The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter
- Website: https://artofhosting.org/
- Summary: The Art of Hosting is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges.
Flow Game
- Website: https://flowgame.net/
- Summary: A way to find clarity together. The Flow Game is a powerful tool for creating an interactive reflection, dialogue and action space for groups, teams and individuals. Playing a game is a simple way to ground, strengthen and bring clarity. The Flow Game is deceptively simple. Groups are always surprised at how it creates a supportive, challenging, and unique opportunity to explore the present or future in an intuitive and insightful way.
Hosting and Holding Space
- ‘The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters’ by Priya Parker (Penguin, 2018)
- ‘The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership’ by Heather Plett (Page Two Books, 2020)
Living Systems and Related
- ‘Reinventing Organisations: A Guide to Creating Organisations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness’ by Frederic Laloux (Nelson Parker, 2014)
Two Loops – short blog explainer by Chris Corrigan
- Part One: https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-two-loops-model-of-change-part-1/
- Part Two: https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-two-loops-model-of-change-part-2/
- Part Three: https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-two-loops-model-of-change-part-3/
Theory U
Website: https://www.u-school.org/theory-u
- ‘Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges’ by C. Otto Scharmer (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2009, 2016)
- The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications’ by C. Otto Scharmer (2018) (Berret-Koehler Publishers)
Circle Practice
Websites:
- Virtual circles https://healingcirclesglobal.org/how-to-host-a-virtual-circle/ and https://www.thecircleway.net/articles/2016/10/4/virtual-circles
- ‘Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture’ by Christina Baldwin (Swan, Raven & Company, 1994)
- ‘The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair’ by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linea (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2010)
Questions
- ‘The Art of Powerful Questions Catalysing Insight, Innovation and Action’ by Eric E Voigt, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
The Art of Harvesting
A framework for planning a harvest, Chris Corrigan –https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/a-framework-for-planning-a-harvest/
Listening
- C. Otto Scharmer’s ‘four levels of listening’: https://worldofwork.io/2020/10/otto-scharmers-4-levels-of-listening-be-a-better-listener/
- Coaching Outside The Box, 3 levels of listening: https://www.coachingoutsidethebox.net/3-levels-listening/
- Steven Covey’s 5 levels of listening https://fireflies.ai/blog/levels-of-listening/
Checking-in and checking-out
See example questions at
- https://www.thecircleway.net/articles/2016/12/27/questions-for-check-ins
- https://www.iirp.edu/images/conf_downloads/RZrVvi_Sample_Prompting_Circles_Questions.pdf
- https://sites.google.com/schoolcraftcs.org/restorativepractices/circles/circle-questions
World Café
- Website: https://theworldcafe.com/
- ‘The World Cafe: Shaping our Futures through Conversations that Matter’ by Juanita Brown with David Isaacs
- The World Cafe Community (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2005)
Open Space Technology
- Website: https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/
- Summary: Open Space Technology is a simple way to run productive meetings and a powerful approach to transformation. Each participant is allowed and challenged to maximise their own learning and contribution, towards the accomplishment of important shared goals. Groups of any size and diversity can self-organise quickly and easily around the issues and questions they care about. This creates alignment and momentum to get complex and urgent work done.
- ‘Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide’ by Harrison Owen (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1997).
All About People 