Community of Practice - The Art of Hosting2024-03-29T13:17:43Zhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/categories/community-of-practice/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noHow to hold a conversation that matterstag:artofhosting.ning.com,2017-04-26:4134568:Topic:1074522017-04-26T14:21:24.850ZPetronella Tysonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/PetronellaTyson
<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div id="m_-5267651533822026047AppleMailSignature">I wanted to share this new resource put together by Patrick Ozwalski (Outrageous Impact) and myself 'workshopped' and wrote last year <a href="http://petronellatyson.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/conversations-that-matter.html">http://petronellatyson.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/conversations-that-matter.html</a> (download free here)…</div>
<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div id="m_-5267651533822026047AppleMailSignature">I wanted to share this new resource put together by Patrick Ozwalski (Outrageous Impact) and myself 'workshopped' and wrote last year <a href="http://petronellatyson.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/conversations-that-matter.html">http://petronellatyson.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/conversations-that-matter.html</a> (download free here)</div>
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<div id="m_-5267651533822026047AppleMailSignature">This was the output from our event after the Brexit vote when we brought together Leave and Remain voters to discuss:</div>
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<div id="m_-5267651533822026047AppleMailSignature">'How Might We build peace and a shared prosperity in the wake of the decision to leave the EU?'</div>
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<div><span>As political triggers for conversations that matter are rising up across our world, I thought it worth sharing our process so you can start these conversations too!</span></div>
<div><span>Let me know what you think?</span></div>
<div><span>THANK YOU and may this be useful</span> </div>
<div id="m_-5267651533822026047AppleMailSignature"><br/><span class="il">Petronella</span></div> Who is attending ChangeMaker Festival in Sweden? Would be nice to meet some fellow AoH practitionerstag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-06-21:4134568:Topic:803922013-06-21T11:18:14.910ZMelinda Varfihttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/MelindaVarfi
<p>Dear AoH members,</p>
<p>Next weekend ChangeMaker Festival starts in Sweden, in Jarna and I would love to meet some AoH practitioners there and maybe co-create a deep listening workshop. Let me know if you are interested!</p>
<p>There are still some places left, if you feel a calling to attend: <a href="http://hostingtransformation.eu/festival/">http://hostingtransformation.eu/festival/</a></p>
<p>Warmly,</p>
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<p>Dear AoH members,</p>
<p>Next weekend ChangeMaker Festival starts in Sweden, in Jarna and I would love to meet some AoH practitioners there and maybe co-create a deep listening workshop. Let me know if you are interested!</p>
<p>There are still some places left, if you feel a calling to attend: <a href="http://hostingtransformation.eu/festival/">http://hostingtransformation.eu/festival/</a></p>
<p>Warmly,</p>
<p></p> Basic teachings of AoH in the Netherlands soontag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-06-18:4134568:Topic:803622013-06-18T23:34:01.011ZMartina de Langehttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/MartinadeLange
<p>Hello all out there!</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me when there will be a basic teaching of AoH starting in the Netherlands? And...whats the next teaching aftedr that? I have been to AoH from A Deeper place in Brazil and willgo to one in Porto Alegre soon. But am looking for the TEACHINGS in the Netherlands too! Look forward to any info on this!</p>
<p>abracos Martina</p>
<p>Hello all out there!</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me when there will be a basic teaching of AoH starting in the Netherlands? And...whats the next teaching aftedr that? I have been to AoH from A Deeper place in Brazil and willgo to one in Porto Alegre soon. But am looking for the TEACHINGS in the Netherlands too! Look forward to any info on this!</p>
<p>abracos Martina</p> Shape of the Universe: a torus?tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-03-24:4134568:Topic:758152013-03-24T20:40:27.054ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>From the email list February 2013...</p>
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<p>Toke shared this video: <a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/video/shape-of-the-universe-the-orange-theory">http://artofhosting.ning.com/video/shape-of-the-universe-the-orange-theory</a></p>
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<p><span>Three years ago at our stewards gathering on Bowen Island, I had a strong sense that this was the shape of our community of practice. We arise from a centre of ideas and we emerge from that and expand out into the…</span></p>
<p>From the email list February 2013...</p>
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<p>Toke shared this video: <a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/video/shape-of-the-universe-the-orange-theory">http://artofhosting.ning.com/video/shape-of-the-universe-the-orange-theory</a></p>
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<p><span>Three years ago at our stewards gathering on Bowen Island, I had a strong sense that this was the shape of our community of practice. We arise from a centre of ideas and we emerge from that and expand out into the world and then return to that centre. The art of stewardship is travelling the whole circuit I think, that you would return to where you began bringing knowledge and experience and adding to the centre, while protecting the ability of the centre to continue to generate.</span><br/><br/><span>Since then I've been looking for a representation that captures what I saw so clearly during our time together. And this is it.</span><br/><br/><span>One of the issues I have had with our idea of the fifth paradigm is that it is flat, and is a miss mash of four other paradigms. I've talked about it as paradigm 4.5. But since that stewards gathering I have thought of the dynamic torus (the name for this shape) as the fifth paradigm. It includes and transcends all of the other ways of organizing and is itself LITERALLY the next level of organization.</span><br/><br/><span>Thanks for sharing this…I think this is very important, not only as cosmology but also as a metaphor for the way in which hosting can work as the DNA of an organizing paradigm.</span></p>
<p><span>Chris</span></p>
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<p><span><span>Yessssss! </span></span></p>
<div>I also share this understanding. That is why forus in the Hunagarian group, AoH is called in our language, in Hungarian,<b>TerTeremtes</b>...meaning SpaceCreation-SpaceGeneration. </div>
<div>The two consonants <b>T.R</b> is a derivative root for a " torus" of words like: </div>
<div><b>Te(é)R</b> leading to</div>
<div><b>te(é)r</b> = <i>space, square, </i></div>
<div>as noun:<b> ter</b><i>em</i>=<i>room</i>, </div>
<div>as verb:<b> ter</b><i>em</i>= <i>bearing fruit,</i> </div>
<div> <b> ter</b>emt=<i>create</i>, --------------------<b>Ter</b>emtö=<i>Creator, </i></div>
<div> <b> ter</b><i>el</i> =<i> to herd, sheperd</i></div>
<div><b>TaR</b>= <i>to open up</i> leading to </div>
<div>as a compund noun:<b>...tar=</b> <i>a space where you keep, hold things</i>, such as szer-<b>tar</b>, könyv<b>-tar</b>-library ( book space), eszköz<b>-ta</b>r=tool kit, </div>
<div><b>Tar</b><i>s</i>=<i>partner</i>,<b> tar</b>sad, <i>your</i> partner, <b>tar</b>sad<i>alom</i>= <i>society.</i>..</div>
<div>Ervin lazlo calls this 5th dimension_Akasha filed...I guess...</div>
<div>With love.... </div>
<div><br clear="all"/><div><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>Agota E.Ruzsa,</b></font></i></div>
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<div><i>HO Chris</i><div>I remember you bringing that clarity in the gathering and it made me share this link as it was a way to study not just the form flat but how it flows - and of course </div>
<div>in real life and in the river of energy it ids much more dynamic and helpful…..</div>
<div>Ah how this most basic energy that creates, sustains and lets go when no more needed can be trusted - a bit more each day…..</div>
<div>cheers to being in harmony with that flow….</div>
<div><br/><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font face="'Handwriting - Dakota'"><font color="#3423FF">Toke</font></font></div>
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<p><font face="'Handwriting - Dakota'"><font color="#3423FF"><span>There is a mathematician, James Kelley, who is a MacArthur Fellow who has been exploring mathematically the shape of the universe and believes it is a torus, too. His work is very interesting, too, Chris and Toke.</span><br/><br/><span>Carolyn</span></font></font></p>
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<p><span>I appreciate the shape.</span><br/><br/><span>As I continue to learn, this is what I find myself point people to do. A simple pattern. Words for the torus image.</span><br/><br/><span>1. We come together to touch the hearth. Or the center. The energy of the whole. The purpose.</span><br/><span>2. While together, through questions and stories, we notice what emerges that could not have happened alone. Notice what has energy for this group.</span><br/><span>3. We take those learnings in the form of commitments and offerings for the next season of work together. Or work apart. The stuff we just do in the world or in the organization.</span><br/><span>4. We regather to share the learning and touch the hearth again. To let go of that which doesn't have energy. To notice next surprises.</span><br/><br/><span>A system that feeds on the energy of what is created together. Commitments fueled by that experience and clarity.</span></p>
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Hallo,<br />
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I would Like to bring together à group of people who would Like to upgrade Nijmegen by means of THE art of hosting powerfull conversations that matter. I have worked my whole Working life in empowering people through training, coaching and organising gatherings around interesting questions. I have done this in business, for Workcouncils, Unions, e.g.<br />
I would Like to extend my Working experience and hosting capacities with other trainers/facilitators/hosters around questions that matter…
Hallo,<br />
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I would Like to bring together à group of people who would Like to upgrade Nijmegen by means of THE art of hosting powerfull conversations that matter. I have worked my whole Working life in empowering people through training, coaching and organising gatherings around interesting questions. I have done this in business, for Workcouncils, Unions, e.g.<br />
I would Like to extend my Working experience and hosting capacities with other trainers/facilitators/hosters around questions that matter in THE community of Nijmegen. I would Like to organise with them gatherings with people who are interested to participate in conversations about topics and questions that matter.<br />
Are you à trainer/hoster in THE Gelderland area and do you want to join me in experiencing and learning new ways to host on à city level Please contact me so we can learn and act together.<br />
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Contact me<br />
Marian van den Assem<br />
Marian.vdassem@Gmail.com Hosting ourselves - how we host the AoH communitytag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-02-12:4134568:Topic:513572012-02-12T01:07:47.442ZMary Alice Arthurhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/MaryAliceArthur
<p>This is a conversation started by the AoH Online Hosting Team where we're asking for your contribution in how we can better host ourselves online (and maybe also elsewhere!). What are your thoughts about how to:</p>
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<li>encourage more of us to step in and help with the hosting?</li>
<li>share the responsibility for being a community that learns together?</li>
<li>deepen the practice of hosting ourselves so we can better host the whole?</li>
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<p>It seems to us that the more…</p>
<p>This is a conversation started by the AoH Online Hosting Team where we're asking for your contribution in how we can better host ourselves online (and maybe also elsewhere!). What are your thoughts about how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>encourage more of us to step in and help with the hosting?</li>
<li>share the responsibility for being a community that learns together?</li>
<li>deepen the practice of hosting ourselves so we can better host the whole?</li>
</ul>
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<p>It seems to us that the more energy we share in gathering the more we gather and the more we share. A community that has energy attracts more energy.</p>
<p>We also know that every one of us has skills, experience and a unique perspective to share. We're wondering what will happen when more of us connect. How do we make that easy and effortless?</p>
<p>And finally, we're sensing (probably along with the rest of the world! ;-) ) that this is an important year. Art of Hosting is over 10 years old. So what's next? We'd like to involve everyone in that conversation.</p>
<p>So what do <strong>you</strong> want to encourage? What are <strong>your</strong> thoughts?</p> Practitioner Dojo Denmarktag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-09-06:4134568:Topic:360132011-09-06T19:38:11.102ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p>Here some bits out of the pdf file, who says it all.</p>
<p><strong>Practitioners Dojo:</strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong>Emerging Norms or Practices</strong><br></br>• Any practitioner can “call” and host a Dojo session in their area.<br></br>• We are finding that co-hosting is quite effective and very creative. Often one host has carried over…</p>
<p>Here some bits out of the pdf file, who says it all.</p>
<p><strong>Practitioners Dojo:</strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong>Emerging Norms or Practices</strong><br/>• Any practitioner can “call” and host a Dojo session in their area.<br/>• We are finding that co-hosting is quite effective and very creative. Often one host has carried over to host the next Dojo and been joined by a new host, who then is the host for the next Dojo joined by a new host, etc. This has worked well, though is not a “rule”.<br/>• A place for money has emerged at the last several Dojos and Learning Villages. A donation basket collects the money that is used to cover expenses such as coffee, tea, snacks, room rental (where applicable) and transportation (all or part) for the host(s) when they travel a long distance.</p>
<p><strong>An Open Invitation</strong><br/>An invitation is always open for any practitioner to step up to practice your heart and your skills with some generosity of spirit, consciousness, resources and time including:<br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hosting:</span> those of us who offer to host others with ongoing practitioners Dojo session.<br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Participating:</span> those of us who come to the Dojo session to practice, share and learn together.<br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stewarding:</span> those of us who step forward to hold the space, context and purpose of the Dojo longterm. So far the stewards David Reis and Toke Møller have offered to be practicing this<br/>kind of stewarding for a while.</p>
<p>Here is the full document for you to read: <a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655746788?profile=original">110211 Practitioners dojo Denmark.pdf</a></p> How the Utah-based AoH CoP startedtag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-09-06:4134568:Topic:359222011-09-06T16:50:09.005ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p><em><strong>written up by Tenneson Woolf, <a href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/3/21_Reflective_Learning_on_Participative_Leadership__Principles,_Practices_and_Questions_from_a_Place-Based_Utah_Community_of_Practice.html" target="_blank">on his blog</a>.</strong></em></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_8"><strong>BACKGROUND / HISTORY FOR THE UTAH AoH COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE:</strong></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_2">It was just over a year ago that my colleague,…</p>
<p><em><strong>written up by Tenneson Woolf, <a href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/3/21_Reflective_Learning_on_Participative_Leadership__Principles,_Practices_and_Questions_from_a_Place-Based_Utah_Community_of_Practice.html" target="_blank">on his blog</a>.</strong></em></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_8"><strong>BACKGROUND / HISTORY FOR THE UTAH AoH COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE:</strong></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_2">It was just over a year ago that my colleague, Kathy Lung, and I began convening people in the Salt Lake Valley to learn about participative leadership. We wanted to bring together friends, colleagues and strangers into a more deliberate network. We wanted to begin to create an environment to learn together. We wanted to improve the capacity that people had, ours and those we were meeting, to work on problems and dreams of this local community through the applied use of participative leadership.</p>
<p class="paragraph_style_2"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2009/12/12_Harvest_-_Utah_Participative_Leadership_Appetizer.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2009/12/12_Harvest_-_Utah_Participative_Leadership_Appetizer.html">Our start was to convene two half-day gatherings</a>, open to anyone who wanted to show up. <a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/1/17_Harvest_-_Participative_Leadership_Appetizer.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/1/17_Harvest_-_Participative_Leadership_Appetizer.html">In total there were sixty of us.</a> We explored together the beginnings of what participative could be, why it mattered to those in the room as a choice of leadership, and what was possible if we worked from a living systems perspective of participation in teams, organizations, and communities.</p>
<p class="paragraph_style_2">Our next was to begin to offer a rhythm of periodic half-day Saturday morning workshops (our beginning intention was a six month series with committed registration -- it was difficult to find dates that worked for all, so we shifted to a less formal quarterly format). <a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/4/9_Learned_in_a_Day;_Mastered_Over_a_Lifetime.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/4/9_Learned_in_a_Day%3B_Mastered_Over_a_Lifetime.html">The first two were on the practice and way of being in Circle.</a> Then on <a title="http://berkana.org/berkana/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=12&id=347&Itemid=459" href="http://berkana.org/berkana/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=12&id=347&Itemid=459">principles for creating healthy and resilient community</a>. Then on <a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/9/24_Harvest_-_Open_Space_Technology_Workshop.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/9/24_Harvest_-_Open_Space_Technology_Workshop.html">Open Space Technology</a>. Our last of the 2010 calendar was on <a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/11/14_Harvest_-_SLC_Cooperative_Games_Workshop.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/11/14_Harvest_-_SLC_Cooperative_Games_Workshop.html">Changing the World Through Play</a>, with visiting friend and guest from Brazil, Edgard Gouveia Jr. of Elos Institute.</p>
<p class="paragraph_style_2">During the summer, after our first three morning workshops, my colleagues from the Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community, Jane Holt and Ben Mates, joined with me to begin to create a regular convening of a <a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/6/13_Communities_of_Practice_-_Minimal_Structure_and_Minimal_Practice.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/6/13_Communities_of_Practice_-_Minimal_Structure_and_Minimal_Practice.html">Community of Practice</a>. We began with the commitment of meeting on the third Thursday evening of each month. We committed to two principles: 1) <a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/7/13_Community_of_Practice_Monthly_Meetings_-_A_Simple_Design_for_Meeting_in_Circle.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/7/13_Community_of_Practice_Monthly_Meetings_-_A_Simple_Design_for_Meeting_in_Circle.html">We would meet in the format of circle</a> (with a welcome / context for the night, a presencing check-in, thinking together, harvesting, and a check-out). 2) We would focus on one project per meeting, invited and called by someone from the group, with focus on the participative leadership part of the project. The spirit of the Practitioners Circles has been that of Open Space sessions, invited from passion and responsibility. Whoever shows up are the right people, to offer help and support the groups learning in the moment.</p>
<p class="paragraph_style_2">Since then, we have had seven Practitioners Circles convened and harvested:</p>
<p class="paragraph_style_9"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/7/24_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_Practitioners_Group_July.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/7/24_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_Practitioners_Group_July.html">Support of Local Artist<span>s</span></a><span class="style_3"><br/></span></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_10"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/8/21_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_Practitioners_Group_August.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/8/21_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_Practitioners_Group_August.html">Midvale Wellness Project</a></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_9"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/9/17_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_September_Practitioner_Group.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/9/17_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_September_Practitioner_Group.html">Working with Planners of a Youth Camp</a><span class="style_3"><br/></span></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_10"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/11/3_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_October_Practitioner_Group.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/11/3_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_October_Practitioner_Group.html">Forming a SLC HUB</a></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_11"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/12/3_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_November_Practitioner_Group.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2010/12/3_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_November_Practitioner_Group.html">SLCEC Civility Initiative</a><span class="style_4"><br/></span></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_10"><a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/1/27_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_January_Practitioner_Group.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/1/27_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_January_Practitioner_Group.html" class="style_5">Kayenta Compassion</a></p>
<a title="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/2/22_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_February_Practitioner_Group.html" href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/2/22_Harvest_-_Salt_Lake_February_Practitioner_Group.html">Parenting in the Workplace Movement</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://web.me.com/tennesonwoolf/Tenneson_Woolf/Blog/Entries/2011/3/21_Reflective_Learning_on_Participative_Leadership__Principles,_Practices_and_Questions_from_a_Place-Based_Utah_Community_of_Practice.html" target="_blank">In this blogpost</a> you find a lot more information on what they learned about Participatory Leadership. Interesting!!!</p> Useful model for Community of Practicetag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-09-06:4134568:Topic:361102011-09-06T16:39:20.629ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p><strong><em>written by Kathy Jourdain, Sept, 1, 2011, <a href="http://shapeshiftstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/community-of-practice/" target="_blank">on her blog</a>.</em></strong></p>
<div class="posttitle"><h2>Community of Practice – What’s it All About?</h2>
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<p>One of the biggest questions arising out of <a href="http://www.artofhosting.org/home/" target="_blank" title="Art of Hosting">Art of Hosting</a> trainings and related work I’ve been part of these days is, what’s…</p>
<p><strong><em>written by Kathy Jourdain, Sept, 1, 2011, <a href="http://shapeshiftstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/community-of-practice/" target="_blank">on her blog</a>.</em></strong></p>
<div class="posttitle"><h2>Community of Practice – What’s it All About?</h2>
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<p>One of the biggest questions arising out of <a title="Art of Hosting" href="http://www.artofhosting.org/home/" target="_blank">Art of Hosting</a> trainings and related work I’ve been part of these days is, what’s next? How do we actually <a title="One AoH Training Does Not a Practitioner Make" href="http://shapeshiftstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/one-aoh-training-does-not-a-practitioner-make/" target="_blank">practice</a> and <a title="Becoming an AoH Practitioner" href="http://shapeshiftstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/becoming-an-aoh-practitioner/" target="_blank">sustain</a> what we have just learned? How do we grow our skill, courage and capacity as practitioners? How do we create fertile conditions in our organizations or our communities to <a title="Shape Shift Strategies Inc." href="http://www.shapeshiftstrategies.com/" target="_blank">shift the shape</a> of our future, the way we work and even the work we do?</p>
<p>In March 2011, I co-hosted the <a title="Reflections on the Art of Collaborative Leadership" href="http://shapeshiftstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/reflections-on-the-art-of-collaborative-leadership/" target="_blank">Art of Collaborative Leadership</a> in Nova Scotia with good friend and colleague, <a title="Jerry Nagel" href="http://meadowlark.co/jerry_nagel_full_bio.pdf" target="_blank">Jerry Nagel</a> from the <a title="Meadowlark Institute" href="http://www.meadowlark.co/about_us.html" target="_blank">Meadowlark Institute</a> in Minnesota. He shared a model he and <a title="Chris Corrigan" href="http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?page_id=1524" target="_blank">Chris Corrigan</a> have been using in Minnesota as a means of thinking about and being in a Community of Practice (CoP). I refer to it often now as it reminds me and the groups I work with of key elements that contribute to learning, growth and shifting the way we work and are with each other.</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655746045?profile=original"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655746045?profile=original" width="300"/></a>Work alone can be drudgery. Learning alone can be a great intellectual pursuit and might lead to some shift within you as an individual but does little to generate collective learning. Building good relationships is a good skill to have but in and of itself, you might as well be in a social club. It is where and how work, learning and relationship intersect that creates the potential for a rich and relevant community of practice.</p>
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The intersection of work and co-learning is where innovation happens as people think about the context of their collective or co-learning in relation to work. Ideas are generated and possibilities emerge. Without relationship though, there is often no traction or sustainability to the innovative ideas that emerge – they simply dissipate into thin air because there is no impetus to work with them on an ongoing basis.<br/>
<p>It is at the intersection of work and relationship that sustainability happens. And not just any <a title="“Soft Skills” – A Real Misnomer!" href="http://shapeshiftstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/soft-skills-a-real-misnomer/" target="_blank">relationship</a> will do. The relationship needs to be of good quality, filled with respect, trust and deep caring for each other – the quality of field that enables divergent points of view to be expressed, where passion for the conversation, the work, the future and friends is welcomed. Friendships we will fight for and support. We don’t necessarily start there but how beautiful when we tend to the relational field with such care and intentionality that so much more can spark without risk of offending anyone, without having to tiptoe around the conversations that are most necessary in our learning, relationship and work. These are friends with whom we will venture into unexpected places, uncertainty, emergent fields and creative explorations as well as nurture and cultivate the innovations that most spark our passion and curioisty. When these people call us because they need something, we respond. Sometimes we drop everything else and respond.</p>
<p>Powerful friendship, kinship or mates is fostered in the place between relationship and co-learning because part of what we are learning is how to be together in new ways that break old patterns that have defined relationships, at work, home or in other places where we make contributions and commitments – patterns like hierarchy and culture, old ways of moving work along,old ways of meeting and of thinking about meeting agendas, conferences or programming.</p>
<p>One of the key reasons we want to shift our relationships, aside from the experience of feeling better, working more effectively and enjoying showing up at work and projects is to focus them on achieving something meaningful and relevant in the world – maybe systemic change, maybe some smaller initiative. Otherwise, nothing happens. We are at such a pivotal time in our human evolution on this planet, a Community of Practice will be most meaningful when we bring our relationships and collective learning to bear on the shift we are wanting to create rather than putting up with the shift that just shows up.</p>
<p>Having now been in several conversations about community of practice, most recently with emerging leaders in Halifax – none of whom are following conventional career paths, this model becomes extremely helpful in focusing on the purpose of a community of practice, especially as conversations tend to veer to one component or the other. The power in the model is that it reminds us that each of these elements is fundamentally important to shifting patterns of work, organizations and communities, as well as individual patterns of relationship.</p>
<p>Communities of Practice could and will be many things – defined by the people who gather in them. There is some core that attracts people into them – it could be creating an active practice ground in a community or organization for new skills, a safe haven in an environment that seems resistant to new work and new ways of working, an opportunity to grow individual and collective capacity.</p>
<p>The ones I’ve been part of seem to have an energy and magnetic attraction of their own that keep people showing up, an ease of flow and relationship, shared leadership and shared responsibility. Nobody has to make them happen, they almost seem to make themselves happen. They are fun. People who show up really want to see each other, be with each other and dive into deep places within themselves and with each other. There is some intentionality applied and the CoP is able to follow the path of emergence that points to what needs and wants to happen next to be most meaningful to work, relationships and learning. Many of these CoPs don’t just know that something different is possible, they are beginning to demand it and showing up together, cultivating deep relationships and imagining what is possible that none of us individually might have imagined on our own while growing skills to support what we are envisioning is one way of creating movement, maybe even creating a movement.</p> Community of Practice support materialstag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-01-24:4134568:Topic:55302011-01-24T20:33:06.000ZMary Alice Arthurhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/MaryAliceArthur
<p>In supporting the emergence of a Community of Practice in New Zealand, we produced a series of newsletter. These were created in Pages, a Mac programme.</p>
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<p>We also tried to depict graphically how all the parts of an Art of Hosting network fit together.</p>
<p>In supporting the emergence of a Community of Practice in New Zealand, we produced a series of newsletter. These were created in Pages, a Mac programme.</p>
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<p>We also tried to depict graphically how all the parts of an Art of Hosting network fit together.</p>