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Training - The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter

27/4/2014

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This 3-day training was held in Brisbane from November 25-27 2013, hosted by National Disability Services Queensland and supported by our Community of Practitioners.
The workshop was a chance to explore Art of Hosting as a tool for system and organisational change, around the question:
"How do we build the trust and confidence within our systems for collaborative action to flourish in service of our communities?"
Download the invitation

day 1 - stepping in

This is a poetry harvest / reflection of Day 1, 25 November. Thanks Jane :)

What a wonderful and inspiring first day - more to come! 
What makes your heart sing?
Does anything make your heart sing?

Silence....oh terrible, terrible silence
Here's what makes my heart sing
Oh, Thank god!!! Oh, you make my heart sing...
Everything..

Music, learning, hearing, glimpsing that thing
Disobedience, courageous righteousness
I'm at a higher resonance

The perfect wedding moment,
Bridezilla upstaged
Continues to delight - brings a smile to my face

Simplicity, escaping complexity
Beautiful nature, mother and her daughters
Light coming in through the cracks
Knowing doesn't rely on intellect

Here to find a new way
For everyone to have a place to belong
People, doing that thing, that thing that they love, fully alive
Beautiful or bad, tears in my eyes

I matter most when we deeply engage
Intimate conversation, human beings amaze
Learn from the littlies
Please get it! Literacy!

Words perfectly formed and deep belly laughs
Look up! you have moved! How far you have come!

The bad guys, the good guys, broken things that need fixing
Innocent humour and deep and strong feeling

A grumpy old Yorkshireman who doesn't know who he is
He has looked all over but doesn't know where it is

The mosh pit, the young ones, the kings of Leon
The joyous heart opening at the sound of the song

Drunken singing, collective expression of joy
There's love in Slovenia and there's a toy boy

This is wrong, this is wrong, but I found a way in.
Ordinary, extraordinary, no one thing

I am an artist
Creating, making, gardening
Belonging with me makes my heart sing

Guardian calls: today it's Mel
She will ring the Bossy bell

Four fold practice, walk with another
Wake up to the world!

Know yourself, know each other
Wandering through the hallowed aisles
In Coles and Aldi you could walk the miles

I am my phone
Keeps me all alone

I swim in the sea
And in the galaxy

I watch your bodies
They speak to me

I hold my hands
Dont let them free

Hosts take your posts!
Welcome to the cafe

Questions within questions
Did you get an oooo today?

Uber you uber me, ah-ha-ah
There is plenty you can do, and be

Sit in quiet, find your learning edge
Speak to the circle
Or keep as a pledge

Village news
Practice, you!
Forced participation?
Never, except for you...

In place of results,
Harvesting is new

Intentional Purpose and the Harvesters
Coming soon to a circle near you

We stand in line still alive
Jan's a 10, but most 6.5

wicked questions

Day 1, and we were exploring some of The Four Fold Practices through World Cafe. The result - some truly wicked questions!

Round 1: We asked -

How can I stay truly inspired to practice mindful conversations, and be curious about the outcome?


The table harvest was: What's one question that would help take your learning about being hosted to another level?

  • How do we unlearn what we know in order to let go of control?
  • How do we develop the courage to participate effectively?
  • How can we stay inspired on those 'low ebb' days?
  • What are we really talking about?
Round 2: We asked -

How can I create opportunities for myself and others to do our best work together?

The table harvest was: What's one question that would help take your learning about hosting others to another level?

  • How do you get someone to share honestly about their opinion?
  • What does it take to create a good call to conversation?
  • If we harvested our individual narratives from the protracted silence at check-in, what would we learn?
  • How does the communication preceding the conversation enhance the conversation?
Round 3: We asked -

What will it take to develop and sustain relationships to harness our collective wisdom?

The table harvest was: What's one question that would help take your learning about co-creation to another level?

  • How do we harness and exploit individual vulnerability to create collective strength?
  • What are you willing to let go of?
  • How do you create action from common ground?
  • How can we ensure we bring the 'they' into the 'us' and retain diversity?

day 2 - stepping up

day 3 - stepping out

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COP workshop 18 November 2013

27/4/2014

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What becomes possible when participatory processes are embedded in my work, my organisation, my community?
View the invitation to this full day community of practitioners gathering at NDS Innovation Hub in Brisbane, on 18 November 2013.
Our Open Space marketplace!
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The final harvest!
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bundaberg participatory leaders in action

27/4/2014

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Participatory Leaders in Action
Bundaberg 29 February 2012
Health & Communities Workforce Council hosted 42 people from the social services sector in Wide Bay / Burnett area for a day’s exploration of participatory leadership focusing on the Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Really Matter.
Jan Ungerer (Workforce Council, Queensland), Monica Nissén (Denmark) and Mary Alice Arthur (New Zealand) were hosts.
Read the harvest newsletter
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COP workshop 31 July 2013

27/4/2014

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Here is the invite to our Community of Practitioners workshop on 31 July 2013 in Brisbane
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About 20 practitioners from Queensland and Victoria gathered at the Innovation Hub at NDS in Lutwyche on 31 May for a full day workshop.
The themes of learn, practice, share were woven into sessions to look deeper into the calling question:
How do we create the conditions for participatory processes to continue to thrive
in Queensland?

There is great energy and we look forwarding to another practice day in November - stay tuned for details. You can take a look at the 31 July harvest here and in the picture below.

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COP gathering 4 April 2013

27/4/2014

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Here is a harvest of the conversations at a Community of Practitoners event oShare a story about a time when connectedness and relationship were central to making something important happen:

  • Isolated kindergartens in rural Queensland. Connected by a common purpose during a tough time. Supporting and sharing resources to allow flooded kindys to get back on their feet. A sense of a great need - of givinga nd receiving.
  • My new job in NFP sector. I met Jane and others through volunteering, realising how people are connected. I feel more connected in this sector in Brisbane than in the past 20 years working in the financial sector - where I didn't fit in. Lightbulbs going off - reinforcing the connectnedness. The dynamism of this sector felt right!
  • I am noticing being back at work in an organisation that values people and pays attention to relationship. I an now reconnecting back to relationships - and life is being breathed back into me. Initial connections can lead to lasting relationships.  have made connections through India - a web with lots still to unfold. It is all about relationship! Everything is easier in good relationship.
  • Serendipitous meeting many years ago - a connection forged through generosity and openness, and no other agenda. Has led to a fortunate position now.  If we approach our relationships in this way - what might happen?
  • 30 Mob - community of practice of service managers through National Disability Services. A group central to making things happen, and life changing for me. Relationships endure, forged through fun - celebrating others' successes. Like family. Projects, mergers, some have moved on, now looking at forming a collaborative enterprise together.
  • It feels safe to be here - it makes a difference to participation. What's the risk if we don't stay connected?
    My mum kept our family separate for many years. There has been much work done to get and stay connected. My sister has become my support, strength from being beside me. Relationship cultivated through intention and maintenance - hard work to recover from disconnection and to maintain. It was confronting, and both of us were willing.
  • Realising that work is all about relationship, the living system, not the heirarchy. How I have forged a way for myself in my work, with a role where I now have some influence, not positional power. I realise that I could not be here, and be doing the work I am able to do without having forged good relationship with people all through the organisation. It is what feeds me, and what makes us healthy.
Other discussions / actions

  • Seek availability of Art of Hosting stewards visiting Australia for UCC AoH Training - to see if we can do something with our Community of Practice. Jane to speak with Phil
  • International Learning Village Slovenia - a few of us are intending to go!
  • Call for workshop in Graphic Facilitation. Jane to speak with Kylie regarding an introductory workshop.
  • Mel to investigate online tools for sharing and collaboration for Community of Practice - something that is easy to use, and act as an online repository for shared stories, learnings, resources and information.
  • Sharing the harvest and making it easy! A commitment to doing a collective harvest of the meetings at the time, taking photographs and uploading them to online tool (above) as a record. Share hosting the harvest.
Check out: How do I feel right now?

  • Listening to stories has a long ranging effect.
  • Good to be slow - away from busy work
  • Feel good - excited about what will emerge
  • Fills a need for me, to reconnect, to see Community of Practice grow. Allows me to take it back to my work
  • So important to connect
  • Still early days for me - I want to learn more about and be involved in (the CoP), feeling positive
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QLD COP 30 Nov 2012

27/4/2014

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Queensland Community of Practitioners gathering
30 November 2012
Who was there?
Jane Geltch, Frank Martin, Tracey Jones, Elvene Whitehead, Sue-Ellen Weedon, Jan Ungerer, Michelle Phillips, Cate Houston, Penny Hamilton, John Turrisi, Wallis Westbrook, Mel Geltch, James Harvey.

CHECK IN - What do you hope to get from today?
Come together – recognised a common calling
Lots of energy for the beauty of the process …. being together
Magic happens ….. something you don’t expect …. and it’s beautiful
Intention to hold today lightly
In a learning phase
Nice to have people say “we’ve always got your back”
Wondered “How could this way of working ever thrive in the government sector?”  …. And I’ve seen the exponential changes in my workplace
Transformational tools
Keep the wank factor out of it
Amazes me how simple this stuff is ….. it brings about change
I really like learning from people.   I sit back and wish I was as good as other people ……. Stalking other people and seeing what they do.   It’s about doing it differently
Wake up with a smile on my face ….. I get to do this stuff full-time
I need a bit of a fix ….. a stop, reconnect and a think
Being human ….. being able to sit in those kinds of conversations …. Inspiring …. Energising
“Clarity of purpose is the invisible leader”
Listen with curiosity
Fear and doing it anyway
“What’s the risk if I don’t do it?”
Trembling ….  The point of no return

A pairs process asked us to share a story of when everything was in flow. Here's the harvest:
  • The dark side: the flip side / the shadow
  • Open to learning – what is the will that drives us?
  • Mix of motives
  • Different folks make up the whole: skills / motives / values
  • Challenge & fear > learning. What is the risk if I don’t do this?
  • Got your back! Not alone
  • Trust & respect takes time
  • Ask for help / support
  • Open to opportunity
  • Right people
  • Courage to step up
  • Connections to others > driven by people, need, relationships > integrity drives us forward
  • Toke’s ‘trembling’: the point where you KNOW you must do it – point of no return
  • Internal needs marrying with external …..
In order to find out: Where is the energy for our CoP right now?  We did some action planning.We started with a group cluster session of the collective harvest from previous process.
Focussing on the calling question... "what do you love enough to bring into being for yourself and this community of practitioners?" - where is the energy and how can this CoP support this?
Small groups took 3 ideas and used action planning templates to explore the ideas further, and come back to the group to share. Here are the results:

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Sensemaking and participatory leadership at UCC

27/4/2014

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Phase one of Uniting Care Community's preparation for the National Disability Insurance Scheme culminated in two major workshops in April 2013.
The first, a two day Sensemaking event, saw more than 200 people respond to the question: “How do we build our capacity as an organisation and as individuals to respond creatively and sustainably to the future under the NDIS?”
The purpose of the workshop was to collectively make sense of the challenges and possibilities ahead, in order to inform phase two of the work – the implementation phase.

The second three-day workshop, attended by 132 people (including a few from outside UCC), was a Participatory Leadership workshop which aimed to build participatory process skills and practice within UCC. Read the harvest newsletter - thanks Penny Hamilton for sharing it with us!
See an explanation of what participatory leadership is by Valmae Rose on page 5 - it might help in your organisation :)

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