Online first Tuesday each month

Origin & Evolution Stories

A thriving community of practice depends on deep understanding and application of methods and models. Knowing the lineage and history of what shapes the field of participation is one of the offerings of Beehive Productions.

Beehive is focused on serving "the central garden" -- the place which nourishes the core of all participatory practices and supports us to centre our humanity.

Join us at these upcoming online storytellings to unpack the origins of the methods and models that are core to group work: 

• September 1: 

Register for each separate conversation for US$10 or buy an annual subscription and view all the previous Origin Stories.

First Tuesdays of the month

Online September 16

Storytelling as Worldmaking

VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE: An evening of storytelling for people who love and work with stories and value their impact.

Four different storytellers, four different views of how stories work. The Virtual Roundtable features: Storytelling as Worldmaking with Mary Arthur Alice, Dougald Hine @dougaldh, Francis Laleman @francismuktibodh, & Joep de Jong @joep.c.dejong

Each has been called to tell stories and find out what “story” is made of and made with, and how “storyworlds” create enchantedness, elegance and beauty.

When infused with soul and grounded imagination, storytellers become responsible and ethical designers of beautiful worlds. These worlds are mirrors of our present reality and also doorways of transformative potential.

Storytellers don't make their storyworlds in isolation; they engage deeply with the primeworld while inviting to hear, listen, participate, and co-create together, joining forces in turning faithfulness into meaningfulness. This implies worldmaking as dynamic process, created by the movement between the storyteller and the listener, and not a passively observed distant spectacle of entertainment. Likewise, it is inadequate to imagine our way to possible futures, but rather the future is being met now, by acting with it, however incomplete but whole.
 

Dillijan, Armenia July 13 - 16

Art of Hosting 

• host conversations that matter
• active collective intelligence in groups
• work with complexity and uncertainty
• support participation and shared leadership

There's so much more to learn about story!

Amazing self-paced learning experiences are waiting for you right now in the digital library! 

Learn at your own pace, when and where you want.

Ideal both for those beginning their story journey and advanced practitioners.

Our offerings include:

• IMAGINE is the support kit you need to create your greatest year ever. Take the step-by-step journey into your new future.
• FREEDOM invites you to recognize that freedom is not a matter of state, but of mindset. It offers potent and mind expanding steps towards creating more freedom in your life. 
• STORY THE FUTURE & 65 ALIVE! together include 50+ hours of self-paced learning about story with interviews  from over 80 international speakers.
• Download "The 10 Practices of Story Activism" e-book
• More content on the way!

Online Nov 12, 19 & Dec 3, 10 

AI & Facilitation

Can participatory practice and AI come together in a way that strengthens our human connections and ability to collaborate? 

Hosting at the Edge of our Humanity

Together, we are exploring practical applications, ethical considerations, and the deeper questions about what it means to facilitate in a world increasingly shaped by technology and digital intelligence.

This offering invites you to reflect on the delicate balance between hosting human connection and collaboration by building trust and cultivating personal connections and creating collective insights while working with rapid evolving technology and AI.

Through four real-time online conversations and prerecorded interviews with practitioners and thought leaders who are well versed in using AI, we will delve into how artificial intelligence can both challenge and enhance participatory processes.

You can join at any time. More recorded interviews are being added each week.

Hosted by the Beehive Productions Team:: Amy Lenzo, Rowan Simonsen & Mary Alice Arthur

Online November 19, 26 & December 3, 10

Online, begins April 7 

At Work in the Ruins

How do we stay in relationship and what have we learned about collaboration that we need now in these times of turbulent change?

It would be easy to believe we are facing the end of the world. But as our oldest myths and stories remind us -- the end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world.

So what can we do when we are facing chaos and finding ourselves sitting in the ruins -- however you are experiencing right now?

How can we make a space within ourselves and together to turn and face the sense of loss, grief, anger and overwhelm that breakdown thrusts upon us?

How can we stay together when everything around us seems to be falling apart?

Especially as people who have worked as changemakers and who hold spaces for people to make good change together, what do we need to learn from these times?

Dougald Hine's book At Work in the Ruins offers us four tasks that can help us make sense of what is taking place.

There is work to do, even in the ruins.

Join us for a collective inquiry into how we accompany each other in this time of collapse and profound change.

5 online sessions

March 2

The Art of Powerful Questions

This is a free online session offered as a follow up to the first session during IAF's Facilitation Week in February

One of the fastest ways to create change, find creativity or kickstart innovation is through the Art of Powerful Questions.

A question can open new doors, let in some fresh thinking, close the gap between people, be a bridge to understanding. You can hold a serious question and still find the inquiry fresh and fun!

Finding, shaping and living a powerful question is a key leadership and life skill everyone needs in their back pocket. For facilitators and those who work in groups, questions are the key to good process

Join me for a quick 90 online session to find, craft and sharpen a question that matters to you now and then to experience taking that question into the Flow Game to receive some good wisdom from your peers.

This offering is supported by five Flow Game hosts from around the world.

We had such a great response to this session in February, I decided to do it again! Join us!

Available now

A simple way to kickstart your storytelling

It's been a tough couple of years. It would be easy to think we're living in story of despair or breakdown, but what if we want it to be different?

If our stories create our future, then let's start with the stories that will make a difference. 

Stories remind us of good times we've had, memories we've gathered, and what we've learned through the tough times.

We CAN change the world. One love story at a time…

It's simple and easy. Every day for 28 days, you'll receive a digital postcard with a short prompt.

Use it to think about a memory, a story or an appreciation. Write it down and send it to someone you care about. There's no better time then now for us to remind each other who we can be together.

P.S. This is also a quick and easy way to begin to work with your own stories and unleash your creativity!

Denmark May 1 - 3

The Heart of Practice

What is your practice? Who are you in practice with?

Many of us feel that we are at an important inflexion point in the world. At this time of confusion and turmoil, your solid ground is inside you and between you and others. 

What we do now will ripple into the future. 

Toke Møller, Mary Alice Arthur, Rowan Simonsen and Maja Rottbøll been exploring individually and collectively for decades about what the heart of practice really means.

What lies beneath the practice patterns we love and use? What can make the difference now? What are the mother practices that can hold us in these times?

Together we will dive deeply into what's at the very heart of practice and the practice of the heart as a host, a leader, a team mate, an activist, a thought leader and as a deeply rooted human being.

We will look at what's at the core and what's at the edges, and give you spaciousness to discover the best of you.

Join us in one of the most beautiful corners of Denmark for a retreat that nourishes the practitioner's heart, mind and soul.

Join the journey of a lifetime 

Story & Question Adventure

Discover the power of stories and questions by taking a handcrafted adventure.

Stories and Questions are your power partners.

• STORIES help you reassess how you see and live your life. They can help you understand what kind of life you want to lead from this moment on. 
• QUESTIONS help you open your curiosity to find new ideas. They help find and explore new ways to be creative and successful.

A daily prompt arrives in your inbox to set the focus for the day. What you discover just might change your life!

Adventures vary from six to 28 days. You can choose the focus.

Choose from:

A smorgasbord of STORY ADVENTURES will shine a light on the stories that shape you and help you shape the world. 

An offering of QUESTION ADVENTURES will take you around the outer and inner worlds. Meet challenges, deepen your relationships, create your future.

Ready? Let's go!

Fire up your future with IGNITE

Are you at the point where you know there's more, but you don't know how to get there?

A mastermind is a fast and effective way to get traction on the stories you're living in and so you can step into your most successful future. A Mastermind  group can support you put the finger on exactly how to make story your ally to ignite your dreams.

Experience:

• Personal attention from Mary Alice
• The weekly Hotseat where we focus on pouring wisdom and targeted practical advice into each participant in turn
• Deep connection and community to support you in taking the next steps with confidence
• Weekly personal inspiration to meet you where you are and lift you into the future you desire

Wise coaching. Expert advice. Group wisdom. Personal attention. 

Online December 28 & 29 

THRIVE!

“I know it’s time to think bigger, to step into my power, to rise to the next level. I want 2024 to be my year, but I don’t know how!”

Something is calling for change. The old ways of being and working just aren't working anymore.

Maybe it's the job that doesn't fit. Maybe it's an outworn identity that's too small and no longer serving.

Take time for YOU & step into the new year with clarity 

 Join us online and take a time of retreat and focus for yourself. 

Using the powerful building blocks of personal story, potent questions and wisdom council, Thrive! offers you the gift of considering who you want to be, what that looks like and how you can get there. 

Come and be hosted in a time of deep reflection, breakthrough conversations and taking the next elegant step.

You will come away with a deep sense of commitment to your next significant steps into your vibrant future, as well as a network of others to support you.

THRIVE! is a workshop for people who want to live their power.

28 & 29 December Online 

Online January 1 - 7

By The Fireside

Shape the story of who you want to be in 2024 together with a community that will help you bring your vision to life

If you want to meet the world with courage and strength, the most positive thing you can give to yourself is the gift of mastering your own story. Being at home in yourself means the past can offer up wisdom, the present can be an opportunity and the future can present unexpected gifts.

Join me at the fire in the first days of the new year for a deeply personal journey into your own story.

Knowing where you are in your story is the first step to beginning to see, appreciate and change the landscape of your life. 

We will support you to turn your story from what defines you into your ally and creative companion for success.

You'll discover the support of new friends from all over the world in our circle.

Find the gold in your stories and let them help you to soar. It's time to find your voice, claim your story and start living your brilliant life!

Online August 27/28

"Who am I now?" 

Feel like you need a place to stop and figure out who you are now?

So many of us are facing challenges in life that seem never-ending. The pace of change feels overwhelming. It leaves us asking deep inside: "Who am I now in the face of this?"while trying to keep up on the outside.

We feel it too. That's why we're offering a open series of conversations you can join with others who are also asking "Who am I now? What is mine to do?" Together we'll look for the wisdom that comes when you have a conversation that really matters.

The "Who am I Now?" Conversations are designed as a two hour "sabbatical" from your everyday life. Give yourself the time to really sink into the conversation and be in inquiry with us. This is a time to slow down in order to go fast.

Our next conversation takes place: 

August 27: 3:00 - 5:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 - 8:00 pm Eastern /  which is also August 28 8:00 - 10:00 East Coast Australia / 10:00 - 12:00 New Zealand

These conversations are anchored by Mary Alice Arthur & Amy Lenzo, two very seasoned online group hosts, with a changing team of other talents bringing their unique contributions.

Free Online August 27/28