Nearly every November for the past eight years I have journeyed to Bowen Island, close to Vancouver BC, for the Art of Hosting. We are readying to once again welcome a group for this annual learning event on November 11 to 14, 2018. Last year, Scott Macklin came and made a beautiful 12 minute video capturing […]
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Doing Meetings Better
Every time we gather becomes a model of the future we want to create. – Peter Block In today’s world we live with the paradox that meetings are an important tool for leaders and change-makers, yet they can be an ineffective and expensive strategy. We are used to attending meetings we don’t know the purpose […]
As part of my preparation for the Art of Hosting on Bowen Island in February I have been reflecting on what’s alive in my work these days. An Art of Hosting learning experience is not delivered from a standard curriculum that we dust off and teach. Rather, it is informed by what inquiries participants bring […]
In October 2010 I made the short journey from my home to Bowen Island, British Columbia (just outside Vancouver) to join an Art of Hosting learning experience. I returned again in 2011, and then in 2013 was excited to join the hosting team. We had a break year in 2014 and this February I am […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Seven
My scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience are now harvested in the previous volumes. I’m left with a feeling that I have not done it justice – how can one truly harvest such an experience as we had on Bowen Island? I know I’ll look back on this in […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Six
Nearly done my harvest attempt of my scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience. Here is volume six. Journalling – process of making meaning. Invited to write the experience of the last three days as though it is a waking dream. Start there, let it write you. 10 minutes of […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Five
Volume five… the most prolific of all my scribbly notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience. My notes of hobbit tools and methods, harvested here as best I can. Knowledge Camps/Method Camps – announced as hosted topics and we had the difficult choice of which to join. I chose the five […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Four
As I work my way through my scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience, I know there was much more harvested than reflected here – like all the wonderful people I met. On to volume four. Check-in. This was not always done as a verbal check-in from everyone. One morning […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Three
Almost half-way through my harvest attempt of my scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience. Here is volume three. Berkana’s Two Loops – lifecycle of emergence. See the paper by Debbie Frieze and Margaret Wheatley, written to show that networks aren’t enough. We moved around on a large two loops […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Two
Continuing my harvest attempt of my scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience. Here is volume two. On Harvesting: What is the story? How do you want to tell it? We use participatory practices in conversation, then also use participatory harvest (e.g. two volunteers from each Art of Hosting to […]