In ending a year that was so challenging for so many, I want to start this new one by expressing my appreciation for the many gifts I have received from the Art of Hosting community. (Art of Hosting is an international network of participatory practitioners … Read More
Another Side of Covid Restrictions
One of the more interesting results of taking refuge in digital solutions for things we used to enjoy onsite was visible in this US election cycle. Nowhere was the phenomenon more outstanding than in the online inauguration party that crowned what was already a deeply … Read More
Dancing in the Ether
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on images for the 2021 series of Open Studio sessions that my co-creative partner FireHawk Hulin and I host as real-time accompaniments to our growing suite of evergreen courses on online hosting. We use visuals consciously … Read More
Online Hosting as Art Form
Recently I hosted a course with Holger Scholz and Jan Buckenmayer of Kommunikatslotsen called Online Hosting Now: Collective Wisdom in the Digital Realm. My dear friend and colleague Alan Briskin, co-author of The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly, was our … Read More
Thank you, Abe!
Abe Greenspoon was a participant in a course Rowan Simonsen and I just hosted as Beehive Productions called A Grounded Response to Online Engagement. The course was about another way to go about online engagement than the mad rush to take everything online that we … Read More
Visual Facilitation Field Guide: A Book Sprint
A couple of weeks ago now I spent three full days in San Francisco at the Grove Consultants International offices in the Presidio engaged in the coolest thing ever – a “Book Sprint” to collaboratively create a Field Guide on Visual Facilitation. This project is … Read More