Ecotone permaculture11/19/2022 Meaningful conversations can lead to wise action: inviting and involving people to work together to take ownership and responsibility.As in nature, all innovation happens at the edges of chaos. New solutions are born between chaos and order: we need to be ready to step into not knowing.The old organizational and governing patterns cannot create new solutions, and solutions are more comprehensive and owned if they are co-created, not imposed. New solutions are needed, because the old responses are not working.The patterns of the AoH emerge from observing and understanding nature and specifically systems, as human systems are not different from those in nature. It is an invitation to explore and embrace the paradoxes of chaos and order, leading and following, confusion and clarity, sacred and irreverent, content and process, and many more. The aim is to harness the collective wisdom and self-organization capacity of groups, a complete detachment from top-down, hierarchical leadership and organization patterns. The AoH is defined as “an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges.” Groups of community leaders from all around the world started to connect, first through email, then through mailing lists, then the first gathering was organized. New and complex challenges emerged and the old ways to view and solve problems no longer worked. Suddenly, hierarchies, dynamics and beliefs that have sustained an entire civilization started to crumble. This shift was also sensed at all levels: from individual to collective consciousness, to how structures and organizations work, govern themselves, make decisions and connect to each other and the natural world. The Art of Hosting emerged from the perception of a shift that involved both the breaking down of many systems and simultaneously something else emerging, giving way to lots of uncertainty and chaos of values, beliefs, governance processes and many other dynamics: what in ecological design is called an ecotone, or “edge zone”. The Art of Hosting is an evolving toolbox that explores these new tools in a compassionate, caring yet courageous and sometimes risky way: “stay with the fire” is one of the AoH mottos, you’ll learn this and more in this exciting introductory module. In these times, we need different tools, as the old have proven to be sustaining an oppressive system created to perpetuate the privileges of a few. In the introduction to the Art of Hosting, you will learn the roots, principles, best practices and tools, and will explore some of the methods used to deal with people. This applies not only to community projects but to households, couples, groups and organizations of any kind. If you have had the opportunity to engage in community work, group work in any type of organization or even be part of a permablitz, project or gathering, you may have noticed that things may not always go as you expect: people are always at the center of any decision-making process, design, communication and governance processes and those processes are what represent the challenge.Īlthough we may not lack the technology, skills, strategies, methods and resources to move forward, we need people on the same page if we want to achieve anything. What does the AoH have in common with ecological design, and why do we present this topic here? Art of Hosting in Bowen Island, BC November 2017 – All rights reserved
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