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Harvesting essential conversations: an evolutionary perspective

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Dedicated to the global community of practitioners of the art of hosting conversations that matter.

This blog post sprang from a conversation between George Pór, Matthieu Kleinschmager and Helen Titchen Beeth in Brussels in September 2008. The conversation was prompted by our shared passion for capturing the essence of conversations that we have participated in so that they can have a longer life and a greater impact than just the fading memories and flip-chart sheets of the original participants.
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Submitted by Helen Titchen Beeth on December 15, 2008 - 21:58.

The Art of Hosting training in Belgium - Oct'06

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Context of the Art of Hosting training

More and more leaders—people who want to help—yearn to experience and practice a different kind of leadership. We sometimes need to focus on ourselves, sometimes on our teams, sometimes on our communities—sometimes all three simultaneously. We yearn for leadership that sets free ours and other people’s creativity and intelligence. It is a leadership that is willing to let go of control in order to achieve the cooperation and results that our times call for.
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Not just any talk...

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Not just any talk is conversation

 

Not any talk raises consciousness

good conversation has an edge

It opens your eyes to something

It quickens your ears

 

And good conversation reverberates

It keeps on talking in your mind later in the day;

The next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said

The reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness

Your mind and heart have been moved

Your are at another level with your reflections.

 

James Hillman

Submitted by Ria Baeck on March 21, 2008 - 11:42.
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