatre as an Artist-in-Residence for an Astrobiology lab, designing sets and lighting for college theatre, teaching project-based learning for the Interplanetary Initiative, directing a research study on religion and outer space, project managing VR design, teaching sexual education, co-directing an art project on coming-of-age stories, directing storytelling podcasts, and maintaining a practice of visual art making and poetry.
Nearly everything Phil does is the result of knowledge that has been passed on to him through the practices of his ancestry and the mentors and collaborators who continue to grace his life.