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There has been a call echoing around Ireland for a while now between practitioners. This call became louder at an Art of Hosting training in Ireland in May at the Glencree Centre. The call is saying: we need to work together! So many practitioners in the third sector are crying out that they work in isolation. So we are voicing that call, and hosting an event, Island Cafe, to generate some common understanding around the need that we have to work together. Do we need a formal structure that will allow us to share information better? Do we need more spaces for authentic converstation? Do more of us need to link into existing networks of practitioners around the world?

We, on this island, are experiencing in our own way the mega trends that are shaking the world - rising price of oil and food, isolation, lack of trust in leadership, increased wealth, increased poverty, new social challenges... The time has come for us to make more links across sectors, between organisations, between islands of experience. We are sending out an invitation to take stock together, share our ideas, concerns and thoughts, and to see if we can begin to imagine a better future. And then make it happen.
 
I am happy to share widely the fruits of this journey. And I am happy to get critical and constructive advice and responses.
Submitted by Sheila Cannon on June 30, 2008 - 13:42.

Belgium

Submitted by Ria Baeck on July 1, 2008 - 02:32.

Hello Sheila,

Good to hear the news from Ireland. I heard from Toke and Monica that it was a good art of hosting training recently. And I remember Alan who was with me in my first art of hosting training in The Netherlands, more than three years ago.

In Belgium too, at least in Vlaanderen (Flanders) we are planning to do 'something'. We have had here two AoH trainings, which were in English. One idea is to have a training now in Flemish (which is not a separate language, only a dialect from the Dutch) Our plans are not as far as yours, but surely I will be posting them too. Would be good to learn from each other.