Why This Training Now?

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.

Through various practices of hosting, it has become clear—the challenges of these times call for involvement, collective intelligence, and co-creation of the solutions we need to find. Sustainable solutions that serve the community are born in the community.

The Art of Hosting is built on the assumption and experience that we need to find new solutions for the common good, whether in corporations, government, education, non-profits, social movements, communities, or families. The time is now.

It is common sense to bring more people together in conversation. It is the way we have done it in generations past, gathering round fires and sitting in circles. It is the way we occasionally taste now, building core relationships that invite real collaboration. Human beings that are involved and invited to work together take ownership and responsibility when ideas and solutions must be put into action.