Over three days, a group in Kenya participated in workshops using the Art of Hosting methodology to nurture conversations around empowering communities and shaping Kenya's future, including discussions on education, leadership, and community involvement in problem-solving. Participants engaged in practices like World Café, Open Space, and ProAction Café to explore issues and ideas in an interactive way. The document reflects on the journey and connections made over the course of the workshop.
When CAPE was founded, CAPE stood for Collective, Adventure, Practice and Experience, which means CAPE encourages young people to share their adventures, practices and experiences to help each other to grow. By collective sharing, we gain more and grow more.
However, after more than one year’s self-evolution and “soul searching”, CAPE’s meaning was changed to Community, Accelerator, Progressive and Entrepreneurship. We hope CAPE can be a community of changemakers with progressive ideas and entrepreneurship, providing more services to facilitate communication, social connections as well as more meaningful actions among capers.
Cambridge Social Innovation Presentation social innovation meetup [autosaved]Jeanette Sjoberg
+Acumen is the largest social sector online learning platform in the world. The Cambridge Social Innovation Hub was founded to create space for social entrepreneurs to learn skills that help serve themselves and people better. This presentation was given to another meetup group in Cambridge, CamCreatives, to showcase the last course we ran - "Human Centred Design for Social Innovation" - a creative and collaborative problem solving technique that promotes divergent and convergent thinking, contribution from interdisciplinary skilled people (complete strangers) and a chosen design challenge where a product or service is always developed on the back of the course. It's all about mindsets and moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, empowering people. Anyone can be a change maker and anyone can be a social entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone that creates opportunities from resources that are already available. A social entrepreneur is one that additionally aims and delivers social impact.
Rhonda Johnson, Doreen Leavitt
and Robin Morales
Department of Health Sciences,
University of Alaska Anchorage
Delivered by Catherine Carry, Project Manager –NAHO 2009 National Conference
The document provides reflections from several youth on their implementation of a Community Action Plan (CAP) through a youth-led environmental organization called YES (Youth for Environmental Sustainability). It discusses three main projects undertaken by YES: holding a Youth Environmental Summit, teaching upcycling workshops at two schools, and creating a YouTube channel. The summit aimed to raise awareness on environmental issues among Pittsburgh youth and connect volunteers with local organizations. The workshops taught students how to repurpose trash into art and engage them in YES. The YouTube channel shared updates on YES's progress. Reflections note both the challenges faced, such as last-minute changes, and the valuable skills and experience gained from undertaking these projects.
The document discusses the importance of strategic planning for public libraries, providing examples of goals, objectives, and activities libraries can implement in their planning. It emphasizes conducting community needs assessments and selecting specific service responses to address in the library's mission, goals, and objectives. The planning process outlined examines how libraries can measure their progress and ensure services meet community needs.
The majority of participants found the Creating Space 2014 event to be very successful in accomplishing its intended outcomes. Key insights from participant feedback include:
- The most helpful outcomes were opportunities to reflect, learn about network leadership, and meet people.
- Participants valued making connections, the quality of content, and diversity of perspectives.
- Tools and approaches identified as useful included network mapping, design thinking, and open space.
- Participants found the interactive format, mix of participants, and Odin's facilitation contributed to transformational learning.
- Feedback indicated the space/location, pacing, and limiting participation to 60 people were effective design elements.
Reflection Resource from the 2013 National Service Learning ConferenceClement Coulston
Members of the Inclusive Youth Leadership Sub-Committee reflected on their presentation at the 2013 National Service Learning Conference. They discussed what went well, including presenting without reading directly from the PowerPoint, adapting an activity, sharing personal stories, organization, and engaging activities. Challenges included communication issues, structuring the curriculum, defining inclusive leadership, and the placement of teaching and activities. They proposed potential changes like allowing more personal connection time and limiting the use of podiums to enhance impact.
Building a community of practice around higher ed for sustainabiltiy in asia ...Michelle Merrill
A multi-disciplinary community of higher education practitioners and advocates has formed to share information and ideas on how Asian HEIs can better serve the need for innovation and continuous improvement in Education for Sustainability (EfS). This talk was to support our EfS Asia community as it continues to grow. We discuss some of the existing research and philosophy around communities of practice. We provide details on the kinds of opportunities available and challenges faced as we formed such a geographically extensive community of practice, with recommendations for ways to ease or enhance the process for others interested in developing such communities.
When CAPE was founded, CAPE stood for Collective, Adventure, Practice and Experience, which means CAPE encourages young people to share their adventures, practices and experiences to help each other to grow. By collective sharing, we gain more and grow more.
However, after more than one year’s self-evolution and “soul searching”, CAPE’s meaning was changed to Community, Accelerator, Progressive and Entrepreneurship. We hope CAPE can be a community of changemakers with progressive ideas and entrepreneurship, providing more services to facilitate communication, social connections as well as more meaningful actions among capers.
Cambridge Social Innovation Presentation social innovation meetup [autosaved]Jeanette Sjoberg
+Acumen is the largest social sector online learning platform in the world. The Cambridge Social Innovation Hub was founded to create space for social entrepreneurs to learn skills that help serve themselves and people better. This presentation was given to another meetup group in Cambridge, CamCreatives, to showcase the last course we ran - "Human Centred Design for Social Innovation" - a creative and collaborative problem solving technique that promotes divergent and convergent thinking, contribution from interdisciplinary skilled people (complete strangers) and a chosen design challenge where a product or service is always developed on the back of the course. It's all about mindsets and moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, empowering people. Anyone can be a change maker and anyone can be a social entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone that creates opportunities from resources that are already available. A social entrepreneur is one that additionally aims and delivers social impact.
Rhonda Johnson, Doreen Leavitt
and Robin Morales
Department of Health Sciences,
University of Alaska Anchorage
Delivered by Catherine Carry, Project Manager –NAHO 2009 National Conference
The document provides reflections from several youth on their implementation of a Community Action Plan (CAP) through a youth-led environmental organization called YES (Youth for Environmental Sustainability). It discusses three main projects undertaken by YES: holding a Youth Environmental Summit, teaching upcycling workshops at two schools, and creating a YouTube channel. The summit aimed to raise awareness on environmental issues among Pittsburgh youth and connect volunteers with local organizations. The workshops taught students how to repurpose trash into art and engage them in YES. The YouTube channel shared updates on YES's progress. Reflections note both the challenges faced, such as last-minute changes, and the valuable skills and experience gained from undertaking these projects.
The document discusses the importance of strategic planning for public libraries, providing examples of goals, objectives, and activities libraries can implement in their planning. It emphasizes conducting community needs assessments and selecting specific service responses to address in the library's mission, goals, and objectives. The planning process outlined examines how libraries can measure their progress and ensure services meet community needs.
The majority of participants found the Creating Space 2014 event to be very successful in accomplishing its intended outcomes. Key insights from participant feedback include:
- The most helpful outcomes were opportunities to reflect, learn about network leadership, and meet people.
- Participants valued making connections, the quality of content, and diversity of perspectives.
- Tools and approaches identified as useful included network mapping, design thinking, and open space.
- Participants found the interactive format, mix of participants, and Odin's facilitation contributed to transformational learning.
- Feedback indicated the space/location, pacing, and limiting participation to 60 people were effective design elements.
Reflection Resource from the 2013 National Service Learning ConferenceClement Coulston
Members of the Inclusive Youth Leadership Sub-Committee reflected on their presentation at the 2013 National Service Learning Conference. They discussed what went well, including presenting without reading directly from the PowerPoint, adapting an activity, sharing personal stories, organization, and engaging activities. Challenges included communication issues, structuring the curriculum, defining inclusive leadership, and the placement of teaching and activities. They proposed potential changes like allowing more personal connection time and limiting the use of podiums to enhance impact.
Building a community of practice around higher ed for sustainabiltiy in asia ...Michelle Merrill
A multi-disciplinary community of higher education practitioners and advocates has formed to share information and ideas on how Asian HEIs can better serve the need for innovation and continuous improvement in Education for Sustainability (EfS). This talk was to support our EfS Asia community as it continues to grow. We discuss some of the existing research and philosophy around communities of practice. We provide details on the kinds of opportunities available and challenges faced as we formed such a geographically extensive community of practice, with recommendations for ways to ease or enhance the process for others interested in developing such communities.
1. A community university partnership developed a program through consultation with local community groups to engage with and help the most disadvantaged communities in the city.
2. They worked closely with the Congolese community through various projects like a sewing program, fashion show, and opening a community center.
3. Over time the program expanded to reach more communities, provide workshops, and share their community engagement model in other countries.
This handbook summarizes the results of a two-year EU-funded project called "Lady Cafe" that aimed to motivate and support women aged 45+ in various European countries. The project involved organizations from Spain, Bulgaria, Ireland, Slovenia, Latvia, Turkey, and Romania conducting educational programs and activities. This handbook shares the experiences and good practices identified in tackling gender issues across different cultural contexts. It is intended to disseminate the projects results and lessons learned to organizations working in adult education and gender studies.
Talk given at UXNZ 2016, exploring key "edges" of practice we are exploring in co-design in Aotearoa. With thanks to all the community members and practitioner who shared their experiences in this talk.
Talk Abstract:
Across Aotearoa (New Zealand), co-design is rapidly being adopted in public and community contexts to tackle complex national issues and policies such as youth employment; smoking cessation; community health and wellbeing; homelessness
and family violence.
Many of these are large-scale, complex social change innovations and experiments that bring together new groups of people, which means working together in new ways. The opportunity to scale co-design to help address systemic national social challenges is both awesome and terrifying. This talk highlights some of the key trends, changes, opportunities and challenges emerging in co-design for social innovation and social outcomes in Aotearoa.
Zureenah Sulaiman has extensive experience facilitating leadership programs and events over the past 10 years. She has facilitated over 200 events, focusing on topics like values-based leadership, communication, dialogue, and future scenario planning. Some of the key programs she facilitated include:
- A 6-month leadership certificate program called the "Western Cape Youth Dialogue Programme" for 60 learners in 2012.
- The 2010 Emerging Leadership Programme where she facilitated modules on values-based leadership and dialogue and communication.
- Workshops on human rights, adult education, and team building.
- Starting a company in 2015 called "Change by Design" focused on empowering people and organizations.
NURTURING A CLIMATE FOR GROUP INNOVATION: A reflection with the SAODN – 29 Ju...Elmi Bester
Elmi Bester share her story of creating an innovative, collaborative approach to convening the KM community, employing the four principles at the Summit.
Related article:Improvisational theatre as team development intervention for climate for work group innovation
Burgert Kirsten, Ronel du Preez
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 36, No 1 (2010), 9 pages. doi: 10.4102/sajip.v36i1.862 http://www.sajip.co.za/index.php/sajip/article/view/862
http://www.saodn.net/portfolio/portfolio-test/
Do you want to exercise a participatory and co-creative style of leadership? This is a training to become a leader- facilitator using a tool kit called "Art of Hosting". We are adding other components, embodiment and mindfulness that point to the way of being necessary to design and host powerful processes and conversations that bridge divides in a time of polarization.
Conducting community conference to pinpoint problems & solutionsReynaldo Halili
This document describes a grant competition to fund innovative local governance projects in the Philippines using multistakeholder partnerships. It provides details on the grant themes, categories of projects, and an example concept proposal from Team Barangay. The concept proposal aims to use the Future Search methodology to bring together stakeholders in Barangay to jointly diagnose issues, create a shared vision and action plan to improve governance, participation, and responsiveness to community needs. The document then provides an in-depth explanation of the Future Search methodology, which brings the whole system together to explore the past and present, identify trends and common ground, develop ideal future scenarios, and jointly agree on and commit to an action plan.
This document provides an overview of the educational, entrepreneurial, leadership, and cultural activities offered by the International Youth Executive Forum in Ghana. The forum aims to raise a generation of believers who will stand up for their faith. Its activities include entrepreneurship workshops, youth leadership programs, cultural competitions, and prayer rallies. The goal is to provide resources to support youth development, facilitate idea sharing, and empower young people to create positive change.
Positive Change Maker Interview: Anna KotsonourisMichael Kurz
Anna Kotsonouris facilitates positive change for community development projects in West Africa through her work with an international development organization over the past 14 years. She feels her biggest contribution has been influencing donors and rural communities to engage in their own development. Her work has taught her empathy, patience, and to acknowledge what she doesn't know in order to truly understand the issues communities face. She shares her experience of initially misidentifying a community's problems to emphasize the importance of listening to understand local realities. She is moved by increased appreciation for healthcare workers during the pandemic and hopes it continues after the crisis ends.
This document outlines a program focused on adopting a Maori worldview and empowering whanau. The vision is to use Maori values, beliefs, and aspirations in education. The mission is to equip whanau with self-reflection skills using Maori knowledge to understand the visible and invisible universe. The program principles are based on Maori knowledge and aim to strengthen teaching and learning to raise the status of Maori people. It seeks to build tribal knowledge into programs and focus on unlocking whanau's diverse potential.
This brochure outlines the educational, entrepreneurial, leadership, cultural, and spiritual activities offered by the International Youth Executive Forum in Ghana. The programs are aimed at raising up believers who will stand for the gospel and support youth development. Key programs include the Avant-Garde Trails Expo to support entrepreneurship, the Youth for Change initiative to encourage civic participation, My Heritage for Unity to promote cultural understanding, the Emerging Future Leaders Conference to develop leadership skills, and various spiritual activities like the Destiny Prayer Rally. The overall goal is to transform lives and impact generations through these opportunities.
Dialogue program, 14th to 16th May 2014Clt-Services
Dialoguer est un acte quotidien mais nous sommes rarement satisfaits des dialogues que nous avons menés avec un groupe ou auxquels nous avons participé. Maitrisons –nous vraiment l’art de dialoguer ? Comment faire du dialogue un puissant outil pour la facilitation de groupe ?
This discussion guide takes a look at when, where, and what young people learn. How do we create the kind of community where all young people will have a chance to learn – in and beyond the school day?
This document discusses the art of facilitation and how it can be used to evoke and create wisdom within groups. It describes facilitation as drawing out a group's existing wisdom to solve problems or create solutions. The key skill of a facilitator is guiding reflective thinking by asking questions that move a group from recalling experiences to interpreting meaning and making decisions. When done respectfully, this process allows groups to integrate knowledge and come to a consensus beyond what any individual could achieve alone. Facilitation seeks to represent all stakeholders to consider every perspective in developing wise solutions.
Hands on guide for youth and adults, who are dedicated to finding ways for all kinds of people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues.
This is the invitation for the upcoming Art of Hosting training happening in Toronto in May.
(also my first inDesign project! Thanks to Pamela Rounis for design coaching!)
The document discusses Pioneers of Change learning journeys, which are immersive experiences that enable participants to grow and develop their practice. It provides an overview of the defining characteristics of these journeys, including learning through immersion, open inquiry, multiple learning approaches, group learning, co-creation, and building a learning community. The document also gives a brief history of past Pioneers of Change learning journeys on various themes from 2001 to present. Finally, it outlines 12 steps to take when planning a new learning journey, such as deciding the theme, developing a concept paper, establishing dates and locations, communicating with partners, and developing an agenda.
1. A community university partnership developed a program through consultation with local community groups to engage with and help the most disadvantaged communities in the city.
2. They worked closely with the Congolese community through various projects like a sewing program, fashion show, and opening a community center.
3. Over time the program expanded to reach more communities, provide workshops, and share their community engagement model in other countries.
This handbook summarizes the results of a two-year EU-funded project called "Lady Cafe" that aimed to motivate and support women aged 45+ in various European countries. The project involved organizations from Spain, Bulgaria, Ireland, Slovenia, Latvia, Turkey, and Romania conducting educational programs and activities. This handbook shares the experiences and good practices identified in tackling gender issues across different cultural contexts. It is intended to disseminate the projects results and lessons learned to organizations working in adult education and gender studies.
Talk given at UXNZ 2016, exploring key "edges" of practice we are exploring in co-design in Aotearoa. With thanks to all the community members and practitioner who shared their experiences in this talk.
Talk Abstract:
Across Aotearoa (New Zealand), co-design is rapidly being adopted in public and community contexts to tackle complex national issues and policies such as youth employment; smoking cessation; community health and wellbeing; homelessness
and family violence.
Many of these are large-scale, complex social change innovations and experiments that bring together new groups of people, which means working together in new ways. The opportunity to scale co-design to help address systemic national social challenges is both awesome and terrifying. This talk highlights some of the key trends, changes, opportunities and challenges emerging in co-design for social innovation and social outcomes in Aotearoa.
Zureenah Sulaiman has extensive experience facilitating leadership programs and events over the past 10 years. She has facilitated over 200 events, focusing on topics like values-based leadership, communication, dialogue, and future scenario planning. Some of the key programs she facilitated include:
- A 6-month leadership certificate program called the "Western Cape Youth Dialogue Programme" for 60 learners in 2012.
- The 2010 Emerging Leadership Programme where she facilitated modules on values-based leadership and dialogue and communication.
- Workshops on human rights, adult education, and team building.
- Starting a company in 2015 called "Change by Design" focused on empowering people and organizations.
NURTURING A CLIMATE FOR GROUP INNOVATION: A reflection with the SAODN – 29 Ju...Elmi Bester
Elmi Bester share her story of creating an innovative, collaborative approach to convening the KM community, employing the four principles at the Summit.
Related article:Improvisational theatre as team development intervention for climate for work group innovation
Burgert Kirsten, Ronel du Preez
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 36, No 1 (2010), 9 pages. doi: 10.4102/sajip.v36i1.862 http://www.sajip.co.za/index.php/sajip/article/view/862
http://www.saodn.net/portfolio/portfolio-test/
Do you want to exercise a participatory and co-creative style of leadership? This is a training to become a leader- facilitator using a tool kit called "Art of Hosting". We are adding other components, embodiment and mindfulness that point to the way of being necessary to design and host powerful processes and conversations that bridge divides in a time of polarization.
Conducting community conference to pinpoint problems & solutionsReynaldo Halili
This document describes a grant competition to fund innovative local governance projects in the Philippines using multistakeholder partnerships. It provides details on the grant themes, categories of projects, and an example concept proposal from Team Barangay. The concept proposal aims to use the Future Search methodology to bring together stakeholders in Barangay to jointly diagnose issues, create a shared vision and action plan to improve governance, participation, and responsiveness to community needs. The document then provides an in-depth explanation of the Future Search methodology, which brings the whole system together to explore the past and present, identify trends and common ground, develop ideal future scenarios, and jointly agree on and commit to an action plan.
This document provides an overview of the educational, entrepreneurial, leadership, and cultural activities offered by the International Youth Executive Forum in Ghana. The forum aims to raise a generation of believers who will stand up for their faith. Its activities include entrepreneurship workshops, youth leadership programs, cultural competitions, and prayer rallies. The goal is to provide resources to support youth development, facilitate idea sharing, and empower young people to create positive change.
Positive Change Maker Interview: Anna KotsonourisMichael Kurz
Anna Kotsonouris facilitates positive change for community development projects in West Africa through her work with an international development organization over the past 14 years. She feels her biggest contribution has been influencing donors and rural communities to engage in their own development. Her work has taught her empathy, patience, and to acknowledge what she doesn't know in order to truly understand the issues communities face. She shares her experience of initially misidentifying a community's problems to emphasize the importance of listening to understand local realities. She is moved by increased appreciation for healthcare workers during the pandemic and hopes it continues after the crisis ends.
This document outlines a program focused on adopting a Maori worldview and empowering whanau. The vision is to use Maori values, beliefs, and aspirations in education. The mission is to equip whanau with self-reflection skills using Maori knowledge to understand the visible and invisible universe. The program principles are based on Maori knowledge and aim to strengthen teaching and learning to raise the status of Maori people. It seeks to build tribal knowledge into programs and focus on unlocking whanau's diverse potential.
This brochure outlines the educational, entrepreneurial, leadership, cultural, and spiritual activities offered by the International Youth Executive Forum in Ghana. The programs are aimed at raising up believers who will stand for the gospel and support youth development. Key programs include the Avant-Garde Trails Expo to support entrepreneurship, the Youth for Change initiative to encourage civic participation, My Heritage for Unity to promote cultural understanding, the Emerging Future Leaders Conference to develop leadership skills, and various spiritual activities like the Destiny Prayer Rally. The overall goal is to transform lives and impact generations through these opportunities.
Dialogue program, 14th to 16th May 2014Clt-Services
Dialoguer est un acte quotidien mais nous sommes rarement satisfaits des dialogues que nous avons menés avec un groupe ou auxquels nous avons participé. Maitrisons –nous vraiment l’art de dialoguer ? Comment faire du dialogue un puissant outil pour la facilitation de groupe ?
This discussion guide takes a look at when, where, and what young people learn. How do we create the kind of community where all young people will have a chance to learn – in and beyond the school day?
This document discusses the art of facilitation and how it can be used to evoke and create wisdom within groups. It describes facilitation as drawing out a group's existing wisdom to solve problems or create solutions. The key skill of a facilitator is guiding reflective thinking by asking questions that move a group from recalling experiences to interpreting meaning and making decisions. When done respectfully, this process allows groups to integrate knowledge and come to a consensus beyond what any individual could achieve alone. Facilitation seeks to represent all stakeholders to consider every perspective in developing wise solutions.
Hands on guide for youth and adults, who are dedicated to finding ways for all kinds of people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues.
This is the invitation for the upcoming Art of Hosting training happening in Toronto in May.
(also my first inDesign project! Thanks to Pamela Rounis for design coaching!)
The document discusses Pioneers of Change learning journeys, which are immersive experiences that enable participants to grow and develop their practice. It provides an overview of the defining characteristics of these journeys, including learning through immersion, open inquiry, multiple learning approaches, group learning, co-creation, and building a learning community. The document also gives a brief history of past Pioneers of Change learning journeys on various themes from 2001 to present. Finally, it outlines 12 steps to take when planning a new learning journey, such as deciding the theme, developing a concept paper, establishing dates and locations, communicating with partners, and developing an agenda.
1. “Together, how will we begin to host and
harvest conversations
that matter in service of Kenya’s future?”
Day three - BLOSSOM
Check in - welcoming new people
Teaching - Divergent Convergent
and designing spaces for hosting
Pro Action Cafe on two projects:
Mango girls secondary schools and
Food Systems in Kenya
Check out and witnessing circle
3 days of nurturing seeds for Kenya
Art of Hosting Kenya 2013
Three days of nurturing seeds for Kenya, learning the Art of Hosting
and Harvesting conversations, and looking courageously into the future.
Thank you for the generous support and sponsorship from Caritas Austria.
2. Day one - ROOTS
Why are we here and what do you remember?
Welcome - frame - check in
Teaching the different levels of Art of Hosting - signing up for practice
Remembering our stories - when did you feel proud to be Kenyan?
What supports strong roots in Kenya and what do we dream of?
Being in conversation about Kenya and our work
Feeding forward from yesterday - Four Fold Practice
What practices sustain and nourish us, what are our learning edges?
World Cafe: What time time is it in Kenya? What role can we play in
creating the future we want to see?
Open Space - Check out
Day two - TRUNK
Day three - BLOSSOM
Check in and feedforward - welcoming new people
Teaching: Divergence Convergence and Design
ProAction Cafe on two projects: Mango Girls Secondary School and Food
Systems in urban growing centers in Kenya
Check out and witnessing circle
Everybody is a teacher,everybody is a student.Our roots are the same
How to involve community in
solving their problems?
Check in
How to resolve conflict of land and water so we can move forward?
How to involve community
in solving their problems?
Participatory
leadership, what is
working, can we bring
back what we’ve lost?
Be better change makers.
What’s my path in this world?
Building bridges. I know
how to do this
Change the way that
education works. Involve
children in decision
making
How can we localise Art
of Hosting and make it
simple?
This is a personal
work journey
We are loosing our essence.
Can we remember with the
current pace of Africa?
Who are you and what inspired you to say yes to
this invitation?
3. Consolata’s story was about the
presidential award she received in
2008 for the community work she
did with the NGO called Mango
Tree. The award was for helping
people to improve their lives and
empowering them to take care of
orphans in the community. The
Prime Minister wrote to Mango Tree
that this was a model that should be
replicated not only in Kenya but also
in other African countries.
THE GANG
WHAT DO YOU DREAM OF NOW FOR KENYA?
CHARISMATIC LEADERS WHO LOOK AT NEEDS AND RESPOND
WITH LOVE AND CARE. A MORE UNITED KENYA NOT TRIBAL
DIVIDED. A LESS POLITICAL SOCIETY WHERE WE COME UP
WITH OUR OWN SOLUTIONS - A SENSE OF PRIDE
Story telling
Consolata’s role model was her mother, a very inspiring woman full of faith
and a big heart for people. She believed in discovering the good in
everybody. Inspired by God she first became a nun and her motto was to
listen and talk to people, mobilize resources and to educate. Then she felt
she could do more outside the structure of the convent and studied Social
Ministry. After graduation, Mango Tree International hired her. She wants to
bring back African models of childcare, putting children in orphanages is not
good. The children are loosing their roots. It is much better that they are
kept in their community. “How did Africa deal with the poor and orphans in
the past?”. Finding African solutions to African problems.
4. How to involve community in
solving their problems?
This is a personal
work journey
Hosting ourselves - The Four Fold Practice
WHAT IS THE EDGE OF
LEARNING I AM STANDING ON
RIGHT NOW?
DOING MORE OF WHAT I KNOW
NOT LEARNING MORE
PRACTICING PATIENCE AND STOP
POINTING FINGERS AT MYSELF
GETTING OUT OF MY HEAD
LETTING IT BE, JUST BE ME
GET MY PRIORITIES RIGHT AND
ORGANISE MY TIME BETTER
THE WORLD VIEW IS SO DIFFICULT
TO LET GO OF
WHERE DO I FIT IN KENYA OR
EGYPT?
NOT BEING A PERFECTIONIST
FINDING MY NEXT LEVEL OF
LEADERSHIP
HOW DO I CHOOSE?
WHAT NURTURES US WHEN
THE GOING GETS TOUGH?
BEAUTY
CHI GONG
MOVEMENTS
MEDITATION
MY LIFE FORCE, MY ROCK, MY
ANCHOR
JOY
LIGHT
GRATITUDE
PRAYER
GOING SLOW
TOUCHING THE SOIL
LEARNING TO BE OK
SEEING GOOD IN PEOPLE
5. World Café
We need to start
from where we are
Linkage and bridges
Being fire-keepers
Ecosystem as a
container to host us
No borders
Catalysts for change
Build love, peace and
harmony
We are all connected
Women are magic
GOLD NUGGETS
Open Space
Power napping
Working in spaces/places where
hope is lost
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Open Space Technology (OST)
Open Space Technology is a process designed to facilitate parallel
working/dialogue sessions around a central theme of strategic
importance. Participants create and manage their own agenda
by convening and engaging around issues of concern to them.
This dynamic process invites people to boldly speak to their
passion and take the lead in stewarding its development toward the
collective vision. The outcome of each conversation is reported
back to the whole group to bring everyone up to speed with
possibilities and opportunities for collaboration. It can be used
for strategic direction-setting, envisioning the future, morale
building, stakeholder consultation, and collaboration. OST may be
less suited as an opening methodology, prior to the group getting
more comfortable with working together and in participatory ways.
‘Discovered’ by Harrison Owen.
The Weave – Dialogue-Based Methodologies
Conversations between people of conflicting interests
How can we make the AOH practice grow in Kenya?
How to hold space for cultural awesomeness?
Creating and maintaining healthy conversation between
people of conflicting interests?
How do you hold a space when one individual’s mission is
to destroy/destabilise?
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World Café (WC)
The World Cafe is a collective conversation with an overarching
theme. Participants move between conversation clusters (café-
style tables) in successive rounds (usually three), sharing ideas
and insights. A “host” remains at each table to share key insights
and questions with new participants in each round, and harvest
the final results. Often used early in a process, World Café creates
the space for individual relationships of trust and transparency
to form. Within a very short time, every person in the room will
have had deep conversation with as many as twelve others. There
are many times throughout an engagement where the benefits
of dialogue in a ‘Café’ setting can bring clarity to the collective
intelligence of the group. It can be useful at the earlier stages of the
engagement, for example, to explore sustainability in the context of
the participants’ personal and professional lives, to surface current
strengths and challenges, or for a high level sustainability principles
analysis. This methodology is also suggested as appropriate for
reconvening to assess progress on the strategic action plan. Co-
founded by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs.
The Weave – Dialogue-Based Methodologies
SESSIONS:
What’s happening in Kenya and what role can we play to contribute to the future
we want to see?
What do I want to explore further in more depth ?
6. How to involve community in
solving their problems?
ProAction Café
HARVEST
TIME TO WALK AROUND AND TRAVEL BACK
AND SEE WHERE WE CAME FROM. TIME TO
SHARE HOW WE ARE FEELING NOW AFTER
THREE DAYS OF BEING WITH EACH OTHER
IN LEARNING, EXPLORING AND SHARING
OUR KNOWLEDGE, PASSION AND SKILLS.
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Open Space Technology (OST)
Open Space Technology is a process designed to facilitate parallel
working/dialogue sessions around a central theme of strategic
importance. Participants create and manage their own agenda
by convening and engaging around issues of concern to them.
This dynamic process invites people to boldly speak to their
passion and take the lead in stewarding its development toward the
collective vision. The outcome of each conversation is reported
back to the whole group to bring everyone up to speed with
possibilities and opportunities for collaboration. It can be used
for strategic direction-setting, envisioning the future, morale
building, stakeholder consultation, and collaboration. OST may be
less suited as an opening methodology, prior to the group getting
more comfortable with working together and in participatory ways.
‘Discovered’ by Harrison Owen.
Pro Action Café (PC)
This process was developed to deepen the level of inquiry into spe
projects, leading to wiser and more collectively informed actions.
a relatively new methodology that combines the conversation clus
and rounds of World Café with the participant created agenda of O
Space Technology. Participants bring their specific projects to t
rounds of deep and focused conversation to discuss the ‘quest’ beh
the question, what might be missing and the next steps toward act
It is well-suited for the strategic prioritization and action plann
stages, bringing the added benefit of cross-pollinating projects
insights and ideas from different departments within an organizat
or different viewpoints within a community. Its strength lies in
deep level of inquiry into a specific project, the opportunity to ac
a diverse range of perspectives to strengthen the outcome, and
resulting awareness of the scope of projects within the group. Th
methodology was originally developed by Art of Hosting practitio
Rainer von Leoprechting and Ria Beck for use in policy making w
the European Commission.
The Weave – Dialogue-Based Methodologies
7. “ANYONE WHO CREATES MAGIC
IS MY FRIEND.”
“BEHIND THOSE CHILDISH EYES
THERE IS A SHARP MIND.”
“YOU HAVE TAKEN ENCHANTED
PATH AND YOUR PASSION
CALLS FOR THAT.”
Witnessing circle,
offering and receiving gifts
and checking out:
“IT HAS BEEN THE TRUTH I
HAVE BEEN SPEAKING.”
“AFRICAN MAMA WITH A
BIG HEART.”
“I don’t know where I’m going but the
journey is wonderful”. “I don’t know
where you’re going either but the people
who will meet you we’ll be blessed to
have you.”
“You are an inquisitive catalyst for change.
You have a permanent smile and beautiful
eyes. You are deeply connected to your
roots, you are humble and caring. Kenya
needs a lot of you.”
“NOW YOU HAVE SOME MATES
TO ORGANISE THE NEXT ART
OF HOSTING. YOU ARE SO
RESILIENT AND HAVE A BIG
HEART.”
“I am in love with you. You are a beam of
light and an inspiration to your students.”
“YOU ARE A FIRE CRACKER,
ENERGETIC FREE SPIRIT. YOU
B R I N G S U R P R I S E S A N D
UNPREDICTABILITY, HEALTHY
CRAZINESS. A LIVING WILD
WOMAN.”
“You are a young
energy, don’t be
afraid of yourself.”
“You are like Mercury, so resilient.
Great things were started by few
people.”
“You are an amazing woman with a brightfuture for Kenya. You are always lookingfor the goodness within people.”
“You are a down to earth
person, a fire carrier. You
have a good smile.”
Work like this, feels for
me so light and right
It is a miracle!
It was a joy to be here
I could be myself
I will never be the same
Thank you
It was very natural
I am very glad to
experience
Art of Hosting life
Unique is that I will
remember the
importance of reflection
You get a deeper level
The real needs that needs
To be done
You made me feel
Myself again. We were
Authentic and true
It’s been a journey. I
Will use it to enrich my
Work
I really don’t know
Where I am going, but it
is filled with richness
There was a place for
Silence, to reflect, to be.
It made me fall in love
with Kenya again.
8. CONTACT DETAILS:
Contact details for AoH Kenya:
Judith Stemerdink-Herret
Tel +254 788 516 866
aohinkenya@gmail.com
Contact details hosting team:
Linda Joy Mitchell
www.lindajoymitchell.org.uk
linda@lindajoymitchell.org.uk
Silas Lusias
slusias@gmail.com
Art of Hosting international webpage:
www.artofhosting.org
www.artofhosting.ning.com