Why Bring Social Presencing Theater into our Art of Hosting?

After having offered multiple Art of Hosting (AoH) trainings for our community and training over 700 local people in having Conversations That Matter over the years, Deb, Phil, and I still love it and get inspired by every group that joins us for our three day intensives.  We host these AoH's because we believe that one of our most important roles as stewards of the global AoH community is to make sure that we are sharing our learning and learning together with others in our community. 

And there’s so much to share!  We are learning a ton all the time as we engage in long-term change efforts locally and go further afield and learn with AoH practitioners around the world in projects and trainings - big and small.

And we’re committed to learning with our field here in Columbus, Ohio. That’s why, when we became friends with Heidi Madsen, a Social Presencing Theatre practitioner here in town, we were so excited to see how we could bring Social Presencing Theatre  (SPT) into an Art of Hosting training in a meaningful way.

If you’re not familiar with SPT, you can find out more about it here.  It’s an approach developed by Arawana Hayashi , and I’ve found myself describing it simply as a “different way of knowing and listening”.  It’s an embodiment practice that augments our typical ways of conversing and helps us be together in deep and meaningful ways.

And it’s fun!  Heidi’s a professionally trained clown (yep, there’s a school for that!), and she makes the SPT practices easy, accessible, meaningful, and joyful.  If you want to know more about Heidi, please check her out over at the Columbus Arts Council site (here and here).  

I’ve started describing this Art of Hosting as an “Art of Hosting Plus” - you’ll learn all the methodologies and theory that are present in a typical AoH, have all the meaningful conversations and learn skills and practices, AND we’ll get to experience a new way of being together.

Please join us May 15-17, 2015.  We’d love to have you with us!

For more info about the upcoming Art of Hosting, please go here.  

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