Conversations leading to AoH Stewards Gathering June '08

Below you find the first conversation about Stewarding the AoH web, which was harvested and posted here. Below this are some follow-up conversations, posted as comments - best to read them from bottom to top, if you want the in chronological order.

What emerged from a conversation with Toke Møller and Ria Baeck on Sept 24, 2007; with questions added by Donna Alvorado

We see in the AoH work like three different branches that are differentiating. One is the AoH trainings,
next one is the Learning Centers, who use the AoH as OS;
and the third is the high level strategic, systemic work. Underneath all this is probably a deeper branch: holding the pattern.

There is a need for the Stewardship to come together around this and we think these are some of the questions:
1) What is really emerging in the Fellowship and its work in the world? Here is also a link with the World Café Stewards, as they are likely seeing the same dynamics.
2) If all this is emerging, how do we host the next level of the hosting pattern? What is the guardian pattern, the DNA-pattern?
3) What kind of supporting systems do we need to hold the space for this ongoing emergence and connectivity? part of this is the website and ENexus, and the link between them.

We talked about applying our own pattern of holding space for ourselves, for the warriors ‘out there in the world’ where much is at stake. This holding space needs to become more conscious, held in awareness. The language about this ‘holding space as work’ needs to deepen and become more articulate.

When the Stewardship comes together the purpose is for these branches to weave together, and rest together.
We tried to sense what is the real emergence about Borl, the place where a lot of these branches – initiatives were born…

Agreed: Toke will send out an invitation to Donna, Tom and Tim to have a first skype call around all this.

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Donna’s questions:

Here are some quick thoughts I have:

Where is this AoH impulse going in the world?
What is emerging now that there are many trainees, apprentices, practitioners at all levels?
How can we as stewards, and the entire AoH circle, host their/our continuing unfoldment?
How is the AoH practice supporting communities in their evolution?
How is AoH becoming a collective practice?
What are the seeds of a new economy that could be manifested through AoH and its practitioners?

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