How may we grow our capacity and courage to invite, host, and harvest the conversations that matter in our rural communities?
The Art of Hosting (AoH) workshops provide the opportunity to have these conversations and learn how to invite, hold, and lead others through such conversations – whether at the workplace, community, or home.
The AoH is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation, and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. Delegates participate in four AoH practices – The World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Two Loops, and ProAction Café.
World Café Conversations are an intentional way to create a living network of conversation around questions that matter. A Café Conversation is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes.
Instead of taking a problem-solving approach, Appreciative Inquiry offers a possibility focus, a move from “what is” to “what could be”. Based on a powerful, affirmative question, people interview each other to uncover experiences that resemble what we want to create. Tap into the latent capabilities of the group to create the success they’re seeking.
The Two Loops Model is a map of how change works in living systems. It charts the movement and relationship between systems of influence and emerging systems, and it is a helpful tool that invites leaders to reflect on where their organization is in this lifecycle and what kind of leadership is most useful.
ProAction Café is a method for creative and action-oriented conversation where participants are invited to bring their project or ideas in which they need help to manifest in the world. We have space for 12 – 18 project ideas so consider signing up! Sign up sheet is in the Link.
We will also explore Doughnut Economics.
The Doughnut offers a vision of what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century – and Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed to get us there.
Think of it as a compass for human prosperity in the 21st century, with the aim of meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet.
The Doughnut consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life’s essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that protect Earth’s life-supporting systems. Between these two sets of boundaries lies a doughnut-shaped space that is both ecologically safe and socially just: a space in which humanity can thrive.
The Doughnut is the core concept at the heart of Doughnut Economics.
* Information provided by www.doughnuteconomics.org