The new stuff we are doing in the Art of Hosting

Looking across Lake Simcoe this morning through the thunderstorms. I’m in Ontario these two weeks, having just run a short Art of Hosting two-day workshop for the Canadian Labour Congress and heading to Peterborough tomorrow to begin our Reimaginging Education Art of Hosting (still seats available!). And next month in Vancouver our bi-annual Art of Hosting will run November 17-19 (and still seats for that one too!). Each workshop is always different as we continue to explore this body of work, and use different ways of teaching, learning, and connecting. In the last few months I have been diving into teaching complexity differently, using much more embodied experiences to explore the relationship between chaos and order and the role of the practitioner in working with this dynamic. At the CLC last week we were working with 28 experienced labour educators and so we took a dive below methods. We used several methods both to reflect on the experience of being hosted, and to meaningfully…