Save-the-date for the next training: 3-5 July 2025 in Old Abbey, Drongen, Belgium

The full invitation will be published here as soon as it is ready.
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What is the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter? 

The Art of Hosting is an approach to life that scales up from the personal to the systemic through personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and co-creation to address complex challenges. It is a highly effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organising capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes (such as Open Space Technology, World Café, Circle) to invite people to step in and engage with the challenges and opportunities facing them.

Groups and organisations using the Art of Hosting as a working practice report better decision-making, more efficient and effective capacity building and greater ability to quickly respond to opportunity, challenge and change. People who experience the Art of Hosting typically say that they walk away feeling more empowered and able to help guide the meetings and conversations they are part of to move towards more effective and desirable outcomes.

The Art of Hosting is more than a suite of methods,  it is also a practice: it is an art to become skillful at helping ourselves and others work well together. We talk about hosting, because the practice gives attention and care to all aspects of people’s work together in a way that fosters conditions for creative and fruitful relationship and includes the whole process – all the preparations before the participants come together, what happens while they are working together, and how the results of their conversation – the ‘harvest’ – support next steps that are coherent for their purpose and context.