How do you stay the course?
This past week I've had many interesting conversations with people all over the globe. In a call with a practitioner friend today, she admitted to me that she regularly wakes up in the night with anxiety and a racing mind. She told me about a term I wasn't familiar with ...
HINT: it's one of the key skills of a great host as well.
It's holding space.
This concept -- and it's practice -- can be hard for practitioners who are focused on methods to understand because you don't appear to be doing anything. But in fact, you are doing one of the most important things...
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I've just returned to Ohio from Guelph, a small city (sometimes called "The Royal City") just outside Toronto in Canada. If you've never heard of it, you're not alone, although that also means you don't know about "Guelphiness" or that it is both an agricultural and an innovation hub.
Guelph sits ...
They say that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I've also learned that if the inquiry is sincere, the opportunity arises...
Since the beginning of the year I have been journeying with the question: "What is life helping me see about my journey into eldership and stewarding?" So I shou...
I've been quiet for some time now, just cooking on my last journey and reflecting on the state of our world. There are two stories that stick with me from my very brief week in Istanbul. They reflect two lenses on what is happening and how we can host it.
The first is a moment in our Art of Hosting...
Do you ever feel you speak a different language to other people? And I'm not talking about all the flavours of English out there (which believe me, are wide and varied, the idioms will get you every time!).
Two words I use a lot are PRACTICE and PRACTITIONER. I often hear crickets when I mention th...
On Monday I celebrated my birthday in Tisvilde, a small town I like very much on the Northern coast of Denmark. At the intersection of forest and ocean there's a stillness and a slowness that feels like a blessing.
Last night I sat on a rock talking with a friend on Facetime, showing her the house ...
One of the great joys of my work is the opportunity to peek behind the scenes in organisations and teams to help them find their courageous stories and host them to life.
I spent all last week in Malmö, Sweden alongside a team hosting a team into being through what we called "The Art of Leading Toget...
What an amazing time we had at the AoH Practitioners Gathering on March 18!
It was an amazing 17 hour odyssey on Zoom, with people from all over the world contributing, learning and participating. THANK YOU for joining of us, those of you who did it with us!
We loved hearing back from many of you ab...
I’ve just spent a very quiet time on the beach next to the sea in northern Denmark, and also together with my old friends and mates Toke Moeller and Monica Níssen.
We’ve known each other now for almost 15 years. It’s been time enough to be in a deep and focused practice together, working on the Art ...