Mary Alice Arthur

Female

Copenhagen

Denmark

Profile Information:

How did you learn about Art of Hosting (please add the date and place) and what attracted you to it?
I first heard about the Art of Hosting from other facilitators and then read about Toke in Christina Baldwin's book "StoryCatcher". I contacted him to work on a facilitator's conference with me in 2007, and my first AoH training was 2008 in Melbourne.

What attracts me to it is how it creates a container for powerful work and that it is a practice, not a methodology. I also love that it is hosting, not facilitating, creating a space where everyone can step in, step up and do wise work together. And I'm really grateful hosting happens in teams. I was so ready to be part of team and work with the wisdom of the circle!
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)
My first AoH training was in September 2008 and I immediately joined another in October. We've had two AoH trainings in New Zealand, the first with 92 present. Since then I've been on many hosting teams for trainings and strategic meetings and also stepped into the stewarding circle. I'm keen to support teams wherever they are to do great work and bring forward their brilliance.
What is the primary field/topic/focus in your hosting work?
What I'm bringing to AoH is my love of story and narrative practice, as well as a passion for hosting and harvesting conversations that matter and creating containers where people can step in, step up and co-create wise action together.
Where do you live/work?
I live and work wherever my bag is! Right now I live in Copenhagen.
Would you like to share a web address?
http://getsoaring.com
Are there interests/passions that you'd like to share?
I've spent half my lifetime in the Northern Hemisphere and half in the Southern. Now I see myself as a wanderer helping to weave the world together with each conversation. I've had a go at six languages, but English and German are the ones I can work in. I'm passionate about questions, stories, metaphor, vision, and deep listening. If you've got a great movie, I'll bring the popcorn!

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  • Tana Paddock

    Thanks, Mary Alice. It's nice to be here!
  • Linda Braasch

    Thanks for welcoming me to the community.  Where is the meeting on October 11th?  
  • Jasenka Gojšić

    Thank you, Mary Alice, for your warm welcome!

    Your profile is really inspirational. It communicates to me clearly what type of info to present in order to "open" my world to the community. Nice invitation. I will accept it.

  • Michelle Murton

    Hi Mary Alice.  Thank you so much for your warm welcome.  As you suggested I did post a photo.  We had a great day planning for the AoH in Halifax.  It was so amazing meeting the hosting team.  I feel really blessed to be a part of this event. It would be so lovely to meet you in person for so many reasons...  I hope you can drop in this week.  Warmly,  Michelle
  • Paul H. Tontur

    Dear Mary Alice,

    Thank you for the warm welcome to the Art of Hosting community. My picture is added and there is a cloud to be seen - a few of my thoughts, as I am working in the field of structuring them.

    I will participate in the workshop on "graphic recording" (Oct. 20th and 21st - organized by AoH), which is exactly what I was searching for here in Vienna / Austria, as I started my business as graphic facilitator last June.

    I am looking forward to fruitful discussions, meetings and other social events within this community.

    Very best regards,

    Paul

  • Paul H. Tontur

    That's right and it tends to gush out ...
  • Michelle Murton

    Fantastic! Call us when you need a pick up. What is your dinner pleasure? Feather, leather (very good leather), fowl? Looking forward to treating you to some R and R and such.
  • Kristin Bodiford

    Thank your welcome Mary Alice and for your great teaching and leadership this week! I appreciate the generosity of time and spirit that you and Toke bring to our communities.
  • Cora Cole

    Hello Mary Alice,

    What a personal touch, I guess its true, never under estimate the power of a personla invite.

     

    I am just beginning my AoH journey officially, as many others, I believe I have been living it before I could name it.  At this moment, I feel I call to see how AoH can be used to heal.  I would like to explore how the methods, and practices can be used to heal team, organizations, communities. I feel great power to do so, but am not sure how others feel or if it has been tried.

     

    Thanks again for the note.

    Cora

  • Alena Emilova Sokolova

    Thank Mary Alice for the warm welcome ! Please, do say whenever I could be of any help from Madrid ! 

     

    Kindest regards and best wishes for many more inspiring initiatives to come !

    Alena

  • Edie meissner

    Mary alice
    I havent received the details for upcoming storytelling and harvesting. Glad to hear more.
    Edie
  • Victoria

    Thanks for the feedback and lovely welcome!

  • Jodi Sandfort

    Will do.  Hope you had a great weekend!  I wish that I could have joined in but was teaching all day Saturday and was a single mom yesterday. 

     

    Some day our paths will cross. 

  • angela chang

    Thanks Mary Alice for your welcome message, I will put a photo up asap

    Looking forward to participating

    Angela

  • angela chang

    Hi Mary Alice I added a photo, but it doesn't appear on the left, could you please let me know how I move it there? 

  • Trinnie Houghton

    What a welcoming! Thank you, Mary Alice.

  • Quanita Roberson

    The santa is up and the kids can't wait! It is so good to know you. I look forward to seeing you again.

  • Michele Martin

    Thanks, MaryAlice. Looking forward to browsing and joining the conversations!

  • Sanne Roemen

    Thank you Mary Alice, done. Nice to be welcomed personally! 

  • Linda K.

    Mary Alice:

    Thanks for the warm personal welcome. I look forward to participating in the group. Thanks, too, for the heads up on peeps in Madison - that makes me happy!

    ~Linda

  • Michelle Archuleta

    Hi Mary Alice,

    Thank you for the welcome!  I am very excited about joining, participating and most of all learning!  I am very humbled to be apart - quite frankly knowing this is just the beginning of the beginning...warmly, Michelle

  • Patricia Kistenmacher

    Thanks Mary-Ann! Your warm welcome and the chance to share with the AoH community, are inspiring. Looking forward to interact witht the whole community, to learn and to offer my own experience to others. Warm hug from hot Summer in Buenos Aires, Patricia

  • Isobel McConnan

    A stream of thanks, and adding mine too!  Thank you Mary Alice.  Finding and joining the Art of Hosting feels like coming home.  Now to find and learn my way around ... Best wishes Isobel

  • Rose Murphy

    Mary Alice, thank you for your welcome and I am glad to be here! Although struggling a little as I'm new to ning - can you tell me how to join the Burren group as I'm not appearing as a group member and wish to continue the conversation from our time together in the Burren earlier this month.

    Thank you!

     

  • Rose Murphy

    Mary Alice, thank you - gradually finding my way around!

  • Maria Steffensen

    Hi Mary Alice, thank you for welcoming me - you are indeed a warm host.

    The Art of Hosting might be the answer of my dreams; to join in a group with playmates, no university degree but people who are able to create room for communication. 

    I am used to work alone, as the lonely wolf, because my way of leading groups of people is strange and new.

    In my work with people with mental problems my way of working seems to be like water in a desert.

    Looking forward to meet people and think out loud together.

    I am living partly in Norway partly i Denmark.

  • Niklas Eklund

    Thank you for the welcome Mary, I will add a profile picture as soon as I can. Sadly I will not be able to attend in Karlskrona this year. I was already booked on those dates when I first heard about it and I can't really cancel :(

    I do hope to attend a Art of Hosting sooner or later though because i heard so much good things about them

    Cheers

    /niklas

  • Ana Lima

    Hi Mary Alice! Thank you for the welcome. 

  • Ragnar Ahlstroem Soederling

    Hi Mary Alice,

    Thank you for your welcome. I have to tell you that New Zealand is one of my favorite countries and I hope to visit your wonderful country again in June.

    Yours In Peace
    Ragnar 

  • Karen Fabbri

    Hi Marie Alice - thanks for your warm welcom. Our paths crossed some weeks/months ago during an AoH lunchtime session at the EC. I am happy to connect with you and others in a more global context.

  • Carol Clark

    Dear Mary Alice,

    thanks so much for your warm welcome. I have not met the Berlin group yet. Frauke is sharing a lot of events in the facebook group, so I hope I'll get to meet her sometime very soon.

    Warm Regards -

    Carol

  • Mira Czutka

    Thank you Mary Alice!

    I just came back from a training in Bregenz, which Ria and Ursula have been hosted. This was areally precious experience and very much mirroring my own way of dealing with groups.

    Have a wonderful sunday,

    Mira
  • Gilles Asselin

    Bonjour Mary-Alice, how are you these days? It's a bit late for a response, but guess what, better late than never! Many thanks for your warm welcome! Looking forward to more aohy encounters; and I have a picture now! Bises & hugs

  • Gilles Asselin

    Yes, dear Mary Alice,

    just like Nancy, I live on the other side of the (Hudson) river, and a bit further south!

    We New Jerseyans are a different species!!

    Bises,

    Gilles

  • Amber Vriends

    Dear Mary Alice,

    Thank you for the warm welcome! :)

    My first AoH experience in Karlskrona this year was so inspiring, also thanks to your input and energy. I'm looking forward to new experiences in Slovenia this summer.

    Amber :)

  • Markus Wittwer

    Thanks Mary Alice, will do that right away.

  • Simone G.J.Holstege

    Thanks everyone and I will keep you posted and exchange on the new activities here in Arnhem NL Its all very exciting all this wisdom and activity emerging. Simone

  • Aviva Shemesh

    Thank you for the warm welcome Mary Alice. 

  • Mothiur

    Hi Mary Alice - thank you so much for your welcome and your suggestions.  I have just booked onto the course in West Lexham - very much looking forward to it!

    Warm wishes

    Mothiur

  • Mothiur

    Hi again Mary Alice - just read your call out for the event in Slovenia - sounds amazing and captures the mood of things I have been feeling here in London.  How did it go?  

    Warm wishes

    Mothiur

    "Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent." Mevlana Rumi

     
  • Nina Thompson Williams

    Hi Mary Alice! Better late than never ;-) And it's like walking into a roomful of familiar faces

  • Patricia Neal

    thanks, Mary Alice. It is good to be in touch.

  • Paige Marie Reeves

    thanks mary alice! i'm very happy to be here! and happy to be in touch. hugs from madrid :-)

  • Shane Hopkinson

    Thanks Mary Alice


    I missed your reply the first time and its been a lot longer than I realised now I am back here.

    Interested to explore further - will update my profile.

    Cheers

    Shane

  • mark j fraire

    MAA,

    Maybe i should visit this site more often as i am just now reading your note- thanks!

    Mark

  • Jan Ungerer

    Wishing you and the hosting team a most memorable and happy gathering in Slovenia!
  • Salwa Abdel Tawab

    Thanks a lot. I am glad to become a member and hope i ll be of help as much as i am sure i ll benefit as well. 

  • Stéphane Béguin

    Thx Marie Alice!

    Happy to become a member.

  • Fedor Ovchinnikov

    Thank you Mary Alice! I am very excited to become a member of this vibrant community!

  • Juliane Martina Röll

    Thank you very much! I am happy to be here. All the best!