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...
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 ...