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An Art of Hosting Practice Gathering
on Race, Power & Privilege
What is needed to consciously host and work through tensions
of race, power and privilege, while honoring unity in diversity?
Columbus, Ohio June 1 - 5, 2018
It was an invitation to question our assumptions and to host our discomforts and shakiness while cultivating belonging. We were invited to bring our questions and curiosity, and to be in a safe enough space, where we could meet in our differences and experience the joy and challenge of being a community. Some of us have the privilege to avoid addressing the tensions while others of us experience it daily.
We invited participants to weave a resilient container with us, that could hold the spectrum of our conversations. We were invited to:
• Bring your hardest, real questions in your work and life
• Take a breath in lightness and playfulness and the joy of being.
• Ask for what you need, and offer what you can.
• Co-create the best possible ‘new’ together.
• Experience this moment of involution and evolution for our field of practice
We met in Columbus, Ohio...
the Seneca name for "Ohio" is a name for the Ohio River, Ohiyo, which means "it is beautiful."
The territory of the Chippewa, Delaware, Erie, Honniasont, Illinois, Iroquois/Seneca, Mingos, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Shawnee, and Wyandot/Hurons. African American people thrive here, in the midst of anti-black racism. An area rich with the history of Native American Moundbuilders as well as a city whose very name honors a figure of genocide, and yet is only one layer in an era of complex relationships.
We invited participants to weave a resilient container with us, that could hold the spectrum of our conversations. We were invited to:
• Bring your hardest, real questions in your work and life
• Take a breath in lightness and playfulness and the joy of being.
• Ask for what you need, and offer what you can.
• Co-create the best possible ‘new’ together.
• Experience this moment of involution and evolution for our field of practice
We met in Columbus, Ohio...
the Seneca name for "Ohio" is a name for the Ohio River, Ohiyo, which means "it is beautiful."
The territory of the Chippewa, Delaware, Erie, Honniasont, Illinois, Iroquois/Seneca, Mingos, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Shawnee, and Wyandot/Hurons. African American people thrive here, in the midst of anti-black racism. An area rich with the history of Native American Moundbuilders as well as a city whose very name honors a figure of genocide, and yet is only one layer in an era of complex relationships.
We need all practitioners who are called to step in collectively at this time!
The shape of our gathering |
Our meeting
We arrived around mid-day on June 1st and the Opening Circle began around 2:30 pm (Eastern Time). The gathering ended after lunch on June 5th.
FLOW of the DAYS
Our focus was on this invitation, truly finding what was underneath this call.
The design of the days followed our Fourfold Practice, with an emphasis on each fold across the days.
Each day had have elements of deep listening, stories, open space for hosting the conversations we felt called to invite, as well as ritual to open and close our time together.
We were invited to live our AoH principle: to ask for what you need, and offer what you can, as we all come with different needs and offerings to this conversation.
Please note, this gathering was not an Art of Hosting Training.
We arrived around mid-day on June 1st and the Opening Circle began around 2:30 pm (Eastern Time). The gathering ended after lunch on June 5th.
FLOW of the DAYS
Our focus was on this invitation, truly finding what was underneath this call.
The design of the days followed our Fourfold Practice, with an emphasis on each fold across the days.
Each day had have elements of deep listening, stories, open space for hosting the conversations we felt called to invite, as well as ritual to open and close our time together.
We were invited to live our AoH principle: to ask for what you need, and offer what you can, as we all come with different needs and offerings to this conversation.
Please note, this gathering was not an Art of Hosting Training.
