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Welcome to the Art of Hosting online Community

Welcome to the Art of Hosting Online Community Space!

This is a space for Art of Hosting practitioners around the world, created for and with you. We depend on your input and energy to make this a valuable place to keep coming back to. It is both a connection place and a place where you can deepen your practice by

  • Finding and posting great resources – we have a library of videos under Media, written materials under Resources
  • Asking questions, starting conversations and sharing experiences and stories – Conversations is the place for this
  • Starting or joining a group with a focus – we have local, regional and language Groups, groups from specific trainings, as well a wide variety of special interest groups
  • Posting a notice of your upcoming AoH Events in the community calendar
  • Creating your own page and harvesting your experience by writing a blog

We value conversations that matter. If you’re new to the Art of Hosting or to the idea of an online Community of Practice, please have a look at the etiquette guiding our online space. If you need technical support with using this Ning, check the FAQ page, which has detailed instructions. Please help us to keep this site intentional by respecting that it is not an open social networking site or the place to promote yourself or activities not linked with the Art of Hosting.

There are plenty of great people, great initiatives and great resources to explore here – welcome!


Latest Activity

Amy Kay Watson posted a blog post

Art of Developing Meaningful Conversations at 1st UU Columbus

On the evening of May 19, members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus gathered with friends to encounter "The Art of Developing Meaningful Conversations," the name given to the Art of Hosting at the church.  (The name was selected by the first sponsoring body, the Leadership Development Committee, in order to…See More
16 hours ago
Anne Christine Hagedorn and Lama Juma are now friends
yesterday
Amber Vriends updated their profile
Friday
David Reis joined Lama Juma's group
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Scandinavian Community of Practice

This is where we will coordinate and harvest from Practitioners Dojos and Learning Villages around Scandinavia to learn with other AoH practitioners.  Dojo: any place of practice Practitioners Dojo: a ongoing place for practitioners to practice, get inspired, hone our skills, share our learnings, collaborate and prepare to serve people and planet at larger scale. Learning Village: longer hosted gatherings where we co-learn and co-create. Read more info here: Sign up to host a session here:…See More
Friday
David Reis and Valentina Catena are now friends
Friday
Philip Jackson posted a photo
Thursday
Philip Jackson joined Mary Alice Arthur's group
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AoH Australia

Fantastic folks who are interested in conversations that matter and based in Australia.
Thursday
Ursula Hillbrand replied to Ria Baeck's discussion 'Passion for regular Pro Action Café's'
"We have a regular Pro action Café every two months in the Bregenzer Salon. Topics are brought in by the participants, advertising is open. We develop something like "Salon Hosting", which means to go relaxed all the way, including…"
Thursday

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Passion for regular Pro Action Café's 11 Replies

Sept.'11 I received an email from Natasha Dalmia - who I never met or I never heard of before - with 'a basket of flowers that says Thank You'. This is what she wrote:Dear Ria, Rainer, Hi, this is…Continue

Tags: Dalmia, Singapore, Natasha, café, action

Started by Ria Baeck in Ideas and passions. Last reply by Ursula Hillbrand on Thursday.

An idea to explain Art of Hosting training to those who don't know the training.

 Thank you very much for understanding for my sending this to you a few times in other ways.-------------------------------------------Hi, beautiful Art of Hosting peopleHow are you?Hope you are…Continue

Started by Yurie Makihara in Ideas and passions on Thursday.

Kids, teens, tweens in World Café?

again from the AoH emaillist:
Mates,You may have seen my question below with the questions our team is planning to ask in a church session.  While we are offering child care for the
very young, we'd…Continue

Tags: tweens, teens, kids, youth

Started by Ria Baeck in Stories from Hosting Experiences on Thursday.

Pro Action Café - different wording for 2nd question? (and for Apprec.Inquiry) 1 Reply

An inspiring conversation, opened by Chris Corrigan:Hi all. A question for those of you who hold the deep design pattern of Pro Action Cafe... For the second question - what is missing? -…Continue

Tags: Appreciative, Inquiry, roots, cafe, action

Started by Ria Baeck in Exciting New Developments. Last reply by Ria Baeck on Thursday.

Blog Posts

Art of Developing Meaningful Conversations at 1st UU Columbus

On the evening of May 19, members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus gathered with friends to encounter "The Art of Developing Meaningful Conversations," the name given to the Art of Hosting at the church.  (The name was selected by the first sponsoring body, the Leadership Development…

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Posted by Amy Kay Watson on May 20, 2012 at 5:30am

Cultivating Resilience

Last week I was at an inspiring meeting in the Santa Cruz Mountains.  A dozen of us gathered from different parts of the US to continue an exploration of common ground.  There's a confluence happening.  Especially over the last decade people have been working with different words to explore the same questions: How do we create healthy communities?  Communities where happiness is pursued, not  consumption.  Communities where people live with the graceful bounty of this planet rather than…

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Posted by Bob Stilger on April 7, 2012 at 11:55am

 
 
 

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