Conscious Co-Design

Conscious Co-Design: creating safe spaces to explore vulnerability in complexity Written by Dee Brooks Locating yourself within a number of given community engagement and development frameworks can be exciting, stress relieving and can open up new possibilities. Patterns in frameworks are as natural, and needed, as breathing; you just don’t know what you don’t know!…

Reflections of a Reluctant Apprentice

By Kerry Hartigan

I know that not all participants end up being practitioners. I know that not all stewards have been apprentices.  I believe that there are natural AoH practitioners who come with innate wisdom and experience, without ever joining an AoH gathering. I began to wonder what it would look like if people were asked: ‘Tell me about your AoH journey?”

The Art of Coasting Stewardship and Beyond!

By Dee Brooks and Kerry Hartigan
Art of Hosting, Ballina, NSW, Australia

The Art of Coasting provided a place to “hold space” for ourselves and each other for gentle healing and catharsis and also for genuine learning and growth. As a Core Team, we all left this training feeling like we had equally contributed, we had experienced a deep learning together and we were equally valued.

Designing Deep Dialogue

I’ve been an Intentional Nomad for over 3 years now and to date, participatory co-designing of meetings, forums, conferences and events is the work that stretches me! Due to not having a physical address or community who I live amongst, I have discovered a few ways to strengthen my own global community while supporting others.

I’ve been thinking…

….about Hosting Community Written by Dee Brooks Mike Green and Henry Moore of the ABCD Institute were onto something, years ago, when they coined the phrase “leading by stepping back” as a successful way to work within a community. Many years ago, when I was frustrated with how ABCD could be applied in transient communities,…