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Die Ausgangssituation:

Eine kleine Gruppe ( 10 Personen ) die gesellschaftspolitisch aktiv ist, muss sich aufgrund von Änderungen im Außen neu orientieren.  Fast jedes Mitglied hat eine eigene Meinung bzw. Perspektive auf das „gemeinsame“  Projekt. Es gibt wenig WIR in der Gruppe.

Daher ein Experiment:

Eine kurze Erklärung von Ken Wilbers Modell mit den 4 Quadranten zu Beginn.

Innen - Außensicht       Ich Perspektive | Gruppenperspektive.

Der Raum wird mit…

I came across this 2 month old interview of Toke in Wien.

(Hope the posterous embedding works!).

It's about 15 minutes and as usual extremely interesting.

The AoH in a nutshell part itself is the first 7-8…

I came across a post today which made me laugh, because it is soooo much déjà vu - been there, done that several times, and get biten over and over again.

I think all of us working in multilingual/multicultural environment will recognize friends and / or situations.

At the same time, this needs to be stressed over and over again, lest we should forget.

So without further ado:…

Hallo !

Eine Frage in die Runde. Gibt es Erfahrungen mit AoH im kirchlichen Umfeld?

Ich möchte dort ein wenig experimentieren, darum bin ich neugierig ob es schon anderswo auch geschieht.

Andreas

Ontario’s rural and agricultural organizations and communities are under pressure – we are all trying to do more with less to address increasingly complex challenges. This pressure also brings with it an opportunity for real change, and real change calls for a new kind of leadership. At the 2012 Leading Edge Summit - October 16 and 17, 2012, people from…

Next week, I will host 2 groups merging together - they would like to better collaborate. We have planned 3 rounds of world cafe. The current questions for each session are:

Round 1: stories of Sales & Marketing working well together

Round 2: stories of Sales & Marketing challenging situations

Round 3: ideas for better…

Enjoy this interview with Fedor Ovchinnikov and Kathy Jourdain.  The link is imbedded on my web site or you can go to blogtalkradio to listen.

Stumbled on this article on creativity by John Cleese.

Not really new, but reaffirm many good and often forgotten principles.

8 Dec 1980 - we remember.

Today, for the first time since I host, I had a day that respected the script to the minute :-) If this doesn't warrant a first blog post here, I don't see what will.

Definitely une journée a marquer d'une pierre blanche ! :-)

le wordle du matin (debut de la session):      …

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,…

When people ask me if I do “this” for a living, the answer is, of course, yes. But they don’t really know what they are asking.  They are asking about what they are witnessing or experiencing in this given moment – a specific Art of Hosting training, a planning process, a team building session, a leadership development training, a community engagement process, a …

Deep sensing interviews are a powerful tool.  In the times I’ve used them I’ve seen them help deepen relationships, deepen a field of inquiry, shift the shape of  a team, organization or system.

Deep sensing interviews are one of the tools highlighted in the Sensing…

For a such a simple little concept, the divergence-emergence-convergence model we use in the Art of Hosting sure packs a punch.  It is a simple teach that can be done in 10 minutes – or longer – if time, space and the opportunity to engage others in the conversation allows.  It sheds light on design process, the groan zone and people’s experience.  Navigating the groan zone is an art form that often arises…

It is the last morning of our 3 day Art of Hosting training in St. Paul Minnesota in mid April 2012.  We have 40 participants plus our 6 person hosting team which includes 3 apprentices. The hosting team is starting our day by checking in. Day 2 was a good example of a groan zone kind…

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…

This house has already hosted many open space and creative events...and is now for sale.

It is looking for a new steward to take it into the future. What would you do with it ?

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