All Conversations Tagged 'education' - The Art of Hosting2024-03-28T18:22:16Zhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=education&feed=yes&xn_auth=noArt of Hosting and organisationstag:artofhosting.ning.com,2019-01-07:4134568:Topic:1173192019-01-07T12:59:55.590ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre">From the email list, starting late 2018:</pre>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre"><br></br>On Dec 20, 2018, at 2:43 AM, Monica Nissen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><monica@interchange.dk></a> wrote: </pre>
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<blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre">And I still have a working assumption that the four-fold practise is foundational in this shift - as are good methods, useful tools, skills and theory (=AoH)…</pre>
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<blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre">From the email list, starting late 2018:</pre>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre"><br/>On Dec 20, 2018, at 2:43 AM, Monica Nissen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><monica@interchange.dk></a> wrote: </pre>
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<blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre">And I still have a working assumption that the four-fold practise is foundational in this shift - as are good methods, useful tools, skills and theory (=AoH) </pre>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre"> Yes to this. I think our little framework is powerful enough and fractal enough that it holds this work on multiple levels. When a group of people begin practicing the four fools practice over time, my experience is that they begin to become a community that learns and a community that hosts itself and others, participates, and co-creates. </pre>
<blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre">So in short - how do you expand/scale up the “Art”?? </pre>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre">To me that is how it scales: organizations take on the practice as their core function. I’m seeing it in my work with foundations, non-profits and even a few local businesses, like Percolab, who do this as their raison d’être and not just their marketable offerings. </pre>
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<div class="">On Dec 21, 2018, at 7:04 AM, Monica Nissen <<a>monica@interchange.dk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""><div class="">Hi Chris<div class=""><br class=""/><div class="">Love the way the computer has its own will to innovate …</div>
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<div class="">And I still wonder if the viral version is enough or only works for networked mind-sets and organisations - are there hybrids? - bigger organisations - that need more conscious and/or structure approaches???</div>
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<div class="">Not sure - But I just have an intuition that there may be a bigger, nested “four fools practice” in there somewhere - so I’m in the mood to explore..</div>
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<div class=""><span>It’s definitely deliberate and networked. For me, it’s about building capacity. Our biggest work the last 9 years has been providing this program to social service workers in British Columbia working with children, youth and families in agencies, indigenous communities and government: </span><div class=""></div>
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<div class="">You can read a summary of our five year evaluation of this program here: <a href="https://fcssbc.ca/sf-docs/2020/2020_evaluation_report.pdf" class="">https://fcssbc.ca/sf-docs/2020/2020_evaluation_report.pdf</a></div>
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<div class="">We continue to developmentally evaluate as we go, and as a result, each cohort is different, each curriculum is slightly changed and we find new and more relevant ways to introduce people to this practice.</div>
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<div class="">The basis of that program is a leadership approach that is very similar and deeply informed by what we in the Art of Hosting community know as the four-fold practice: that great leadership is personal, practice-based, participatory and perceptive. The program is structured in cohorts made up of people that have to apply. We mix “legacy” leaders with experienced and emerging leaders to show that learning never ends. Each cohort participates in two 5 day residencies - which are basically extended Art of Hosting workshops - and a nine month program of learning in between, featuring webinars and coaching and peer support for the application of tools and methods.</div>
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<div class="">Over the past eight years we have brought about 450 people through the program. While it's about learning in participatory ways, the program has a kind of hidden agenda. We are very clear that, about every 20 years or so, the child welfare system in our province goes through a massive restructuring, often provoked by a crisis, but not always. We have always invited our participants to both practice their leadership on the issues that are immediately in front of them, but to do it in a way that builds their capacity to respond when that later transformation happens. We want them to be the first to run to the centre when the old system is dying, eager to use their capacity, relationships, and practice to create the new.</div>
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<div class="">In these days, the system is now beginning that deeper transformation, and fortunately it hasn’t been preceded by a crises. Instead, the woman who founded the Leadership 2020 program, Jennifer Charlesworth, was appointed to a five-year term as the <a href="https://rcybc.ca/" class="">Representative for Children and Youth</a> in British Columbia, a very powerful position that is independent of the government and that can make powerful recommendations about systems change, usually as a result of different issues or events. In the past, this position has been held by people who have been very confrontational in their work, but Jennifer is bringing a more collaborative approach to her work and to be successful in that, she is partly relying on the 450 Leadership 2020 graduates that are spread all through the system. There is a built-in capacity that is being invited into its biggest calling, reaching across traditional divides of indigenous/non-indigenous and government/community. We are hoping to see that the system is able to evolve faster with this capacity embedded in a way that is less painful than a collapse and transformation. You can already see in Jennifer’s reports how she is talking about the need for connection, and you will recognize the perspective that is informed by participatory approaches to this work. In this report on <a href="https://rcybc.ca/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/reports_publications/timetolisten-youthvoicesonsubstanceuse-2018-web-final.pdf" class="">Youth Substance Abuse in BC</a>, look at the Findings and Analysis section. Something important is starting.</div>
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<div class="">Participatory practices have been used for a long time in the field of social work and child and family services. In 2003 I started working with David Stevenson to use Open Space, Cafe, Circle, and the four fold practice to begin to build an indigenous governance systems for child and family services in BC. Our colleagues Kris Archie and Kyla Mason, Pawa Hayupis and many other indigenous Art of Hosting practitioners came into and out of that work. Toke and Monica joined us to teach Art of Hosting to families and community members who were participating in that work: <a href="http://www.turtleisland.org/healing/healing-cousins.htm" class="">http://www.turtleisland.org/healing/healing-cousins.htm</a>. Between 2003 and 2009 we did something important on Vancouver Island. We started something and then had to abandon it for a different form, because not every idea works. But David later took that work with him into his work in executive positions in government. Kris has now become the CEO of the <a href="http://www.philanthropyandaboriginalpeoples.ca/" class="">Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada</a> and Kyra has become an extraordinary executive director of Usma, a Nuu-Chah-Nulth agency on Vancouver Island. Pawa is currently doing her Masters of Arts in indigenous governance and she and David continue to offer Art of Hosting trainings locally, as do Caitlin and I.</div>
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<div class="">Meanwhile, Jennifer and a small group of us began Leadership 2020 in 2011. It has taken 15 years of developing leadership at the grass roots level and seeing that leadership grow into positions of power that has allowed us to work with the system this way. There is capacity in BC now, hopefully enough to take the system through the changes that are now coming, the ones we have prepared for, the ones we are waiting for, the ones we are making.</div>
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<div class="">It takes courage, patience, time, power, stewardship, relationship, and community to do this work. It takes a common language and shared perspectives and it takes massive diversity and difference to build resourcefulness and resilience. It is costly, both emotionally and materially, and it is not easy work. It requires a fierce commitment to relationship and a willingness to be at the edge of safety, with one foot out into the dangerous world. You get uplifted, hurt, angry, and joyful. But it’s a long game and you cannot sacrifice the depth of the work for ease and comfort. And no one person can do it alone.</div>
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<div class="">It is not enough to do some trainings and walk away. The viral network does not just magically appear. Beautiful workshop experiences are only useful for systems change if they are connected to power. It requires staying in.</div>
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<div class="">I just realized a few weeks ago that, although I never intended to work in the field of child and family services, that this may indeed be my life’s work. It has been nearly 20 years since I first walked into Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services to take on a job organizing their negotiations to become a “delegated agency” able to make decisions for indigenous children and families instead of government doing it. I think in that time I’ve learned a bit about what it takes to create the capacity in a large system that gives us a chance. That’s all I can say we’ve done at the moment, but I’m an optimist, so I live with the hope and gratitude that the legacy of the work we have done will make the world better for the kids who suffer the most in it.</div>
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<div class="">I hope that provides some insight on your question, Monica.</div>
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<div class=""><span>Thank you Chris for taking the time to make your insights explicit and sharing the story!!.</span><div class=""></div>
<div class="">This is an important and encouraging lived story!!<br class=""/><div class=""></div>
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<div class="">And I certainly recognise elements from our own experiences and work.</div>
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<div class="">For me this is an example of a complex system changing with the experience, relationships and capacity built into and between the people participating.</div>
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<div class="">And as you say it has taken 20 years so far - and probably another 20 to come.</div>
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<div class="">What if we don’t have the 10-15-20 years???</div>
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<div class="">Is there a simple “pattern” or practice - maybe the next spiral in the four-fold practice that can help us transition from interventions to living it long term and large scale?</div>
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<div class="">And if yes - what are the steps in the journey? - and are they replicable in any context?</div>
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<div class=""><span>Part of the answer here is that we are changing a culture. The only way to change a culture is to change the interactions between agents in a culture. Introducing more diversity and connecting people in a culture to more difference helps to create adaptability. </span><div>But the culture that is emerging in the system here in BC is being countered by the culture of accountability, outcomes and linear causality which has political appeal because it can deliver short term results, but it doesn’t make the system work better for kids and families. </div>
<div>It’s not that the project is long or short term. It’s permanent. It’s 5 years and 30 years. It doesn’t end. It has no achievement with a static state of bliss at the end of a long journey of many steps. </div>
<div>There are no easy answers, merely patterns and contexts that change and invite us to do things differently. We must sense what is needed and create responsively. That’s all. Sometimes it works, like Leadership 2020, sometimes like VIATT it fails. But it always moves. </div>
<div>Chris<br/>-----------------<br/><span>Hi everybody in here,</span><div dir="auto"><br/><div dir="auto">I totally agree with "We must sense the genuine needs and create responsively" sort of approach in orientating our thinking too. Putting some measures of sense into the thinking.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Learning is continuing. Natural, very naturally exciting each time it thus is enabled to happen.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Creating an such a manner that, projects maintain their temporality nature, while ensuring that only their consequences are permanent in any perceivable manner.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Regards</div>
<div dir="auto">Mugyabuso R A</div>
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<div dir="auto"><p>Hi all....</p>
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<p>I’m loving this conversation because it helps to raise really important questions about one of my own life’s questions as a practitioner W<em>hat are the key leverage points for large scale systems change?</em>....a passion of mine since my early days with Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement and later becoming an “accidental consultant” for several decades with senior executive levels in the multi-national corporate world (where, incidentally, the World Cafe was born and initially spread.)</p>
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<p>It seems to me that, in addition to large numbers of people in trainings gaining more robust relational and participatory leadership skills, another dimension of architectures for large scale systems change has to do with the design of infrastructures/processes that can then channel the constructive energies that are released from learning programs like AoH or others. </p>
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<p>In the systems dynamics world, there is a mantra that “structure determines behavior”--meaning that the intentional “architecture” of people related infrastructures and processes in the HR/OD world.... things like recruiting processes, reward systems, and even things like building design, determine people’s behavior and therefore, the results we see (good or bad!) In the business strategy world (also in non-profits) this might include the architecture of disciplined strategic planning processes, including data analysis, strategic futuring, scenario analysis etc. as critical elements for creating the outcomes we see.</p>
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<p>Many practitioners/consultants as well as those within organizations who are newly exposed to our approaches, may operate with an assumption that learning programs that enhance individual and group capacities for relational integrity and participatory methods will somehow necessarily and organically change organizational level infrastructures that link “business strategy” (ie the design of the “hard” stuff) and “organizational strategy” (the design of the “softer” stuff) into a coherent whole. </p>
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<p>For myself, I’ve found that large scale leadership capacity development (and follow up implementation strategies) in BOTH areas simultaneously are important in discovering the “sweet spot.” It seems to me that highly developed leadership skills <em>both</em> arenas are critical to thinking and acting systemically in order to gain strategic leverage toward the results organizational leaders and members seek.</p>
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<p>Doing this kind of work, as Chris says, can take many years in large organizations, so a stance of both loving patience, thick skinned tenacity and a high tolerance for ambiguity, as well as an enduring focus on heartfelt human values are qualities essential to engaging in this kind of tough work.</p>
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<p>Anyhow, those are early reflections and I still, after these many years, have lots of unanswered questions in my own head and heart, that I’d love to explore with others in our field.</p>
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<p>With fond best wishes for a wonderful holiday and deep appreciation for the reflections in this thread,</p>
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<div dir="auto"><span>Chris,</span><div>I am so moved by your description of the long term trajectory of your work. I see so many lessons for what I’ve been attempting to do in journalism. Notably, I’m struck by the inherent evolutionary nature of the four fold practice. </div>
<div>Can the conversation on AoH in organizations transcend to a social system like education or journalism? I see glimpses, as I think about seeding AoH-inspired workshops in journalism support organizations that reach into journalism organizations. Perhaps along the lines of your farm workers activities Juanita?</div>
<div>Or is this a different conversation?<br/><br/><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Peggy Holman<br/>--------------------------<br/><div>This thread (and your grounded personal reflections particularly Chris) are one of my favourites from anywhere in a long time. You are reinforcing patterns I have lived in, felt, seen and believed in, from further along a similar path.<br/><br/>Thank you Rolf, too, for your ‘forest and hill’ metaphors of where we are in the seeding of the process.<br/><br/>----<br/><br/>when you feel the beginning of your new spring,<br/>let it blossom<br/>at the speed of the blossoming<br/><br/>do you think this world<br/>does not know<br/>how to change the seasons ¿<br/><br/><i>— dec. 12, 2005</i></div>
<div><br/>Thanks,<br/><br/>Ben</div>
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<p><span>Hi Juanita and friends</span></p>
<p><span>Good to hear your thoughts Juanita. These resonate/coincide very clearly with my own inquiry over the past few years. I have worked exploring the nature of being and acting in complex human systems together with my colleague Mark Gatenby. One result is a focus on the process of co-design. To that end I am very thrilled to announce that we have just published three volumes drawing upon our 6 year long inquiry into practice. Our three strands are designing, developing and learning. The interplay and confluences between them are what we have found in practice to give us a glimpse of co-designing human (and humane) systems. Please do take a look and even purchase if you wish:</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.businessexpertpress.com/?s=co-design&book_author=0&post_type=product">https://www.businessexpertpress.com/?s=co-design&book_author=0&post_type=product</a> (Also found on Amazon)</span></p>
<p><span>The learning for us emerged from extended work aimed at bringing back learning into higher education (somewhat ironic!) and also into professional practice in healthcare. The significant individual emotional reactions to learning with others alongside institutional pushback showed to us that new practices and ways of thinking are in the process of being birthed. Of course, birthing is hard and potentially painful, but through intentional co-design such experiences can open up news ways of living and organising. This work also signposts what I describe as a ‘post-organisational’ future where organising is the priority and the organizational paradigm that has held western thinking for the past 100 or so years is lessened in its strength. We go on with our inquiry and our stepping into practice in 2019.</span></p>
<p><span>Warmest seasons greetings from the UK</span></p>
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</div> AoH in higher educationtag:artofhosting.ning.com,2015-03-06:4134568:Topic:965472015-03-06T14:35:30.457ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p>Related with this thread you can look up similar threads from previous years:</p>
<p><a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/aoh-and-universities" target="_self">Art of Hosting in Universities</a></p>
<p><a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/educational-application-of-the" target="_self">Educational Application of Art of Hosting principles</a></p>
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<p><em>From the email list, March 2015</em>:…</p>
<p>Related with this thread you can look up similar threads from previous years:</p>
<p><a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/aoh-and-universities" target="_self">Art of Hosting in Universities</a></p>
<p><a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/educational-application-of-the" target="_self">Educational Application of Art of Hosting principles</a></p>
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<p><em>From the email list, March 2015</em>:</p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">Hello everyone,</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">I have been studying the possibility of introducing participatory/conversational methods on a higher education context. It is a traditional institution, so I have a challenge of first inspiring them (I know the best way of doing so would be to invite some professors and faculty members to experience something different, but before they accept to do so, I believe some inspirations might help….)</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.75pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">Does anyone have materials (articles, stories, case studies) that could help me on this journey?</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.75pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">Thank you very much!</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.75pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">Best wishes</span></p>
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<div>Dear Ana</div>
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<div>Although the video is in Dutch, the images might inspire; </div>
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<div>Warm regards</div>
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<div>Fréderic Laloux has done research about Re-inventing Organisations (<a href="http://youtu.be/gcS04BI2sbk" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/gcS04BI2sbk</a>)<br/><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">One organisation is <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">ESBZ - Evangelische Schüle Berlin Zentrum -</span> <a href="http://www.ev-schule-zentrum.de/" target="_blank">http://www.ev-schule-zentrum.de/</a>)</div>
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<div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">A Brazilian documentary, in Portuguese with subtitles in Spanish and English: </div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The <a href="http://ojaifoundation.org/">http://ojaifoundation.org/</a> has several years of experience in introducing council in school; I recommend a contact with them.<br/></span>(in the council book they have several chapters for schools - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883647185">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883647185</a>)</div>
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<p>Hi, Ana (Oi, xará!)</p>
<div>Good to hear from you! </div>
<div>We've been working with participative approaches and active learning in Higher Education, in some experiences at Universidade Federal de Viçosa, here in Brazil (Circle, Fishbowl, World Cafe, Open Space, Way of Council, Dragon Dreaming, Project Based Learning, etc) . We did an AoH training at the University in last July, and we can share more about it, if you want.</div>
<div>I read about some interesting experiences at the University of Minnesota.</div>
<div>There's a book about Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Appreciative-Inquiry-Higher-Education-Transformative/dp/1118097351/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425324643&sr=8-1&keywords=appreciative+inquiry+in+higher+education" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Appreciative-Inquiry-Higher-Education-Transformative/dp/1118097351/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425324643&sr=8-1&keywords=appreciative+inquiry+in+higher+education</a>). </div>
<div>I also use another book about collaborative learning (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collaborative-Learning-Techniques-Handbook-College/dp/1118761553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425324799&sr=8-1&keywords=collaborative+learning">http://www.amazon.com/Collaborative-Learning-Techniques-Handbook-College/dp/1118761553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425324799&sr=8-1&keywords=collaborative+learning</a>). There are other interesting resources not directly connected to AoH...</div>
<div>And I recommend José Pacheco's writings and work (the Portuguese educator who created Escola da Ponte, in Portugal, and lives in Brazil nowadays). He is a very good storyteller! There are some talks and videos available in youtube.</div>
<div>Last, but not least, Paulo Freire is always a powerful source of inspiration!</div>
<div>Keep in touch! It would be lovely to know more about your work!</div>
<div>Warm hugs,</div>
<div>Ana Carolina Simas</div>
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<div>Hi, Ana,<div>I have been using AoH conversational methodologies for 6 years now in a class I teach in Intercultural Communication for the MBA program at a university here in Spokane, WA. It takes a lot of furniture moving because the classrooms are set up in lecture format. </div>
<div>The first night of class, I will have shoved all the desks to the perimeter of the room and set up a circle with a center of beauty with a variety of talking pieces. The business students are usually shocked to walk in to this very different atmosphere. Some ask how they can take notes on their computer in the circle and I tell them it will be ok and they won’t need to. Others ask if we have to be in this formation for the whole course. So it is definitely a kind of culture shock for them, which later on in the sessions, I have them talk about their experience of this culture shock. I use the initial circle to have them share about their lives and why they’ve chosen to do an MBA program at this point. I also use circle several more times during the course of the class and often the sharing becomes very deep, which surprises these adult learners coming back for evening classes.</div>
<div>I also use World Cafe to discuss the many reading assignments and harvest key learnings each time. I save the table papers with their doodling and notes and post them on the wall during the next class. It serves two purposes, one to remind them of what they talked about during the previous class and two, to serve as a nonverbal form of communication that this class is different.</div>
<div>I use pairs and trios and appreciative inquiry. I haven’t used open space yet,but at some point I want to try it with the students thereby selecting what they are most intrigued about. The freedom of it will blow their minds! I often use a line, to show a spectrum of experiences, having students physically line up from one wall to the other — they place themselves wherever they feel they fit. For instance, one side of the room might be never traveled internationally nor had any extensive experience locally with those from another culture; the other side of the room would be those who have had lots of experience. Of course they need to talk with each other to figure out where they should stand. Depending on the topic, I sometimes have them in pairs or trios with others standing near them — for similar experiences — and sometimes I “fold the line in half” with a person from one end talking with someone from the opposite end, to share very different experiences.</div>
<div>These are just some examples from a particular class, which is well suited to using these conversational approaches. The feedback from students is extremely positive and I feel they learn the content in a much deeper way because they experience the content during class. I’m can’t imagine, though, how you would teach math in this way, but many humanities and social sciences courses could be taught like this. I wish you well in bringing classrooms alive! It’s so fun to teach in this way and to see the students, reluctant at first, become really excited.</div>
<div>Best,</div>
<div>Susan Virnig</div>
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<div>Ana,<div>We have an active community of practice here at the University of Minnesota with over 200 faculty, staff, and graduate students having participated in AoH training hosted on campus or in the region. A couple of years ago, we published an <a href="http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/155523">ebook</a> and accompanying <a href="https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/hostingconversations/">web site</a> containing stories of how AoH was being used at our institution from classrooms to meeting rooms to community forums and more. </div>
<div>Our Center for Integrative Leadership has sponsored most of the Art of Hosting trainings on our campus. If you visit <a href="http://www.leadership.umn.edu/education/leadership_forum.html">http://www.leadership.umn.edu/education/leadership_forum.html</a> you'll find some research conducted by a couple faculty exploring what AoH training participants learn and do. </div>
<div>For a more recent story of practice.. our University President, Provost, and other senior leaders sponsored a year long campus engagement strategy implemented by a core planning team guided by AoPL practitioners that utilized World Cafe and Open Space. You can read about it and see the harvest documents at <a href="https://campusclimate.umn.edu/campus-engagement">https://campusclimate.umn.edu/campus-engagement</a>.</div>
<div>Grateful to be connected to others all around the world who are practicing in HE! </div>
<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Jen</div>
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<div><div>Hey,</div>
<div>Try contacting Laura Weissel from USA, she's been in that field for a very long time and has done a lot of work that she could share! </div>
<div><a href="http://www.powerpath.com/about.html">http://www.powerpath.com/about.html</a></div>
<div>I believe she would love to share and help!</div>
<div>Also Dutch organisation <a href="http://www.ideal-learning.org">www.ideal-learning.org</a> they have worked with different universities and schools.</div>
<div>Hope this works out well!</div>
<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Aurimas</div>
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<div>Olá Ana! <div>If you want a research that shows how participatory methodologies are a key piece on improving education and making it be transformative, I did my Master's thesis related to the topic, you can <a href="http://www.gaiaeducation.net/docs/A%20Strategic%20&%20Transformative%20Approach%20to%20ESD%20-%20BTH%202012%20Berner.pdf">download it here</a>. There you can find some good examples and best practices from 6 amazing schools in Europe that use AoH or similar approaches for adult learning.<br/><div>The master's that I did in Sweden and where I wrote that thesis (MSLS - Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability) is facilitated using AoH constantly, and it is where the annual Art of Hosting Karlskrona happens, always called and organized by the students (the next one is happening next week by the way: <a href="http://www.aohkarlskrona.org">www.aohkarlskrona.org</a> / <a href="http://www.facebook.com/AoHKarlskrona">www.facebook.com/AoHKarlskrona</a>). You can watch an interesting video from the 2013 training and listen to the program director at the time (Tracy Meisterheim, an AoH steward) and Toke talking about the importance of AoH in education: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GoKFg5HsX8&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GoKFg5HsX8&feature=youtu.be</a></div>
<div>Good luck and let me know if you need any more support, I'm very passionate about the topic. :)</div>
<div>Um abraço,</div>
<div>Narayan</div>
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<div>Hi Ana,<div>This is definitely one of my passions and I'd be happy to have a conversation with you about how we integrated AoH as a way of engaging our MSLS students in Sweden. Next year it will become even more embedded, as we redesign the flow of courses and create a year-long course called 'Leadership in Complexity'. </div>
<div>I'm back in the states now, after serving as MSLS Program Director for the past 3½ years. I'm still in the throws of transition with new contracts starting up now, but should have some time available soon if you'd like to connect. Maybe there's a larger conversation we could host on this topic with all these brilliant and experienced people engaged in shifting higher education!</div>
<div>Warm wishes, from a snowy Duluth Minnesota,</div>
<div>Tracy</div>
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<div><pre>A number of people contributed to a good thread on the AoH Facebook group on the theme of designing an educational program - such as a certificate or an MA degree - using AoH principles and practices. <br/><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/artofhosting/permalink/993676403980116/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/artofhosting/permalink/993676403980116/</a> <br/><br/>I'd love to be involved in the conversation. I've worked in several graduate programs in transformative learning.<br/><br/>Jeff<br/>----------------------<br/>Tracy,<br/> that conversation would be soooo gooood to be hosted!!!<br/> -- and learn from each other; and inspire even more!<br/> <br/> with love,<br/> Ria<br/>----------------------<br/>Agreed, Ria! Would love to be part of this conversation.</pre>
<div>I'm helping to run the mid-career <a href="https://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/programs/mpa-in-development-practice">MPA in Development Practice program</a> at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs here in New York City, and used World Cafe, Circle Practice, and discussions surrounding the complexity of international development practice and poverty alleviation work during our annual student retreat, meant to harvest the lessons of 12-week summer field placements that students undertake in dozens of countries around the world each summer.</div>
<div>Last fall was a pilot effort, and I would love to use this bigger hosted conversation to shape next year's offerings as well as expand ideas to be worked on throughout the academic year.</div>
<div>Warmly,</div>
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<div>Sounds like there's a real need for this conversation among many educators and practitioners. There's so much hungry conversation, exploration, and prototyping of new approaches to higher education happening around the world right now. Bringing an inquiry-based approach into many different educational formats is absolutely ripe for the picking! Can't say I've ever known any other way.<div>We need to share what we're learning and become wiser together. Using that language brings Juanita's work into focus as well - this is such an inter-generational conversation, given the end-of-life stage that the educational system many of us grew up with is no longer serving those who were born into the digital age (not that it ever served many of us very well either!). </div>
<div>I'm intrigued by the potential to host this conversation with a range of approaches, to share our stories of 'how' we're doing this, what's working/not working, do some collective presencing work to see what wants to rise, co-designing some approaches - oh dear, I could play all day imagining this.</div>
<div>I'm not sure where this fits into the flow of life for me right now, but clearly the hunger is in me to see what's possible. I'll take some time to sense my own energy for this and check in with some mates offline, and see what feels ready to rise. Let's keep this inquiry alive.</div>
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<div><p>I am currently working on an initiative that brings our Student Health Center, University Counseling Center, Campus Recreation Center and Nutrition under one roof in a wellness center concept. I also work with dining services, retail services and the campus greenhouse. This integration process and wellness concept is perfect for participative formats! I would love to continue to be part of this dialog and would value participation in further discussions and exploration. I am very grateful for Ana bringing forth this issue and for the emerging insight.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone again,</p>
<div>We have just started a 2 year Eramsus+ project between 5 countries in Europe (Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands), and most of organisations are active Art of Hosting practitioners. Check out more here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.Movemakers.eu">www.Movemakers.eu</a></div>
<div>The whole goal of the program is to make adult education prototypes and for co-creation process we will be using AoH, Theory U, Design thinking. There are quite a few of the participants who are university lectureres, and who have experience in using AoH and other innovative methods in their classes.</div>
<div>As the project is in the beginning phase now, we can’t offer much at the moment. But keep us updated and let’s collaborate in the future!</div>
<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Aurimas</div>
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<div>Would be lovely to take this conversation further in Art of Hosting in Education in October 13-17 in Lithuania.<div><a href="http://aoh.lt/#art-of-hosting-in-education">http://aoh.lt/#art-of-hosting-in-education</a></div>
<div>Hope to see some of you there!</div>
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</div> Harvest Website from AoH training in Education, Lithuaniatag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-03-06:4134568:Topic:899342014-03-06T02:52:52.385ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
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<div id=":1i7" class="ii gt m144458d0f40f447e adP adO"><div id=":1i8" class="a3s"><div dir="ltr">Hi Friends,<br/><br/>We're excited to share with you the harvest website from the recent AoH training / strategic conversation around the future of Education in Lithuania. <br/><br/>A fantastic training with profound conversations, a beautiful, diverse group of participants and an awesome team of harvesters. Enjoy... <a href="http://aoheducation.weebly.com/" target="_blank">http://aoheducation.weebly.com/</a><br clear="all"/><div><div dir="ltr"></div>
<div>Warmly,</div>
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</div> Living systems and public educationtag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-03-24:4134568:Topic:760232013-03-24T22:32:22.322ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>From the email list February 2013...</p>
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<p><span>I am interested in how living systems thinking is being applied in public education. Is anyone doing this or does anyone know where resources for this can be found.</span><span> </span></p>
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<div><span>Greetings. </span><br></br><br></br><span>Jim: I am not sure I understand the difference between "living" systems thinking versus mere "systems thinking" which is a discipline of…</span></div>
<p>From the email list February 2013...</p>
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<p><span>I am interested in how living systems thinking is being applied in public education. Is anyone doing this or does anyone know where resources for this can be found.</span><span> </span></p>
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<div><span>Greetings. </span><br/><br/><span>Jim: I am not sure I understand the difference between "living" systems thinking versus mere "systems thinking" which is a discipline of its own with a few reputable references and a rich history. If you referred to systems thinking applied to education, a good video out of many possible tells the story of how it has been carried out in a specific case for children. </span><br/><br/><span>From minute 4' onwards, specifically on systems thinking for kids </span><br/><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaoRiCe7xo&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaoRiCe7xo&feature=youtu.be</a><span> </span><br/><br/><br/><span>Hope this helps. </span><br/><span>Marco.</span></div>
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<div><p>Regarding systems thinking (and organizational learning) applied to education there is P.Senge's "Schools that learn", especially chapter about "Systems Thinking in the Classroom".</p>
<p>There is wonderful guide "The Systems thinking playbook" by Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows about how to learn and build systems thinking capabilities through fun exercises and games.</p>
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<p>Here are a couple resources that might be of interest to you:</p>
<p><b>For integrating living systems as a framework for curriculum development:</b></p>
<p>This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in developing a student-centered curriculum that builds on the insights of living systems science. Ed was my academic advisor for graduate school and he become a personal advisor on my spiritual path. He also married my husband and I J He consulted with a number of US schools and his books has an international audience.</p>
<p><b>Ed T. Clark, Jr. </b><b>Designing and Implementing an Integrated Curriculum: A Student-Centered Approach</b></p>
<p>For an overview of the book: <a href="https://great-ideas.org/clark.htm" target="_blank">https://great-ideas.org/clark.htm</a></p>
<p>An excerpt:</p>
<p><i>“Ed Clark, more adeptly than anyone else, has translated the revolutionary insights of systems theory and ecological science into a specific educational agenda for the twenty-first century. In this new and compelling book, he makes it clear that "integrated curriculum" is more than the mere combination of subject areas, and more than another passing educational fad: By examining hidden assumptions about human potential, learning and intelligence, the nature of the universe, and the effectiveness of organizations, Clark demonstrates that the established educational structure is not equipped to cope with the major changes taking place in the world today. He calls for systemic restructuring.”</i></p>
<p>To download Chapter 2 <b>The Design Solution: Systems Thinking</b>: <a href="https://great-ideas.org/clark2.txt" target="_blank">https://great-ideas.org/clark2.txt</a></p>
<p>For another resource is <b>Stephanie Pace Marshall’s The Power to Transform: Leadership that Brings Learning and Schooling to Life</b>. Her work is based on living systems theory, and chapter two of her book is devoted to explaining “What Living Systems Teach Us”. For more:<a href="http://www.stephaniepacemarshall.com/" target="_blank">http://www.stephaniepacemarshall.com</a><br/><br/></p>
<p>Finally, I have not read these two books but always want to in grad school. They are on my shelf for someday…</p>
<p><b>Bela Banathy</b></p>
<p><b>A Systems View of Education</b></p>
<p><b>Systems Design of Education</b></p>
<p>You can find his books on <a href="http://amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></p>
<p>Hope this is helpful.</p>
<div>Christina</div>
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<div><p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>Marianne Franke-Gricksch book "You're One of Us" (original. German title: "Du gehoerst zu uns") addresses the cooperation between teachers students and parents. Practical examples of systemic thinking in action.</p>
<p>You're One of Us! Systemic Insights and Solutions for Teachers, Students and Parents.</p>
<p><br/> "In this gripping account of her work, Marianne Franke-Gricksch speaks from her experience as a teacher and therapist, describing how systemic ideas enable fundamentally new and effective learning and encourage creative cooperation between students, teachers, and parents. Rather than viewing the participants in this process as isolated individuals, she shows how people and their environment constantly influence and change each other. Franke-Gricksch's own systemic view connects Bert Hellinger's work on the power of one's bond with his or her family of origin with various other approaches within systemic theory. The author's reports are consistently supported by practical examples from the everyday classroom situation. Especially fascinating is the children's enthusiasm and array of ideas that they use to pick up and transfer the new impulses and procedures. Readers who are new to these methods will also be amazed at the powerful effect that is released by systemic thinking and action."</p>
<p>Best wishes</p>
<p>Brigitte</p>
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<p>Hi, Jim!<br/><br/>Here are a few resources that I have utilized and learned about through my studies and work in sustainability education:<br/><b><br/>Higher Ed</b></p>
<p>Widhalm, B. (2011, March). Educators as architects of living systems: Designing vibrant learning experiences beyond sustainability and systems thinking. <i>Journal of Sustainability Education</i>, 2, ISSN 2151-7452. <a href="http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/content/educators-as-architects-of-living-systems-designing-vibrant-learning-experiences-beyond-sustainability-and-systems-thinking_2011_03/" target="_blank">http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/content/educators-as-architects-of-living-systems-designing-vibrant-learning-experiences-beyond-sustainability-and-systems-thinking_2011_03/</a></p>
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<p>Ferdig, M. A. (2007, March). Sustainability leadership: Co-creating a sustainable future. <i>Journal of Change Management, 7</i>(1), 25-35.</p>
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<p>Evergreen College Sustainability Learning Outcomes (n.d.). Retrieved from <a href="http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/project.asp?pid=62" target="_blank">http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/project.asp?pid=62</a></p>
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<p>Burns, H. (2009). Skilled in sustainability: Teaching sustainability in skills-based courses. In W. Leal Filho (Ed.), <i>Sustainability at universities: Opportunities, challenges and trends </i>(pp. 195-205). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.</p>
<p><br/>Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies <a href="http://www.csupomona.edu/~crs/regeneration.html" target="_blank">http://www.csupomona.edu/~crs/regeneration.html</a><br/><br/><b>K-12</b><br/>Center for Ecoliteracy <a href="http://www.ecoliteracy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ecoliteracy.org/</a><br/><br/></p>
<p>Stone, M. K., & Barlow, Z. (Eds.). (2005). <i>Ecological Literacy</i>: <i>Educating our Children for a Sustainable World. </i>San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.</p>
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</div> AoH in Universitiestag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-04-26:4134568:Topic:174012011-04-26T09:13:37.967ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<div><em>Tatiana asked a question (on the AoH listserve/emaillist) for Susana and Pablo in Bogota, Colombia seeking to bring AoH to universities in the city and perhaps find a way for them to recognise this as essential education for the future of the country... this is the overview we got so far...</em></div>
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<div>I teach a PhD studies in leadership course which has at its core a 2.5 day retreat which is somewhat like an Art of Hosting. I've done it for many years.…</div>
<div><em>Tatiana asked a question (on the AoH listserve/emaillist) for Susana and Pablo in Bogota, Colombia seeking to bring AoH to universities in the city and perhaps find a way for them to recognise this as essential education for the future of the country... this is the overview we got so far...</em></div>
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<div>I teach a PhD studies in leadership course which has at its core a 2.5 day retreat which is somewhat like an Art of Hosting. I've done it for many years. Last fall I hosted a 2.5 day retreat for faculty, students and community at St. Petersburg branch of University of Florida which also followed the same line. Because I was the only one hosting the space, they were not really AoH -- but close. (Bob Stilger)</div>
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<div>You may have already heard from others at Ohio State University, but we have an active community of practice going at Ohio State. I think over 200 people have gone through multi-day trainings, and others have been working with World Café and AI methods. (Rick Livingston, Monica Nissen, Toke Moeller, Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Phil Cass)</div>
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<div>Several pieces of work with Deakin University in Melbourne on Participatory Leadership (different three day trainings and have people sent to open AoH trainings). We are doing a major piece with Deakin University using AoH as the basis of culture change, management processes and even pedagogy. (Stephen Duns & Co, Monika Nissen, Toke Moeller, Mary-Alice Arthur)</div>
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<div>Using AoH with University of Tasmania on creating their values statement. They have also sent people to open AoH training.(Mary-Alice Arthur, Monica Nissen, Toke Moeller)<br/></div>
<div>In the middle of exploring with Acadia University how Participatory Leadership can be built into the training of every student who goes through - they are developing a leadership track that all students go through - PL as part of that is what we are talking about. Early stages. (Tim Merry)</div>
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<div>At university in PoliDesign - the training was on 5 days and it was on 7FP, a very special course dedicated to design and cooperation (Daniela Terille)</div>
<div><i>*note: I have asked for more detail on what University, then another person wrote related to this:</i></div>
<div><i>"I know that my two friends and mates Daniela and Paolo have used/applied AoH techniques in their regular workshops in two different universities in Italy, and some of them, in particular Paolo's students, have started applying the techniques themselves." (from Ursula Hillbrand)</i></div>
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<div>About Sergio Montiel, Toronto, "He is a good man, with many experiences in South America and in universities. I know him from the AoH participatory leadership in NYC , June 2010," (Gertrud Graf)</div>
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<div>And an uncountable number of people from universities who may have been on AoH trainings - we haven't kept track...</div>
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<div><strong>Please add your knowledge here - or stories of how AoH was and is applied in universities!</strong><i><br/></i></div>