Art of Hosting

At a recent meeting on community resiliency, after a very open, generative discussion, I asked the group to speak simply to what we were learning. One man spoke it beautifully – “you can’t have resilient community without participation.”

The Art of Hosting is and Convening Conversations is a powerful leadership training, a pattern of working and co-creating wisely with all stakeholders in a community or organization, as well as a collection of simple participation methods (including Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space Technology, Circle) that leaders are using to achieve common good.

We are exploring cohosting an event in the spring or fall of 2008 to help the many leaders in our community build capacity for engaging their communities in this way. We are also working on creating regular, simple art of hosting training programs that help meet the most pressing needs of the Salt Lake Valley.