All Blog Posts Tagged 'Art' (9)

Dear all, 

Some of you have already registered. If you consider joining us for a 3 day intensive training in Lisbon, Portugal on 22-25 September, I'd like to let you know that Early Bird rates will be available until this Friday, June 17th.

Durante los días 25, 26 y 27 de septiembre disfrutamos de la formación de Art of Hosting en un formato taller residencial en plena naturaleza, en el fértil valle de la Vera (El cielo de la Vera). Nuestra pregunta motor fue:

¿Cómo impulsamos el poder transformador de personas, equipos y organizaciones para crear juntos otro mundo basado en la colaboración y la participación?

Tuvimos…

How is it we can take a group of people who may or may not know each other, throw them into a prep or planning day together and have them emerge out the other side as a team, ready to co-create and co-host a three or four day Art of Hosting training, to greater or lesser degrees as a cohesive, fluid team?

In the last few years, I have had powerful experiences of this happening in Atlantic Canada,…

Every place we go has its own tone, texture and timing.  It is part of what makes Art of Hosting - or in the case of California in August 2012, the Art of Participatory Leadership and Social Innovation - so hard to define. "We" being whatever configuration of hosting and calling team has…

What is art without technique and is technique alone really art?  "Art" could mean art as it evokes the image of artwork but, really, it is much broader than that -  dance, fitness, sport, yoga, meditation, music, hosting, the work we are in.

I've been in a beautiful reflection after a delicious conversation recently with good friend and hosting colleague Jerry Nagel. We were discussing upcoming work in…

Our world moves so fast we all want it done now, or yesterday – whatever “it” is. The paradox is, we don’t have time to go fast anymore. But it’s not just about slowing down. It’s slowing down, adding in intentionality, purposefulness and patterns of movement – often non-linear and iterative – to take us to places we’ve never been before but that we’ve dreamed and know have to be possible. We want to get to this new place but we keep repeating the patterns that have never gotten us there…

Anyone who has ever wanted to call an Art of Hosting training has, in all likelihood, been told how important it is to have seasoned hosts – or stewards – as part of the hosting team. What does it mean to steward and why is this role so important in the Art of Hosting community and in individual training offerings?

I wanted to…

Double Torqued Ellipse, Richard Serra

Photo credit: http://islasterritorio.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html



Somewhere in the beginnings of my adult thinking about circle work, I had to acknowledge that I am my father’s daughter.



My father…