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<\/div>\nAsheville, North Carolina<\/p>\n
We are about to begin three days of learning together, Ashley Cooper, Dana Pearlman and me. \u00a0And 27 other folks who are coming to something we called \u201cthe Art of Learning Together.”<\/p>\n
One of the core inquiries of the Art of Hosting, since it\u2019s beginning has been \u201cwhat if learning together was the form of leadership we needed now?\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s not that other forms of leadership AREN\u2019T important, but that ihis particular form is not well supported. \u00a0We think of learning as something you are doing before you become a leader. \u00a0 Something to do before you ramp up to the next level of leadership.<\/p>\n
But of course there are situations in the world – complexity, confusion, innovation, disruption – that require us to learn, sometimes almost too fast, usually only until we can make the next move \u201cwell enough.\u201d \u00a0We need tools, heuristics (my new favourite word, meaning experience based guidelines or basic principles based on previous experience) and ways of quickly understanding our experience so we can be open to possibilities that are invisible when we take a narrow view of change.<\/p>\n
Over this three days we will teach and learn about frameworks for personal and collective leadership, including Cynefin, The Lotus, and principles of improvisiation. \u00a0We will use dialogue methods of World Cafe, Pro-Action Cafe, Open Space, Circle practice and other things. \u00a0We will use movement, improvisation, music and art. \u00a0And we will employ walks in the neighbourhood, silence, reflection and raid prototyping. \u00a0We are alos going to be diving into the art of working with core teams and understanding the dynamics of power, identity and relationships as they unfold in a context that is disruptive, changing and complex.<\/p>\n