Hosts: Ria Baeck & Samantha Slade
About: We see sprouting new organizational cultures (like Agile, Scrum, self-management), we notice new organizational structures (like Holacracy and Sociocracy 3.0) and we come across new models for ownership (like the Commons, cooperatives). They are like new windows into the living systems worldview that we share. As hosts of this track, we think we can amplify new organisational systems if we combine them with our (AoH) participatory culture (practices, models and methods).
Our guiding question will be: How can the AoH practice amplify the new organizational models and operational systems?
About: We see sprouting new organizational cultures (like Agile, Scrum, self-management), we notice new organizational structures (like Holacracy and Sociocracy 3.0) and we come across new models for ownership (like the Commons, cooperatives). They are like new windows into the living systems worldview that we share. As hosts of this track, we think we can amplify new organisational systems if we combine them with our (AoH) participatory culture (practices, models and methods).
- Can we step up our practice and go from hosting events to hosting businesses and organizations; where the participatory practice and consciousness can translate in new organizational models and operational systems in culture, in structure and in ownership?
- What if Art of Hosting is part of the new business savvy ?
- How can we, ourselves, be participatory business leaders?
Our guiding question will be: How can the AoH practice amplify the new organizational models and operational systems?
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Flow of the Track
Track 6: Art of Hosting and new organisational paradigms
Day 1
Checkin Why did I choose this track?
Story Samantha and Percolab
After 16 years of life in traditional organisations, Samantha co-founded Percolab as an exploration into new ways of being and doing within organisations. Percolab has spent the last 10 years rethinking how an organisation is set up, how it functions and its operational tools - looking at our place of work as an everday place of practice.
Deconstructing operational meetings- Think of the past week. Identify one moment I offered help, and one moment I was given help.
Sharing of Percolab's Asking for help typology
Identify two requests for help that can be made here and now; write on each side of a paper.
Helping each other time : walk in random manner, show your question to the one you meet, see if it resonates; if not, show the other side. Start helping each other; or move on to another person.
Checkout: What are we learning?
Day 2
Checkin – One line drawing – How am I feeling?
One line – one color
Collective Decision Making
4-D mapping
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Day 1
Checkin Why did I choose this track?
Story Samantha and Percolab
After 16 years of life in traditional organisations, Samantha co-founded Percolab as an exploration into new ways of being and doing within organisations. Percolab has spent the last 10 years rethinking how an organisation is set up, how it functions and its operational tools - looking at our place of work as an everday place of practice.
Deconstructing operational meetings- Think of the past week. Identify one moment I offered help, and one moment I was given help.
Sharing of Percolab's Asking for help typology
- Ask me questions (coaching)
- Show me how to... (demonstrate)
- Tell me information or perspective (local knowledge/experience based)
- Give me expert advice (expertise based)
- Think creatively with me (idea generation)
- Give me feedback on my idea, model (enriching)
- Be my audience/participant (practice)
- Provide me moral support (emotion)
- Give me a hand... (physical help)
- Loan/give me something (material support)
- Protect and care for me (abuse support)
- Make sense with me (intellectual/intuitive)
Identify two requests for help that can be made here and now; write on each side of a paper.
Helping each other time : walk in random manner, show your question to the one you meet, see if it resonates; if not, show the other side. Start helping each other; or move on to another person.
Checkout: What are we learning?
- How to allow ourselves to ask questions?
- We are deconstructing operational meeting. The essence is to move things forward.
- Deconstructing the resistance to asking for help.
- I'm getting all my needs are met – went practical. It's right there. There is this long history the buck stops here and I am responsable. The cost of being irresponsable. You tend to not to ask for help because it makes you vulnerable. Underneath it is the courage to ask for help.
- Being able to drill it down to one thing. What is something I can ask for and can get an aswer to here? Not being grandiose. It's a learning experience. Identifying how to ask a question you can get some anwers to.
- The commons – what you need if you want to co-create – there is one specific hurdle – for us who are used to holding the group – to trust in the solidarity – it's part of the commoning thing. It's more than sharing them. It's in the circle. I can be held by the group as much you hold it.
- What if the collective reality is that we all have needs? Is it the commons we are stewarding?
- This was an exercice in attracting the help that is needed. - a physical representation
- I'm feeling – the attractiveness of being in organisation that makes the building of this explicit.
- The need for ongoing commitment. Reciprocity.
- It's shifted how I think in training. In the framing I would mention – an explicit exercice around that and do an activity around asking and offering help.
- In open space asking for help to be listened to. Listen I need this. Not the whole thing. Courage to clarify. Or to say no.
- Helps to frame the question. Clarifies in depth what is actually the type of help.
- You can be a lot more explicit - I realised I wasn't exactly clear and I got great help.
- Aknowledging needs and do what feels right.
- I got a whole bundle of those – in response.
- It helps the help be more complete. Do I really know what i need?
- As all typologies go – real life is more messy. In response you get many – it launches a new social dynamic.
- Joys of projection.
Day 2
Checkin – One line drawing – How am I feeling?
One line – one color
Collective Decision Making
- 4 types of decision making
- Types of decisions
- Experience: Generative decision making method
4-D mapping
- Introduction
- Experience
- Debrief
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Key Documents
Collective Harvest by Participants
Powerful questions
Personal takeaways
Major Insights
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Practices:
Implications for my hosting & harvest practice
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Looking back - by Ria Baeck
We find ourselves in a new context in the world: old systems are failing and new ideas are coming in (Teal movement, and so much more). It seems that we are evolving from ‘hosting conversations that matter’ – which is with awareness and with a lot of practices – to a real integration of ‘hosting and harvesting’ and ‘hosting, harvesting and organising’. Another way of naming this is that we see more and more integration of many different elements that were before more on the edge, or not so conscious, or not yet visible, or more in polarization and so on. Here are some integrations that we see: Host every day as if we were hosts – host life itself: practice in spheres where we might not be comfortable… which are not ‘projects’ or not ‘with clients’… Hosting our own organizations and businesses AS our practice:
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This all builds on a deeper integration within ourselves.
It is not ‘just’ the rising of the feminine, but the integration within ourselves of feminine and masculine aspects, who work in synergy within ourselves, and between us, in true co-creation. So, it will ripple out to society.
This might ask for a next-stage practitioner training, building the capacities that sit underneath our methodologies; but in the end it was said: this kind of practitioners’ gathering is like the next-stage training! |