A course outline on participatory leadership

This winter I’ll be teaching a course on Leadership for the first time. So, as any respectable Art of Hosting practitioner would do, I decided that I needed to break from the way this course has been taught in the past, and made the choice to go full on with participatory leadership. It’s not perfect, …

Nora Bateson et le laboratoire des « données chaudes » (Warm data)

Il y a quelques jours, Nora Bateson est venue à Montréal pour un atelier et une conférence. Nora Bateson est l’initiatrice de la pratique des « warm data labs », que je comprends comme une pratique qui nous amène à explorer la complexité de manière créative, c’est à dire vivante. Ces notes sont une forme de témoignage …

What do we do when we don’t know what to do?

Part 1: The four-fold practice of the Art of Hosting What do we do when we don’t know what to do? My friend Joshua Moses has this amazing question he always carries around with him and asks interesting people. Lately it has come up in several different areas of my life, kind of unexpectedly, and …

Walking the chaordic path

Some reflections on the Art of Hosting and Reimagining Education « to innovate or understand  to work with human complexity with problems that are not clouds and not clocks we need people and inquiry creative diversity to act and respond with creative possibilities we need learning insights connections new ways of seeing and acting emerge.«  On …