At the end of May I was in Budapest stewarding an Art of Hosting training. Hungary is a place like many others. Control is rising. Activists and community workers are feeling despondent, desperate for resources and under threat. We don't know how much longer we can bring participatory practice.
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The "Am Ende ist alles Gut" podcast with Mareike Tiede
Twenty vibrant souls joined us for the Flow Game Host training in Berlin at Beachmitte April 11 - 13. At the same time, two historical threads were weaving themselves together. Toke Møller and I left Denmark for Berlin on April 9, the day 50 years ago when the Nazis invaded. We named for ourselves t...
I was in Innsbruck, Austria at the beginning of May for an Art of Hosting training. It had been seven years since the last training at Haus der Begegnung and a fresh challenge for me to see if I could deliver a training and work in German for five straight day.s
During one of the World Café round...
During the Art of Hosting training in Innsbruck last week, someone posted a session in Open Space that really caught my eye -- What does potential need to become visible?
You might also ask it like this: What is needed in me/us to be able to notice the potential that is hidden in every moment, e...
As you probably figured out by now, bees are my heroes.
Not only do they naturally produce the most robust structure in nature -- the hexagon -- but also the only foodstuff on the planet that doesn't spoil -- honey.
I call my time being in groups, deep in the buzz of working well together, "bein...
At the beginning of April I was part of a team preparing for an Art of Hosting training in western Denmark. The venue was a former boy's school transformed into a retreat centre, Himmelbjerggåarden, close to the "Sky Mountain" where so many Danes have gathered for more than a century to be in dialog...
Where are your places of practice? Who is your community?
Back in 2008 I was part of a conference hosting team in Takayama, Japan. We were invited by the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), the forerunner of the International Association of Facilitators, to host the different parts of the then UN ...
This is the third part of our look at Malcom Gladwell's book Revenge of the Tipping Point. This part of his work mirrors what I always tell people:
The story of place is always working in the background. You are in it, so you'd better be aware of it.
In fact, Gladwell says it like this: "Com...
What is it that we can do together that none of us can do alone?
Here's Part 2 to my report on Malcom Gladwell's book "Revenge of the Tipping Point."
This is what most of us think of as a "superspreader" -- someone who is sneezing loudly in a public place. Recently I heard one parent talk about their kindergarten aged kids as "germ factories." 🤢
But, and only...