Larger hosting teams

Notes on hosting roles/calling roles from an airplane flight with Christina and Teresa as we were talking about a large host team in Seattle – it’s a work in early stages.. 

Pattern keepers (or core hosts) come in as paid leaders of the event. They carry the learning from one event to another, introduce new pieces to the field, and reinforce the good, true, and beautiful pieces already part of the field. They provide continuity and creativity.  There needs to be at least three who are seasoned: who can together speak all the pieces, offer the teaches, ground the field and can all coach that deeply.

Apprentices: are people who have potential to become pattern keepers: who ask the host team for mentoring or wish to learn the aspects well enough that they could be able to be core hosts… Apprentices may also be people who don’t want to become hosts of AoH, but want to deepen their own practice of these modalities who see these practices at the core of their work: Circle Process, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, World Café, Hosting.

Event caller(s): people who have experienced AoH, who want to bring it to their home, and have significant networks to invite. They may be trying to establish a local community of practice—which will find itself and be reinforced in the event. Variable economy: worked out in right relationship: some get costs covered for room, board, tuition. And some gift may come back to them if the economy is healthy or that is the arrangement.

Support callers: wish to bring this to community, work to make it happen, activate their networks, but see themselves as paying participants because they haven’t’ been through it yet.

Participants: people with foundational skills in facilitation, holding space, collaborative conversations, and process design who are seeking opportunities to step into and learn modalities that grow their hosting practice.