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What Are We Learning Together in the Art of Hosting?

In 2004 the first Art of Hosting was held on Bowen Island, British Columbia. Ten years of people gathering from far and wide to re-discover and re-claim the art and practice of hosting conversations that matter. Some from those sessions have been interested in staying together and to continue their learning; to create a community […]

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change facilitating & hosting

On Action and Participatory Process

Sometimes, there are gatherings where next steps and action plans are important and necessary and are the reason why we are gathering.  But always?  No. ~ Chris Corrigan This post shares a compilation of insights from various thought leaders in the participatory process facilitation world to help shed light on when action planning could be […]

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Participatory Harvesting

Really loving the thoughts Chris Corrigan put together on the “wisdom of keeping the harvesting participatory”. His teaching of “we’re not planning a meeting, we’re planning a harvest” significantly shifted my design and facilitation of meetings, gatherings and more. This reminds me – I’ve been meaning to put together a post of some great widsomy bits on harvesting […]

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Co-creating: A Fine Line

Onto another mini-harvest from my time at the Applied Improv Network Conference. One of my main ah-has on Friday came from a break-out session and partnering with Chris Corrigan. We had done an activity where in the first part of a brainstorm I responded with a “yes but” to every suggestion Chris had, then we switched […]

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Collective Story Harvest: Weaving a Faith that Matters

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 […]

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facilitating & hosting personal reflections

Tales of a Stowaway

The stowaway was me. The ship was a committed crew doing this work in the world.  The one who helped me aboard asked me this, “So, what did you learn?” Here are a few apples I tucked in my sack: Open Space is an invitation; from forming a core team and its organic expansion, to […]

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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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When Work and Souls Collide

I read a gem of a post on my way to facilitate with a group of leaders this week. Written by Chris Corrigan, who has one of the best Twitter profiles ever (running around hosting conversations that matter), it shared his observations on the design and challenges of running a very interesting meeting. I loved […]