The fellowship of hosts
The problems of the war and disharmony in our world is maybe because of all the conversations that never took place... - Queen Margaret of Denmark
Art of Hosting Fellowship
A growing group of practitioners is adding to the inspiration and evolution.
A fellowship is more than a community. It is a web of practitioners connected across space and time in a high purpose of serving life, people and the needs of our communities in the world now.
We practice together and in our own lives to co-create and do good work in the wider world, wherever we are called by real need and from the heart. We are inspired by what happens when people meet with the purpose of learning and developing their own competencies together with others.
We have discovered that the principles of self-organization, participation, ownership and non-linear solutions are the key to both individual and collective discovery. This is different and complimentary to more traditional ways of working, which are often based on rational planning and full control of the process, in order to ensure that planned results are achieved.
Stewards are people who serve the deep values and principles of this work – its DNA - through their lives and their example. Nobody is elected and Art of Hosting is not an organization. If you feel called to step forward, you are a steward too.
The story of our steward gathering at the Shire July 2005 here.
Harvest of our chaordic clarity 1.0 here - and what is a Steward 1.0 here.
Communication within this web of practitioners goes mainly through the Art of Hosting email list called the conversation. You can join the list here.
More in depth conversation and knowledge sharing can happen online, on Evolutionary Nexus, where the Art of Hosting has its own community space.
The Art of hosting fellowship so far includes...
Phil Cass, Donna Alvarado, Brenda Chaddock,Tatiana Glad, Claudia Chender, Chris Corrigan, Bob Stilger, Margaret Wheatley, Carsten Ohm Andersen, Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, Ann Dosher, Susan Szpakowski, Alenka Zavasnik, Miljenka Plazonic, Jasmina Lukacevic, Sera Thompson, Sarah Whiteley, Monica Nissen, Toke Paludan Moeller, Maria Scordialos, Charlotte Mannstaedt, Tenneson Woolf, Jan Hein Nielsen, Sven Ole Schmidt, Arjen Bos, Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea, Teresa Posakony, Tim Merry, Marianne Knuth, Myriam Laberge, Susan Neden, Michael Chender, Silas Lucias, Kathy Jourdain, Ravi Tangri, Bob Ziegler, Debbie Freeze, Aerin Dunford, Ria Baeck, George Por, Tine Huge, Carman Pirie, Andrea Leary, Bob Wing, Leonora Mewton, Tom Hurley, Tova Averbuch, Marc Parnes, Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Ruben Castilla Herrera......
How to co create and support one another’s work, and be grounded and revitalized by each other’s stories, inspiration and real learnings ?
This is how this whole field started,” she says.
“You’re looking at this bacterium, which is a marine bacterium.”
It turns out that when one of these bacteria is all alone, it doesn’t glow.
After all, that would be a waste of effort
because nothing could ever see such a tiny amount of light.
But it does send out chemical signals that say, hey I’m here …
and it listens back for other bacteria sending the same signal.
When enough bacteria are doing this, they know they have a quorum.
All of a sudden, they light up and do all sorts of other things
to act in concert, like a super-organism.
