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Art of Hosting is a simple yet powerful process to design and facilitate conversations and workshops that tap into the whole potential of a group and its individuals. Art of Hosting takes a holistic approach beginning with understanding the underlying purpose of a gathering, how to invite participants, planning and accompanying the conversation, and harvesting the outputs in a useful manner.
AoH is an open-source social technology that incorporates (but is not limited to) methods such as:
Much of the art and power of the Art of Hosting approach comes not from any individual method but learning to blend and tailor a combination of methods to serve the need and purpose of the unique context a practitioner is working with using an understanding of underlying patterns of process design. |
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The Art of Hosting is a highly effective way of stepping into Participatory Leadership through harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes to invite people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them.
Many people experience meetings that waste time, conversations that feel more like debates, and invitations to input which turn out to be something altogether different. People want to contribute, but they can’t see how. Leaders want contribution, but they don’t know how to get it. |
The Art of Hosting is more than a suite of methods – it is also a practice. We call it the Art of Hosting because it is an art to become skillful at helping ourselves and others work well together, especially in these times of increasing complexity. We talk about hosting, because what is offered here is not a typical facilitation or moderated session. It gives attention and care to all aspects of people’s work together, intending to host them in being successful, just as any person welcoming guests will make sure they have everything they need to make their visit fruitful.
The Art of Hosting takes into account the whole process – all the preparations before the participants come together, what happens while they are working together, and how the results of their conversation – the ‘harvest’ – support next steps that are coherent for their purpose and context. |
What will we learn & practice together?
Meaningful conversation, participatory leadership, effective democratic practices and learning how to work collaboratively in emergence are ways of moving into wiser action together.
The Art of Hosting is a 4-day residential training designed for learning simple yet powerful practices that build community, activate collective intelligence and foster individual and collaborative leadership practices that give us the capacity to navigate the complexity of our world as it is today.
The purpose of the training is to:
During the training we will explore a range of participatory tools, concepts and methods.
Meaningful conversation, participatory leadership, effective democratic practices and learning how to work collaboratively in emergence are ways of moving into wiser action together.
The Art of Hosting is a 4-day residential training designed for learning simple yet powerful practices that build community, activate collective intelligence and foster individual and collaborative leadership practices that give us the capacity to navigate the complexity of our world as it is today.
The purpose of the training is to:
- Explore, learn and practice collaborative means of responding to complex systemic challenges in our communities through engaging conversations that matter.
- Build individual and organizational capacity for participatory leadership across all levels of society within Northern Europe and the wider region.
- Foster a community of practice that may together find paths to, as the poem so eloquently invites, take our troubled beauty forward.
During the training we will explore a range of participatory tools, concepts and methods.
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See Harvest from previous years.
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