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How did you learn about Art of Hosting (please add the date and place) and what attracted you to it?: March 2014 AoH Training in Minnesota

Tell us about your experience with Art of Hosting as part of your life and work. What would you say your competence in it is? (new, starting practitioner, experienced practitioner, steward): Starting practitioner. Co-hosting an upcoming AoH in New Hampshire in October with Jerry Nagle and Kathy Jordaine

What is the primary field/topic/focus in your hosting work?: Co-learning/teaching ways to increase engagement in meetings especially in the workplace, government, and community groups. Teaching collaborative leadership

Where do you live/work?: Live in Fryeburg, ME Work in North Conway, NH

Would you like to share a web address?: http://klineseminars.com

Are there interests/passions that you'd like to share?: Writing, kayaking, personal growth, meditation/mindfulness learning/practice, hiking

Howard Stanten's Blog

The Way Forward

In the Engagement Circles and World Cafes I facilitate, a recurring pattern is emerging. This pattern is a weave of two threads. The first thread carries with it the desire we have to bring our humanity to our organizations and our work places. All of it. Not just the strands that hide…

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Posted on April 9, 2015 at 10:18am

Health Care Management Challenge: Building Trust and Social Capital Through Circle Practice

Health care organizations today are facing enormous challenges, not the least of which is long range planning in the face of acute systemic uncertainty. In the United States, The Affordable Care Act has been praised by some and vilified by others. The fact is the verdict is not yet known. This “not knowing” fuels the rampant uncertainty. Anyone who works on the financial side of health care institutions…

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Posted on December 13, 2014 at 12:56pm — 1 Comment

Build a Circle and They Will Come…

Regardless of where on the spectrum of formal structure a present day meeting may lie, a simple yet powerful assumption most often hangs in the shadows: “Silence means consent!” These words are specifically spelled out in Robert’s Rules of Order. Even meetings that take place with far less structure and order tend to make this assumption.

“Anyone have anything to add? Any further comments?…..(silence)… Good then, it’s…

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Posted on October 23, 2014 at 8:11pm

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At 12:41pm on August 13, 2014, Nancy Bragard said…: Hello, Howard, and welcome to the Art of Hosting community! Glad to see you here. Post a photo when you can so we can really "see" you here. Then join in with all the conversations. You'll find plenty of resources here, too, to help you deepen your practice. And the more you add to your profile, the more the community can learn from you and share with you. We hope you will find value in exchanging in this virtual community! By the way, I'm a New Englander myself. I live in France but grew up in Rhode Island (where I am right now visiting "home"!) and I'm so pleased to see AoH "spreading" to New England. Jerry and Kathy are good friends, how wonderful that you're hosting a seminar with them in October! Hope our paths cross at some point.