CLST060 - Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations for Participatory Leadership

Course Description

The Art of Hosting is a leadership training course that scales up from the personal to the systemic, using leadership practices to enable the co-creation of innovations for complex challenges.

You will learn models and practices to maximize personal leadership abilities and collective intelligence while transforming conflict into creative solutions.

Course Outline

In this course, you will:

• Discover how these practices reveal powerful leadership and solution development options not present in current personal, organizational, or community development approaches
• Gain concrete, practical experience and tools to support participatory leadership initiatives and host meaningful conversations in challenging contexts

Unique to the AoH learning experience, some of the processes you will learn include:

• Traditional Circle Practices
• Four Fold Practice
• World Café
• Chaordic Path: Chaos and Order
• Diamond of Participation
• Organizational Paradigm
• Open Space Technology
• Triad
• Solo Time
• Pro Action Café
• Art of Harvesting
• Chaordic Stepping Stones
• Art of Powerful Questions
• The Work
• Two Loops of Innovation
• Flow Game
• Cynefin Framework
• Theory U
• Collective Story Harvest

Learner Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply leadership practices to co-create innovative solutions for complex challenges
• Maximize personal leadership abilities and collective intelligence
• Transform conflict into creative solutions
• Utilize participatory leadership tools and techniques in various contexts