In September 2016, the 1st Art of Hosting Training in Portugal invited a group of 60 people to explore and practice the Art of Participatory Leadership.
These questions provided the real context to explore and understand how we can create new solutions:
What type of leadership and collaboration do we need on a daily basis in our teams and organisational structures, to make them more human and prosperous? How can we build the trust and competences to be the leaders we are waiting for? How do we put in practice the kind of leadership that we believe is essential in each of our specific contexts? |
About the training
In the three days of intensive practical training, participants had the chance to:
- Practice how to facilitate meaningful conversations has a leadership ability. - Learn to lead change processes in the presence of complexity and uncertainty. - Use participative processes to reach inclusive and sustainable solutions. - Develop competences and knowledge in interactive processes that support participatory leadership, such as:
Besides that, participants had the chance to work with others on their ideas and projects and to connect with a global network of change agents, open to share and co-create new possibilities. |
This training event targeted all those who felt called by the driving questions and specifically to people who managed or worked with teams, who integrated big organisational systems, leaded change projects or developed community work. All those who wanted to develop competences to host diversity and increase the creation of innovative solutions, through collaboration and collective intelligence of groups:
- Managers and leadership positions
- Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers and Team Leaders
- CEOs and Senior Leaders
- Entrepreneurs
- Consultants
- Human Resources Professionals, Knowledge Management and Innovation
- Change Agents, Journalists and Artists
- NGO's and Community Work professionals
OUR HOSTING TEAM
Linda Joy Mitchell
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Mary-Alice Arthur
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Augusto Cuginotti
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Maíra Rahme
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Training Flow
Day 1 - Getting to Know each other, Principles, Insights and Questions
°°° Why are we here °°° • After Check- in we did start the day with WORLD CAFÉ • We moved to the understanding of CHAORDIC PATHS and LIVING SYSTEMS • signing-up on(to) the MATRIX • After lunch we dived in to -APPRECIATIVE ENQUIRY • The importance of a POWERFUL QUESTION °°° Ask Questions that matter °°° |
Day 2 - Connection
• After " shark- in " we moved to the Teach of 4 FOLD PRACTICE • Time for deep in the Insights of one another { CIRCLE } °°° Listen with attention / Speak with intention °°° • FISH BOWL - We Shared • META Perspective - divergence and convergence. • We moved forward to OPEN SPACE - Methodology and jump in to its Practice • By the end of the day time for a story - COLLECTIVE STORY HARVEST °° We all see the world through the lens of our story °° |
Day 3 - Action
• We start the day with the ROPES GAME • A dive into the 8 BREATHS • Time for DESIGN FOR WISER ACTION - Part I - we were introduced to different Projects • DESIGN FOR WISER ACTION - Part II - We Shared Perspectives and HARVEST • META HARVEST • " Magic CIRCLE" - there was the time and space for each and everyone to share their insights. ----- Flow harvested by Andreia Rodrigues ----- |
Learning Contents
POWERFUL QUESTIONS |
8 BREATHS |
DESIGN FOR
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VIDEO HARVEST
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METHODS AND LEARNINGS
World Café |
Appreciative Inquiry |
Circle |
Open Space Technology |
Collective Story Harvest |
Designing for Wiser Action
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Teaches & Models
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Landscape |
POEM: A Hopi Elder Speaks
"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered . . .
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader."
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, "This could be a good time!"
"There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.
"Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
"The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
-- attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder
Hopi Nation
Oraibi, Arizona
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader."
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, "This could be a good time!"
"There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.
"Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
"The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
-- attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder
Hopi Nation
Oraibi, Arizona