==== Hosting Gathering June 2016 ====

28th June 2016 @ FoAM Bxl

Core questions: What activities would we like to support and develop together?

**Flow**: Check-in, Lunch, Activity Mapping, Monastery presentation\\
-> The day ended with a presentation and discussion with [[https://uhasselt.academia.edu/KarenLens/Papers|Karen Lens]] on adaptive reuse of monasteries in Flanders, and our potential involvement in the research and experiments.

**Framing**: As a hosting "community of practice", our primary purpose is to learn from each other and support our individual and collective hosting activities - through discussion, advice, testing, co-hosting and co-creation. We begin with a mapping exercise, to get an overview of existing and potential activities/practices that each of us would like to contribute to the group. We can possibly use this map to come up with a set of criteria for inclusion of activities.

A summary of previous discussions about what the hosting community could be like and what might be its activities:
  * [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/27977679100/|Hosting community]] (in the world)
  * [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/27977680800/|Key factors]] (of success)
  * [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/28224473076/|Hosting practices]] (and activities)



=== Mapping community practices===

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See also [[activities]], as discussed in previous gatherings.


== Enabling participatory processes ==
  * [[Process facilitation]] of participatory, multistakeholder, systemic transition/transformation workshops and programmes (stewards: Maja, Luea, Kathleen)
    * This includes developing a **Toolbox** of hosting approaches, techniques and methods, such as multistakeholder organisational development, constellations (systemic witnessing), futurecrafting, the lab approach, regenerative approach, etc. As an example of such a toolbox, specifically for futuring workshops, see the [[:/futurist_fieldguide/start|Futurist Fieldguide]]
  * [[Meaningful meals]], hosting conversations as the symposia of old: dinner parties, multi-course lunches, standing receptions, cooking classes, food rituals, etc. 
    * Including: [[Inspirational dinners]] (steward: Kathleen)

== Art & Care ==
  * [[Living with dis-ease]], a thematic programme designed to inspire and enable the participants to creatively live with an illness or dis-ease (steward: Maja)
  * [[Maja Rituals]], rituals for unacknowledged loss, especially for women in transition (steward: Barbara)
  * [[Stereotypes]], long term collaboration with people with autism (steward: Rasa)

== Training, Coaching & Mentoring ==
  * [[Hosting craft]], an entry-level training course in hosting as a craft/practice (steward: Maja)
  * [[Apprenticeships]], learning by supporting (master-apprentice) (steward: Ingrid)
  * [[Artistic Coaching]], individual coaching sessions for creative professionals (steward: Rasa)
  * [[Soul Whispering]], a creative programme to discover your true core... (steward: Eva DG, Eva P)
    * [[Walk-Sit-Lie-Pray]] artistic life coaching (steward: Eva DG)

== Artful experiences ==
  * [[Viriditas Choir]] (steward: Stevie)
  * [[Earth Science Celebration]], an audiovisual work celebrating the scientific discovery of muscled fossils (steward: Stevie)
  * [[Spells]], aspirations and invocations for daily life (steward: Ingrid)
  * [[Portraits]] pairing portraits of people with plants (steward: Rasa)


== Contemplation and presence ==
  * [[Guided meditations]], meditative and contemplative experiences for individuals and groups (steward: Maja)
  * [[Retreats]], deep consciousness, contemplation, (re)wilding, vision quests (steward: Eva DG, Eva P)
  * [[Georelation]], becoming aware of the effects the working environment has on our senses and improving our relationship with it (steward: Luea)


== Walking ==
  * [[Garden stories]], connecting plant myths to contemplation, creative activities, sensory walks etc. (steward: Rasa, Eva P)
  * [[Gathering walks]], connecting the practice of walking to an exchange of hunting/gathering knowledge and the aesthetics of the experience  (steward: Ingrid)
  * [[Wilding]], silent walks in nature, incl. excursions to energetic sites, walking and storytelling, barefoot walking, tree climbing, wild swimming (steward: Eva P.)


== Writing ==
  * [[life_writing|(Life)writing]] a support group of (life)writers, readers and editors to share writing skills and experiences (steward: Maja, Eva DG, Eva P)
  * [[Nomad's land]], travelogue of a nomad tribe (steward: Lies)
  * [[Transiency book]], a travel guide for personal and systemic transitions (steward: Luea)