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The Hosts Index Cards
Maja
Element
- Fire, Water
Goddess/Totem
- Kali
Interests
- Contemplative practices (meditation, including rituals)
- Futuring
- Pantheistic, non-anthropocentric processes
- Total experiences
Skills
- Design
- Research
- Framing
- Keeping overview (big picture)
- Summarizing
- Harvesting
- Multilingual hosting (4/5 languages)
- Public speaking
- Mentoring
- Writing
- Hands on: working with food and audiovisual media
Experience
- Concept and programme development
- Short & long processes (all aspects, different group sizes, hands-on and discussions, co-creation…)
- Transdisciplinary, transsectorial and intercultural design
- Experience and transmedia design
- Meditation
- Sectors: arts, science, engineering, policy, business, environment, medical, communities
Sectors
- Cross-sectorial
- Cross-generational
- Cross-cultural
Nightmares
- Homogeneous unmotivated groups who take much for granted and give nothing (vampires)
Dreams
- Transformational, long-term relationships and life-changing experiences (from one person to the whole world)
Stevie
Element/Goddess/Totem
- Sound
Interests
- Commercial sector
- Patronage
Skills
- ‘Composing’
- Improvisation
- Tuning in and making the best of people
- Teaching
Experience
- Cross-sector bridging
- Broadcasting
- Presentation/performance
- Teaching/mentoring
Sectors
Nightmares
Noise pollution
Dreams
Make music matter
Eva G
Element/Goddess/Totem
Interests
- Personal growth
- Healing
- Walking/nature
- Meditation
- Rituals
- Ecology
- New systems
- Holistic approaches
- Serendipity
Skills
- Facilitation/ hosting
- Coaching
- Project management
- Communication
- Social design
- Writing
- Humor
Experience
- Creative writing
- Hosting
- Curating
- P2P
Sectors
- Arts
- Maker culture
- Transition
- Cross-sectoral = interesting
Nightmares
Dreams
Eva P
Element
Water
Goddess/Totem
Cerridwen
Interests
- Sustainability & transition/change
- Crafts & self-sufficiency
- Nature-based spirituality (animism)
- Things esoteric (sacred geometry, tarot, dreams, healing, …)
- Structuring knowledge
- Plants & trees, wild foraging
- Plant lore & symbolism, mythology
- Ancestorial history of Western Europe (Celts, Germanic culture) and ancient history in general
- Music
- Intuition & instinct
- Helping people to reconnect to the power/strength within
- Coaching
Skills
- Language & communication (finding words; translating complex matter into comprehensive words)
- Symbolical interpretation (the story behind people’s lives and experiences) & reading nature
- Helicopter view
- Connecting, inspiring & reassuring people
- Creative thinking
- The ability to put things into perspective and to make fun of yourself (zelfrelativering)
- Vulnerability (in one-to-one conversations)
- Making sustainable choices & looking for sustainable options
Experience
- Communication: writing short/to-the-point texts, blogging, facebook
- Druid rituals
- Writing/making a book, a calendar/holiday booklet (Nieuwsblad)
- Structuring information (artist database BAM/Kunstenpunt)
- Editing (correcting)
Sectors
- Profit
- Pioneering groups
- Open-hearted, sensitive people who see the magic in small things
Nightmares
- Facilitating loud, over-critical people who cannot hear the heart speaking
- Unrealistic expectations and a heavy responsibility on my shoulders
- Cynical, destructive companies/people
- Disconnection and a feeling of abandonedness
Dreams
- Working towards a society/community where everyone remembers their ‘connection’ (to nature, to the cosmos/the spirit, …) and we act from that connection
- Sharing and offering ideas and watch or help them grow
- A healed earth
Rasa
Element/Goddess/Totem
Interests
- Interested in everything that grows (bacteria, kids, trees, …)
- Time-related thins
- Alternative methods
Skills
- Generating energy
- Cooking
- Surprise elements
- Opening people up
- Hands-on, bodily kind of things
- Assisting
- Supporting
- Hosting
- Photographical documentation
- Mentoring
Experience
- Dance
- Choreography
- Guiding and designing workshops
- Teaching
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Mentoring
- Hunting for loose ends
Sectors
Nightmares
Dreams
- Small steps with small groups
- Long-term relationships
- Activities that matter
Kathleen
Element/Goddess/Totem
Earth/fire
Interests
- Transition (processes) > micro>macro
- Bodywork/healing
- Spirituality
- Social entrepreneurship
- Peer learning
- Systemic (change
Skills
- Facilitating
- Empowering
- Listening > summarizing
- Connecting
- Cooking
- Humor
Experience
- Levuur/art of hosting: participatory processes
- Sociale innavtiefabriek: coaching entrepreneurs, designing workshops, facilitating peer learning
- Vooruit: ‘team’work, initiating chang process
- Personal growth: burn out, resigning
- Life changing courses: matrix, Joanna Macy, Theory U, bodywork
Sectors
Nightmares
Superficially going through emotion
Dreams
Deep impact
Barbara
Element
Air/Fire
Goddess/Totem
Snake (metamorphosis, transformation, healing of others)
Interests
- (social) rituals
- Non-acknowledged loss
- Farewell
- Funerals/death + arts
- Soul midwife
- Change/transition
- Storytelling
- Spiritual path
Skills
- Imagination
- Designing
- Holding the space
- Writing
- Listening
- Hosting/connecting
Experience
- Curating/making programs
- Moderating
- Creating rituals
- Teaching
- Children/workshops
Sectors
- Progressive people with green mind & heart looking for alternatives
- Education/arts
- Hospitals/ abortion centres > social sector
Nightmares
Burn-out
Dreams
Small drops changing the form of the rock
Luea
Element
Goddess/Totem
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Vali
Element/Goddess/Interests
People
Goddess/Totem
Design
Interests
Innovation
Skills
Inspire people to Think differently Ignite action in teams to Work together to Create positive Impact and growth
Experience
Cross-sector, Cross-country, cross-professional and generational cultures Working in Europe, USA, Africa and Asia Certified Geek, including PhD, patents and innovations Versed in business language, including MBA Executive and Team Coaching Programme Design Teaching Computer Science, in Africa and Europe Teaching Leadership . Design . Innovation in business schools
Sectors
Business, NGO and Cultural sectors Engineering, Science, Pharmaceutical, Art, Media
Dreams
Make Ideas Happen The Innovation Consultancy
Nightmares
Nik
Element
God/Totem
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Michka
Element
- Earth, fire
Totem
- Mountain bear
Interests
- Breathtaking landscapes
- Inspiring stories
- Alternating enthusiasm-driven frenzy and slow quietness
- Simple mind-shifting concepts and theories
- Fireside chats about life and related topics
- Making my heart beat through hiking or biking
- Organizations emancipating their members
- Challenging my mental models
- Growing and/or making stuff
- (Herbal) tea
- Saucisson & cheese
Skills
- Performing scientific experiments
- Reading scientific literature
- Getting inspired by nature, and helping other people do so
- Building up simple prototypes
- Fitting in many different contexts
- Bringing exo-insights to given contexts
- Working as a scientist with designers and artists
Experience
- (Action) Research
- Cross-discipline co-creation
- Boring Microsoft-Office-based tasks
- Facilitation
- Designers-scientists collaboration
- Science for artists
- A little bit of futurology (GBN/2×2)
- All of the above
Sectors
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Citizen science & technology
- (Bio-)design
- (Bio-)art
Nightmares
- Violence bursts rooting in misunderstanding, mean stupidity and absence of curiosity
- Banality of evil
- Collapse
- War
Dreams
- Thriving abundance and diversity
- Dynamic equilibrium
- Perfect matches
- Unexpected happy-ending non-linearities
- (More facilitation)