Excited to share this video of me talking about hosting real conversation, the ancient practice of circle, hosting yourself, and using powerful questions. Gratitude to Ryan Mah & Mahyar Saeedi for their talented video production and editing, and for including me in the Designed to Speak series. If you are curious about learning about circle process, consider joining […]
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Digging back through books I’ve read and came across this group activity from Joanna Macy’s Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World: Closing the eyes, they imagine moving forward thirty years in time; from that vantage point and in response to three questions from a child, they look back at the […]
One of my teachers, Christina Baldwin, shared a great article called The Flight from Conversation by Sherry Turkle. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Two sentences that articulate why I believe, even with all our technological enhancements, there will always be a […]
Have you heard of CreativeMornings? It’s a free monthly morning gathering for creative types. Each event includes mingling, a 20 minute talk where the topic for presenters is open, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. I’m lucky to be on the organizing team (hat tip to Mark Busse for calling together such a rockin’ […]
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Brene Brown on Connection
I just watched Brene Brown’s TEDx Houston’s talk about vulnerability and connection. Resonated big time with Art of Hosting for me. Here are a few notes and thoughts sparked as I listened to her talk: Connection… hosting conversations that matter is about connection, seeing people (reminds me of the South African greeting Sawa Bono/Sikhona). Excruciating […]
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Musings on Holding Space
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to work with a group who wanted to create some plans for 2011. I drew on the Chaordic Stepping Stones to clarify the high level purpose, the principles, the people and the meeting concept, guided by the mantra that “we aren’t planning a meeting, we’re planning a […]
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Diamonds and Elevators
Funniest line to appear in my inbox recently: “Signing off until the next edition, which we promise will come sometime in the next 2 to 17 months.” Who from but the fabulous Heath Brothers with their wisdom-rich nuggets and great sense of humour. I finally read one of the articles they suggested (hint: it’s about […]
Many years ago I read about retiring the standard small talk question “What do you do?” You know the scene: you meet someone at an event, introduce yourselves and within moments one of you will ask that question. And while it does promote social civility, it doesn’t do much for helping the conversation progress into […]