The Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter is a process for working with living systems to create the necessary conditions for meaningful conversations. It is also a fellowship of practitioners of this art working in myriad communities and organizations around the world.
Articles & Documents
- The Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter: A Glimpse Into the More Beautiful World ~ Helen Titchen Beeth
- A Day in the Park ~ Kostas Kiriakakis (a great little comic book on the power of questions)
- AoH Evaluation Report 2011 ~ Stephen Duns
- Cafe to Go ~ A toolkit for conducting a World Cafe
- Collective Story Harvest ~ MaryAlice Arthur, Monica Nissen, Ria Baeck
- Collective Story Harvest ~ Amanda Fenton
- Conversational Leadership ~ Thomas Hurley & Juanita Brown
- Chaordic Path
- Chaordic Stepping Stones ~ adapted by Chris Corrigan
- New Chaordic Stepping Stones ~ Chris Corrigan
- The Chaordic Path: Dynamic Interrelationship Between Chaos and Order ~ Kathy Jourdain
- The Circle Way: Basic Guidelines for Calling a Circle
- Designing for Wiser Action ~ Corrymeela
- Designing for Wiser Action
- Four-Fold Path ~ Graphic by MaryAlice Arthur
- Four-Fold Practice ~ Steve Ryman
- Group Works Deck ~ A deck of cards that present a patten language for bringing life to meetings developed collaboratively by the Group Pattern Language Project
- Harvesting Methods & Tools ~ Illinois Art of Hosting Community of Practice
- The Lotus: A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development ~ Christopher Baan, Dana Pearlman, Phil Long
- Mapping Dialogue ~ Pioneers of Change (Maaianne Knuth & Mille Bojer)
- PeerSpirit Basic Guidelines for Calling a Circle
- The Power of Questions (A Japanese Story) ~ Jostein Gaarder
- Pro Action Cafe
- Pro-action Cafe 2.0 ~ Tenneson Woolf
- Ropes Game ~ Toke Moeller
- The Art of Powerful Questions ~ Eric Vogt, Juanita Brown, David Isaacs
- The Circle Way Guidelines
- Two Loops Model ~ Bob Stilger
- The Wicked Question Game ~ Rainer Von Leoprechting
- World Cafe Design Principles
Audio Recordings
- The Circle Way- a Leader in Every Chair ~ Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea
Blogs
Books
- A Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers
- Embracing Emergence by Peggy Holman
- Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide by Harrison Owen
- Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski & Betty Sue Flowers
- The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair By Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea
- The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom & David Cooperrider
- Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future By Margaret Wheatley
Organizations
People
Podcasts
Video Recordings
- Change Through Conversation ~ Tuesday Ryan-Hart
- Berkana’s Two Loop Model ~ Deborah Frieze
- Art of Hosting Story and Lineage ~ Tim Merry & Sera Thompson
- The Story of the Art of Hosting ~ Toke Paludan Moeller, Monica Nissén and Jan Hein Nielsen
- Story of the Finance Lab
- The Circle Way
- What is the Necessity and Gift of Personal Practice? ~ Toke Moeller
Websites
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Art of Hosting
- Art of Hosting Ning
- Art of Hosting Healthcare Community of Practice
- Conference Call Tools links to tools that I use for conference calling
- Group Works
- Open Space
- PeerSpirit ~ Resources on circle practice.
- The Circle Way
- Warrior of the Heart
- World Café
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