From last year’s gathering at Rivendell here on Bowen Island, Finn Voldtofte on four good life practices: Stay in inquiry, or stay in the ambition to stay in inquiry Stretch beyond what you know Do what you do for the sake of the whole Speak what you see and feel and allow yourself to be corrected by the field As I reflect on the results of that gathering, including the committment I made to be in inquiry around conscious evolution, I realize that Finn’s words have deeply informed my approach to hosting, to leading from within the field. I was …
One of the patterns emerging from our work in the Art of Hosting, is the practice of developing and supporting a core team that can collectively hold the bigger work that is being done. At the moment I am working consciously with the core team pattern at VIATT, with the WK Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Conference, with the Quinault Indian Nation on a tribal strategic plan and with smaller conferences and gatherings, including one next week – a conference exploring collaboration in the child welfare and family services practice field. On that one we have been working with …
Whale to human transformation mask (Haida) From Civilization.ca Harrison Owen, the guy who invented Open Space Technology, in replying to my post about stories, put some words around it � gave me the story in fact � and so I realize now that the reason I love practicing OST is that it really does invite an organization or a community to embody a new story about itself – or to rediscover very old ones. Harrison wrote: There used to be a day when the power of these deep stories was appreciated, but in recent times they are dismissed with the …