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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

Profile IconFEUGA, Heather Nehring, Hugues de Montard and 1 more joined The Art of Hosting
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Heather Nehring joined Rowan's group
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AoH Germany

There have been three AoH trainings in Germany so far; in Allgäu (Fall '08), at the Hub Berlin (Summer '09), and again in Berlin (Fall '11). Some AoH material in German can be found here.See More
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Heather Nehring joined Helen Titchen Beeth's group
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Learning Villages

This is a space for sharing learning and experience around the practice of Learning Villages - be they permanent (like Kufunda in Zimbabwe) or temporary (as in Copenhagen and Slovenia).See More
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Heather Nehring joined Ursula Hillbrand's group
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Art of Hosting Bregenzer Salon (Austria)

Hier sammeln die Teilnehmer des Trainings ihre Ernte und tauschen weiterführende Entwicklungen aus.This is the harvest space for the training and for sharing the development of projects and ideas. See More
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Heather Nehring joined Frauke Godat's group
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AoH in Education

Exchange on how to practice AoH in schools, the education system, non-formal education, etc.
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Heather Nehring joined Ria Baeck's group
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Art of Participatory Leadership - EU Institutions

After some years of bringing Art of Hosting - Art of Participatory Leadership - into the European Commission, it was spreading into the Commission and other institutions - time to reflect collectively on the learnings so far and look forward on what is the direction and next steps into the future. (started in Nov. 2011)See More
7 hours ago

Forum

Debrief of an AoH event with a group of apprentices 4 Replies

Hello AoH mates,We've came out of our first AoH gathering and our group of 11 apprentices will be debreifing the event. We would like to go a bit deeper than the basic what went well and what could…Continue

Tags: Apprenticeship, Debrief

Started by Veronica Vivanco in Questions meet wisdom. Last reply by Veronica Vivanco May 16.

email list 1 Reply

I receive the emails but I'm not sure how to post an email without responding to a thread?Many thanksLucy FleetwoodContinue

Started by Lucy Fleetwood in Problems? Help?. Last reply by Ria Baeck May 2.

intentionally homeless nomads 1 Reply

Hi thereIn one of the email threads I receive I read that there are quite a few people in the AoH community who are intentionally homeless nomads, travelling between countries to carry out this…Continue

Started by Lucy Fleetwood in Questions meet wisdom. Last reply by Ria Baeck May 2.

Blending AoH into my other playing fields 1 Reply

A small reflection about the Art of Participatory Leadership seminar I attended recently in Hamburg - …Continue

Tags: reflections, aopl, aoh

Started by Thomas Krause in Harvests from AoH trainings. Last reply by Ria Baeck Apr 30.

Blog Posts

Working with Groupworks Pattern Language Cards

2 weeks ago, I was in Totnes, UK for attending a Transition Town Launch Training.

I stayed in Totnes the week after the training and participated in Transition Town Totnes and Schumacher College events and activities.

Here is a pattern reflection of my stay there using the Groupworks Pattern Language Card…

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Posted by Frauke Godat on March 31, 2013 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Designing a Smarter Conclave

From the email list March 2013...

I don’t know if the woman who wrote this article is part of Art of Hosting.  But I found this article from Zocalo Public Square hilarious.  What a brilliant way of using a current event to spread awareness of good group process!  It’s not about AoH per se.  But she does suggest the cardinals start by building relationships and ask new, provocative questions. She has them tell stories and think together in world café.  My favorite line is how…

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Posted by Amanda Fenton on March 25, 2013 at 12:59am

 
 
 

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