Contact: Ria Baeck: ria.baeck@community-intelligence.com Heerlijckyt van Elsmeren, Geetbets by Bruxelles -

The Art of Hosting conversations that matter at Heerlijckyt van Elsmeren

Contact: Ria Baeck

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This training is built on the assumption - and experience – that seeking change for the common good calls for involvement, collective intelligence and co-creation to discover solutions and wise actions.

Human beings that are involved and invited to work together will take ownership and responsibility when the ideas and solutions must be put into action.

Initiating and hosting conversations that matter is a core leadership competence that leads to significant change at both individual and collective levels.

Your hosting team:

We are all involved with organizing, designing and hosting inspired spaces across the business, social-profit, civil society and public sectors – supporting life-affirming leadership, interactive learning, organisational and social change and self-organisation.

We have come together through the inspiration to bring this work to others.

We look forward to seeing you soon!
Toke, Ria, Monica, George, Tatiana

Toke Paludan Moeller InterChange Denmark
Since the early 1970s, Toke has spent years organising, designing, and hosting inspired spaces – dialogues, strategic change processes, learning conferences, circle councils, networked organisations – each in support of life-affirming leadership, interactive learning, organisational and social transformation and self-organisation. He is co founder and C.E.O. of InterChange, a training and consulting company, and is a partner in Days Like This (http://www.days.dk). Toke is former Chairman of the Board of the Danish Entrepreneurs Association, as well as of professional conference organisers (PCO). He is one of the co creators of The Art of Hosting and The Flow Game.

Monica Nissen InterChange Denmark www.interchange.dk
For the past 12 years I have worked as a process consultant, using interactive,
participatory group processes in my work- relying on the collective intelligence
and creativity to bring about sustainable development and transformation for
individuals as well as organizations. My focus is the conceptual leadership as
well as process design and facilitation including "Learning Ecology". This
includes documentation, graphic facilitation - as tools for securing out-put and
shared knowledge and feeding it back into the "system" as well as creating a
collective memory. Monica is one of the co creators of The Art of Hosting and The Flow Game.

Ria Baeck Vitis-tct Belgium www.vitis-tct.be
Ria is fascinated by communities – in work and in daily life –and how we can
make them work. She is a self-employed psychotherapist who combines deep
compassion, bodily awareness and a lust for life. Her focus is always on the
here-and-now; doing the action right now instead of talking about it. She
founded Vitis whose core purpose is to bring deep transformation in individuals,
organisations and society.
Ria is a coach with a lot of experience in individual and group work. She
initiated different new forms of collaboration on the edge of community and
collective leadership.

George Pór Communityintelligence Ltd www.community-intelligence.com
George Pór is an innovation architect, leadership educator, techno-communitarian visionary, publisher of the Blog of Collective Intelligence, and a social entrepreneur.
Former Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD, he is the founder of CommunityIntelligence Ltd, and co-creator of Evolutionary Nexus. George is a pioneer of knowledge ecology and communities of practice, with 20 years professional experience in those fields. He blends European values, American dynamism, and lessons learned from ancient wisdom traditions. George is committed to the possibility of a world, in which work as creative self-expression ceases to be a privilege of the few.

Tatiana Glad Engage! InterAct The Netherlands/ Canada
www.engage.nu/interact
With a background in corporate change and sustainability issues, Tatiana is
passionate about exploring how meaningful conversations generate meaningful
action for our companies, communities and our planet. Her work spans the
corporate, civil society, public and (social) entrepreneurship sectors. Tatiana
splits her time between Amsterdam, where she is a partner of Engage! InterAct
, and Toronto, where she co-founded a social enterprise Waterlution
(www.waterlution.org).

What could my leadership also be?

October 11–13: Art of Hosting - Basic Training

October 14: Art of Hosting – at work

 

 This training is not for spectators...

* Our learning will grow out of participant contributions and presence – we will support each other as co-learners.

* We will learn by observation, experience and practice, using interactive processes to build a safe and inspiring learning environment – we will explore Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Circle, Council, World Cafe, and other participatory methodologies.

* Taking a chance to explore and experiment with applying these tools to your
own projects-in-progress will help you to apply your skills, as well as develop and continue a new practice that will last well beyond this
training.

* Learning will include how to feed conversations back into communities, with a balanced approach of online and face to face conversations.

This training will explore and support…
• Hosting meaningful conversations as a core leadership practice and competence.
• The conditions needed to create space for meaningful conversation.
• Specific interactive processes through which learning and creation can
emerge.
• Sensing and shaping the conditions and timing for using particular methods
and tools.
• How the practice of hosting is relevant to key areas in each of our lives and work.
• How the Art of Hosting is an organising pattern and culture that invites new
ways of living and working.
Context and background

How do I create authentic involvement that leads to real implementation?

 

 October 14, Art of Hosting at work:

co-creating a (regional) learning community

 

The Art of Hosting workshop does not only provide you with skills for hosting
conversations that matter; it is also connects you with fellow hosting practitioners. The fourth day is dedicated to seed an unfolding process towards a network of colleagues in hosting meaningful conversations that make a difference for communities and organizations.

We invite you to co-create this circle of practitioners who want to further develop their competence, inquire into the next evolution of democracy in our organizations and society, and work together for a sustainable, participatory future. That day of the workshop you can:

• Work on your own project, bringing the insights gleaned from the workshop into your present or future hosting activities, supported by experienced Art of Hosting professionals

• Cross-pollinate questions, ideas across different working fields, and form learning partnerships with those concerned by the same issues
• Discover collaborative project opportunities with your colleagues, e.g. cohosting conversations and communities, blending methods and practices with
specialties of others, etc.

May our network become part of and support a shift towards a more sustainable
future.

May it assist you, with shared knowledge and relationships, in becoming an as effective facilitator of change in organizations and communities, as you can.

Participants of the basic course are ncouraged to invite colleagues, fellow
facilitators, hosts and communityorganisers who want to join in this
future to come; even if they didn't participate in the first three days!

If this is calling to you, and you are not able to join in the basic training, please
come for this co-creative day!

 Your hosting place:

 

Heerlijckyt van Elsmeren is an outstanding meeting place for
workshops, projects or events for personal enhancement, group or
organizational development and social commitment.

In July 2004 it regained its original name and character of a “Heerlijckyt”.

Once again, life and work, pleasure and effort have become one.
In the Heerlijckyt we practice the art of hosting also in a physical sense. It is a perfect place to enjoy the peace of nature, an ecologically sound architecture
and warm human contacts in pleasant and welcoming surroundings.

We develop the manor as an example of social commitment
and ecological sustainability. We develop intense partnerships with guests and training organizations willing to help us in building a unique platform for
personal, organizational and social growth. We belief that in present times development requires an integral instead of a fragmented approach.
It is within this context that we engaged in an active partnership
with The Art of Hosting. It is our aim to spread it in Belgium and beyond.

We are happy to host the Art of Hosting!
Lieven and the staff
http://www.heerlijckyt.org/