I’m engaged in a variety of really exciting work these days, one of which is facilitating at the second annual XYBOOM Conference happening in Vancouver on May 28th. Part of this year’s agenda is Live Case Study Stories, and I shared some questions and answers to shed some light on this portion of the agenda: 1.What […]
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Being Free
Thinking about this piece from Starhawk (Dreaming the Dark) after meeting up with some Art of Hosting mates tonight: Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, […]
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What Is This Field?
Chatting with a friend over email and she asked about the Art of Hosting and the participatory methods of facilitation, conversation hosting etc. What would we call the field or methodology that this is part of? Are they design theory / social change? I shared my thoughts and acknowledged that other people would likely have something different […]
The invitation read: WEAVING A FAITH THAT MATTERS – Collective Story Harvesting with Chris Corrigan. March 31st 9am to 1pm in the Murrayville Sanctuary. What can we learn from the last three years of our work, that we can carry forward in our evolving church? Join with the Board, Transition Executive, and LFI Dream Team as […]
One of the awesome people in my life got back from an incredible month-long journey that included an African safari. She shared the lessons she learned from her safari experience, and here they are woven with my perspective on designing and hosting conversations that matter (in italics). 1. It’s all about luck! Maybe you’ll see an […]
Tonight I played in the land of powerful questions, sparked from a soul-filling conversation with a fellow Art of Hosting mate. Here are some of them: 1. What do you need me to know right now so I can love you better? Or could be framed as: What do you need us to know so […]
In a conversation tonight with a friend who is working on two connected events that are sparking network building and collaborative action (one a larger meeting and the other a potential conference), I drew on two design helpers from the Art of Hosting community that are near and dear to my work designing conversation processes: Chaordic Stepping Stones: clear […]
We stood all around the edges of the room, alternating between looking down at the masking tape shape on the floor and the story of it that flowed from our hosts. We were learning Berkana’s theory of change: Two Loops. My messy sketch of it (or a slightly cleaned up version is here): The theory […]
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From Technician to Artist
Having one of those ahhhhhhhhh-yikes-wow moments reading Kathy Jourdain’s post There’s a Reason It’s Called “The Art of…”, talking about the art of hosting and harvesting conversations that matter. Most of us don’t just sit down at a piano and have beautiful music come out unless we are some sort of musical prodigy. Nor would […]
Loving Chris Corrigan’s post on Interior Transformation. These two excerpts in particular (emphasis mine)…. I once had a very good friend and teacher, Bob Wing, point this out to me. We were together in a small Open Space, and we were in different conversations. In my conversation a small group of us cracked a vexing problem […]