The Art of Hosting
Meaningful Conversations
and Participatory Leadership
Bowen Island & Vancouver

 The Art of Hosting, Vancouver BC
November 6, 7, 8, 2023
Registration is Open

 The Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations and Participatory Leadership is an intensive 3-day learning experience where you will practice a set of simple yet powerful approaches for designing and hosting (facilitating) powerful conversations, engagement processes and meetings. It is an effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups. We believe that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life. These practices invite people to step in and respond to the challenges facing them in creative, authentic, innovative and effective ways.

*This is a 3 day, in person, non-residential workshop, including a dinner & music evening to connect with other participants. Nearby accommodations list will be provided for those joining from away.
WHY THE ART OF HOSTING?​

The times we are living in call for more effective meetings, better engagement processes, participatory leadership and the ability to craft strategy from collective wisdom and intelligence.  Join us to:

Build Stronger Teams and Partnerships. Broaden the skill set within your group, work more effectively and enjoyably together, engage teams, organizations, and community stakeholders in meaningful conversations that promote resilience, belonging, innovation, and collective impact.

Enhance our skills and abilities to work with complexity, uncertainty & change. Develop leadership confidence for facing challenges that don’t have solutions, learn practices to engage skillfully with fear, conflict and stuck patterns, use wise process planning architectures for small and large scale initiatives, and host strategic conversation

Apply what you are learning directly to the change projects that are important to you, your community or organization.


Learn more about our program...
WHO'S ON THE TEAM

Your hosting team each have decades of experience teaching and utilizing participatory leadership practices in almost every conceivable setting, from the corporate sector to government, non-profits and social justice movements, faith communities, indigenous communities and social institutions.  They are experienced facilitators, coaches and leaders in their own right, and are all stewards of the global Art of Hosting community.  
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Learn more about your 2023 Hosting Team: Chris Corrigan, Caitlin Frost, Kelly Foxcroft Poirier,  Kris Archie