four-fold practice

Reflecting on the Four-Fold Practice

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What do you notice that feels important about the four fold path?

What insights do you have about how this model can help you in your work?

The Four-Fold Practice

The four-fold practice

Be Present - host yourself first - be willing to sit in the chaos - keep the space open - sit in the fire of the present


Participate - be willing to listen fully, respectfully, without judgment and thinking you already know all the answers

 

• Be courageous, inviting and willing to initiate conversations that matter - find and host powerful questions with the stakeholders – and then make sure you harvest the answers, the patterns, insights, learnings and wise actions


• Be willing to co-create and co-host with others, blending your knowing, experience and practices with theirs, working partnership.

Definitions

How we define the Art of Hosting will depend on what context and audience we are defining it for. Please feel free to add your definitions - when you do, please specify the context and audience you had in mind when articulating it.

 

The following definition was articulated for the culture of the European Commission in Brussels.

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