I've been noticing that I haven't moved as much towards my biggest goals as I would like at the moment. Instead of berating myself and pushing harder, I've realised I need to cut myself some slack.
While it may seem that I am in the valley between "back then" and "what happens next,"storytellers k...
I really enjoy being in conversation with other practitioners and hearing what's going on in other parts of the world. This week I was on the monthly Art of Hosting auf Deutsch Stammtisch call -- a time when German speakers get together to share news and insights. (And yes, I was speaking German, I ...
In June I was in Sweden hosting another Art of Powerful Questions workshop for a client. This work is like play for me -- I LOVE working with questions! They are not only a very practical leadership tool, but also a powerful opening to new possibilities and potential through seeing things in a new ...
At the end of May I was in Budapest stewarding an Art of Hosting training. Hungary is a place like many others. Control is rising. Activists and community workers are feeling despondent, desperate for resources and under threat. We don't know how much longer we can bring participatory practice.
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The "Am Ende ist alles Gut" podcast with Mareike Tiede
Twenty vibrant souls joined us for the Flow Game Host training in Berlin at Beachmitte April 11 - 13. At the same time, two historical threads were weaving themselves together. Toke Møller and I left Denmark for Berlin on April 9, the day 50 years ago when the Nazis invaded. We named for ourselves t...
I was in Innsbruck, Austria at the beginning of May for an Art of Hosting training. It had been seven years since the last training at Haus der Begegnung and a fresh challenge for me to see if I could deliver a training and work in German for five straight day.s
During one of the World Café round...
During the Art of Hosting training in Innsbruck last week, someone posted a session in Open Space that really caught my eye -- What does potential need to become visible?
You might also ask it like this: What is needed in me/us to be able to notice the potential that is hidden in every moment, e...
As you probably figured out by now, bees are my heroes.
Not only do they naturally produce the most robust structure in nature -- the hexagon -- but also the only foodstuff on the planet that doesn't spoil -- honey.
I call my time being in groups, deep in the buzz of working well together, "bein...
At the beginning of April I was part of a team preparing for an Art of Hosting training in western Denmark. The venue was a former boy's school transformed into a retreat centre, Himmelbjerggåarden, close to the "Sky Mountain" where so many Danes have gathered for more than a century to be in dialog...
Where are your places of practice? Who is your community?
Back in 2008 I was part of a conference hosting team in Takayama, Japan. We were invited by the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), the forerunner of the International Association of Facilitators, to host the different parts of the then UN ...