• Worldview Shifts-Transformations-Alignments

    Very early on in our work with worldviews we discovered their transformative abilities through the conversations people engaged in, equipped with a new language that allowed for taking a step back and entering conversations through a different orientation or vantage point. The simple invitation has always been, “Perhaps you can expand your worldview just enough

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  • Artificial Divides or Not?

    There is a river that runs through a county in Nova Scotia where we have been working with a client, hosting conversations about health care and community. Since day one of visiting, beginning with one-on-one interviews with community leaders, we have heard about the “east/west divide that is not really a divide”. Yet, in five

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  • A Simple Strategy to Amp Up Team Performance

    How do you amp up team performance? By creating a meeting structure that consistently changes the quality and power of team meetings and therefore team performance. In November 2018, three people from one of our larger clients, Sanford Health, came to one of the two-day Art of Hosting Intensives we have created. These two-day intensives

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  • Alignment Between Traditional Lakota Conversation Practices and Art of Hosting

    Recently I (Jerry) co-hosted an Art of Hosting (AoH) training at Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa with LeMoine LaPointe. LeMoine is an elder from the Lakota Nation at Rosebud. Turtle Mountain Nation residents are mainly Ojibwa or Meti. LeMoine is a good friend and wise leader. He is an active practitioner of the Art of

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