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Berkana Institute
Art of Hosting pages, including lots of resources on good facilitation practice
Chaordic Commons / 'Choard' definition
Global network of practitioners using the 'choardic' field concept in their work
Pioneers of Change
Global community of practice offering Art of Hosting programmes as well as consultancy and other courses.

"By chaord, I mean any self-organizing, self governing, adaptive, nonlinear, complex organism, organization, community or system, whether physical, biological or social, the behavior of which harmoniously blends characteristics of both chaos and order. Loosely translated to business, it can be thought of as an organization that harmoniously blends characteristics of competition and cooperation; or from the perspective of education, an organization that seamlessly blends theoretical and experiential learning."

Dee Hock, The Art of Chaordic Leadership, published in Leader to Leader, No. 15 Winter 2000

Contact me here if you're interested in bringing an 'art of hosting' workshop to your community or organisation.

It lasts 5 days, would involve at least three facilitators from the Art of Hosting network, and could involve up to 30 people.

Past/continuing
offerings:

Finding Voice
& Action Research
(5 day MSc accredited short courses introducing many methods for
CPD professionals and Masters students)

Conscious Leadership
(5 day intensive with elements of many
of these methods;
public and private sector individual participants)

Training for Transformation
(12 day intensive/
local popular education programme for local community activists; taster of many tools)

Story Dialogue
(1 day introduction offered in-house for publicSCDC, Inverness Council, Glasgow Literacies workers,
MSc students, etc.)

Slow Down, Go Further
(2 hour-1 day
workshop offered for change-makers)

Forthcoming:

Integral Sustainability
(5 day introduction to Integral Theory and leadership for systemic change for
change-makers)

Slow D

Find my CV here... in short:

My professional practice is grounded in over ten years' experience in popular education, groupwork faciliation and action learning/research consultancy.

I am a Teaching Fellow with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a doctoral student with the University of Bath Management School's Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice.