harvesting

Harvesting essential conversations: an evolutionary perspective

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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Hosting and holding the Art of Hosting as a field

I felt the inner need to bring a lot of conversations and ideas together, and harvest it out to our community and especially to the stewards. Please read first the article written by Bob Wing and myself after our conversations late Summer. I first try to paint the picture of what 'the whole' is about, and then end this piece with some of the questions that I see.

I know that a lot here is written in short style, not much flesh to the bones... but please ask or add your comments, ideas and build on it further! 

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Our collective leap!

Today is Thursday. I am back home in my ‘normal’ work, giving several individual coaching sessions during the day. The Axladitsa Guardians gathering, which finished last Friday, is still very much present.

First of all I want to give you the link to the pictures I took during that time. I added some descriptions here and there, in that way it became a little story on its own.
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Axladitsa Guardians Gathering - Presencing a Collective Being

Unless we engage our authentic selves, we cannot live the future now
Unless we engage our fullness, we cannot take the leap individually and call in collectively
Unless we tremble collectively, we cannot presence the new
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The Art of Hosting the book on AoH

Honoring all the beautiful intentions and (unsuccessful) efforts that went already in realizing the idea of an AoH book, I copy here what I learned about them from Monica's email:  read more »
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