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Art of Hosting Journal

This journal is a work in progress. The skeleton is based on the Journal offered to participants at the Art of Hosting training in Belgium in March 2008.

Coach - in training hosting teams

Besides the role of the Client - in the training hosting teams - there is the role of the Coach, who is coaching the little hosting team in order that they can fulfill their assignment.

The coach will offer:

- a (deeper) teaching of the methodology

- availibility on the teams invitation

- create an agreement of the relationship

- support to be bold and wise

Client

Within an Art of Hosting training we aim at giving participants from early on the opportunity to learn by practicing. They will form little hosting teams to prepare parts of the next days program. In order to make this work, these little hosting teams have a Client - the one who gives them the task - and a Coach.

The Client will offer:

- the purpose of the session

- the context in which this needs to happen

- the challenge of the session

- the givens (timeframes, rooms, amount of people)

- the criteria for success

- the purpose of the harvest: immediate and/or beyond

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Art of Hosting - A Rave

Just a few days ago I participated in an Art of Hosting training, after Helen insisted for a couple of times, and I'm very happy I did. (You can find a lot of pictures of the event here.)

 


Taking the train back to Berlin I wrote the following rave...

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