The Hosts Index Cards
Maja
Element
Punchline
Tough fairy, bright priestess (stoere fee, heldere priesteres)
Sound
Goddess/Totem
Interests
Contemplative practices (meditation, including rituals)
Futuring
Pantheistic, non-anthropocentric processes
Total experiences
Skills
Design
Research
Framing
Keeping overview (big picture)
Summarizing
(Visual) harvesting
Multilingual hosting (4/5 languages)
Public speaking
Mentoring
Writing
Hands on: working with food and audiovisual media
Carrying movements
Harvesting insights
Penetrating visions
Nurturing experimentation
Boldly going …
Deep knowing
Explaining complicated processes in simple terms
'Meditation' at the start > create energy field between facilitators
Preparation!
Safety (create space & atmosphere)
Experience
Concept and programme development
Short & long processes (all aspects, different group sizes, hands-on and discussions, co-creation…)
Transdisciplinary, transsectorial and intercultural design
Experience and transmedia design
Meditation
Sectors: arts, science, engineering, policy, business, environment, medical, communities
Sectors
Cross-sectorial
Cross-generational
Cross-cultural
Nightmares
Dreams
Stevie
Element/Goddess/Totem
Punchline
Musical teleportation from the Middle Ages
Sound
Interests
Commercial sector
Patronage
Skills
‘Composing’ > nurturing creativity
Improvisation
Tuning in and making the best of people
Passionate Teaching/mentoring > to make music makers & make you into an active 'musician'
Leadership
Surprising
Unleashing energy
Enchanting
Experience
Sectors
Nightmares
Dreams
Eva DG
Element/Goddess/Totem
Punchline
Playful pixie pours her sharp look into words (speelse elf giet haar scherpe blik in woorden)
Sound
Associations
Interests
Personal growth
Healing
Walking/nature
Meditation
Rituals
Ecology
New systems
Holistic approaches
Serendipity
Skills
Experience
Creative writing
Hosting
Curating
P2P
Facilitation
Sectors
Nightmares
ActionReaction without bigger picture or compassion
Dreams
Collaboration and connection
Eva P
Element
Goddess/Totem
Punchline
An oak with a mossy coat (een eik met een jas van mos)
Sound
Interests
Sustainability & transition/change
Crafts & self-sufficiency
Nature-based spirituality (animism)
Things esoteric (sacred geometry, tarot, dreams, healing, …)
Structuring knowledge
Plants & trees, wild foraging
Plant lore & symbolism, mythology
Ancestorial history of Western Europe (Celts, Germanic culture) and ancient history in general
Music
Intuition & instinct
Helping people to reconnect to the power/strength within
Coaching
Skills
Language & communication (finding words; translating complex matter into comprehensive words)
Symbolical interpretation (the story behind people’s lives and experiences) & reading nature
Helicopter view
Connecting, inspiring & reassuring people
Creative thinking
The ability to put things into perspective and to make fun of yourself (zelfrelativering)
Vulnerability (in one-to-one conversations/ in taking initiative / in bringing things into the world)
Making sustainable choices & looking for sustainable options
Listening
Smile that makes people smile
Taking into account the energy of others
Open
Tengle with space, the surrounding, people
Taking care
Inspiring to look for alternative/for making differences
Actively looking for knowledge
Experience
Communication: writing short/to-the-point texts, blogging, facebook
Druid rituals
Writing/making a book, a calendar/holiday booklet (Nieuwsblad)
Structuring information (artist database BAM/Kunstenpunt)
Editing (correcting)
Gardening
Sectors
Nightmares
Facilitating loud, over-critical people who cannot hear the heart speaking
Unrealistic expectations and a heavy responsibility on my shoulders
Cynical, destructive companies/people
Disconnection and a feeling of abandonedness
Dreams
Working towards a society/community where everyone remembers their ‘connection’ (to nature, to the cosmos/the spirit, …) and we act from that connection
Sharing and offering ideas and watch or help them grow
A healed earth
Rasa
Element/Goddess/Totem
Sound
Punchline
Radiantly misguiding (Zet je stralend op het verkeerde been)
Interests
Skills
Generating energy
Cooking
Surprise elements
Opening people up
Hands-on, bodily kind of things
Assisting
Supporting
Hosting
Photographical documentation
Mentoring
Costume design as a part of the setting
Aesthetic touch
Making people experience different things
Sensuality (tear drop)
playing
Balancing (body, mind, belly > very centered)
Comforting, putting people at ease
Artistic guidance
Thinking out of the box
Cultural difference to bring to the present
Inspiring by bringing different experience
Good with kids
Experience
> plants and spices
Mentoring
Hunting for loose ends
Sectors
Nightmares
Dreams
Kathleen
Element/Goddess/Totem
Punchline
Earthly satyr and bright shaman (aardse plaaggeest en heldere sjamaan)
Sound
Interests
Skills
Facilitating
Empowering
Listening > summarizing
Connecting
Cooking
Humor
Homeliness
Self-connected and grounded
Focus on the process (hence: empowering & facilitating)
Self-assurance
Vigor (daadkracht)
Calmness and purposefulness (goal-orientedness) in difficult processes
Quickly grasping the purpose
Egoless creativity
Team spirit
Engaging the people (from all ways of life)
Lightening situations
Brave & courageous
Overview & relying on each other
Experience
Levuur/art of hosting: participatory processes
Sociale innavtiefabriek: coaching entrepreneurs, designing workshops, facilitating peer learning
Vooruit: ‘team’work, initiating chang process
Personal growth: burn out, resigning
Life changing courses: matrix, Joanna Macy, Theory U, bodywork
Sectors
Nightmares
Superficially going through the motion
Dreams
Barbara
Element
Goddess/Totem
Snake (metamorphosis, transformation, healing of others)
Punchline
Deadly gracious (dodelijk gracieus)
Sound
Interests
Skills
Imagination
Design
Research
Holding the space, flow, people, organization
Writing
Listening
Hosting & Connecting people
Honest
Warmth & vulnerability
Fragility without drama
Storytelling
Diplomatic skills, but not forgetting your own stands
Changer (veranderaar)
Disarming
Leader + charisma
Sees magic in the small things
A spirit that follows non-linear tracks (in creating)
Gentle (in the space, with the voice)
Self-assurance
Noticing value in other peoples creations and bring that up
Searching for more
Sensing the smallest change and adapting to that
Away from the concreteness of the pure form and deeply engaged with the content
Centered, has the capacity to noting slowly and wait until the right moment comes. She trusts that signs will show her the way.
Experience
Curating/making programs
Moderating
Creating new rituals
Teaching
Workshops for kids
Sectors
Nightmares
Dreams
Small drops changing the form of the rock
Luea
Element
Totem
Goddess
Interests
Societal Change and Transformation Processes
Regeneration and Systemic Approach
Being with Nature
The intangables and invisibles
Spaces were healing can emerge
The power of being together
Concioussness held and nourished by the whole
Emergence and the Unknown
Surrender and Trust
Healthy Business and wholistic Economy Approaches
Skills
Facilitation
Systemic Constellation
Listening and Holding Space
Healing and Creating Rituals for Threshold moments
Curating
Sensing and navigating with the bigger picture and complexity
Conflict resolution
Innovation Methodes: Dragon Dreaming, Theory U, Art of Hosting, indigenious Approach
Working with Places - Georelations
Going deep, embracing shadows
Connecting and bridging
Gardening and Cooking
Experience
Curating
Creating Programs and Trainings/Co-Learning Spaces
Holding short & long term processes for individuals and groups
Project Organisation and Managment
Social Innovation/inclusive Process for Communities and Organisations
International Collaboration
Personal Work
Sectors
Trans-sectorial (Arts, Community and Organisational Development, Business/Social Entrepreneurship, Bottom-Up Initiatives, Sustainability )
Trans-National/Cultural
Dreams
Co-Creation of all Life supporting Environments
Nightmares
Being stuck together in destructive patterns
Vali
Element / Goddess / Interests
People . Design . Innovation
Skills
Inspire people to Think differently
Ignite action in teams to Work together to
Create positive Impact and growth
Experience
Cross-sector, Cross-country, cross-professional and generational cultures
Working in Europe, USA, Africa and Asia
Programme Design and Coaching
Executive and Team Coaching
Certified Geek, including PhD, patents and innovations
Versed in business language, including MBA
Teaching Computer Science, in Africa and Europe
Teaching Leadership . Design . Innovation in business schools
Sectors
Business, NGO and Cultural sectors
Engineering, Science, Pharmaceutical, Art, Media
Dreams
Nightmares
Nik
Element
God/Totem
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Michka
Element
Totem
Interests
Breathtaking landscapes
Inspiring stories
Alternating enthusiasm-driven frenzy and slow quietness
Simple mind-shifting concepts and theories
Fireside chats about life and related topics
Making my heart beat through hiking or biking
Organizations emancipating their members
Challenging my mental models
Growing and/or making stuff
(Herbal) tea
Saucisson & cheese
Skills
Performing scientific experiments
Reading scientific literature
Getting inspired by nature, and helping other people do so
Building up simple prototypes
Fitting in many different contexts
Bringing exo-insights to given contexts
Working as a scientist with designers and artists
Experience
Sectors
Nightmares
Dreams
Alkan
Element
God/Totem
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Lies
Element
Goddess/Totem
Turtle (slow but steady, seemingly from another era observing the world)
Punchline
Incessantly slow moving (onophoudelijk traag bewegen)
Sound
Interests
Skills
observing
conversing
writing
drawing
sleeping
Generous
Understands
Can be practical in terms of how to make an idea into reality (practice)
Listening + christallizing the important
Long-time concentration
Encouraging people
Translates any experience into words without being afraid of being personal
Deep and growing connection to nature
Bringing people to higher level
Eye for teaching
Ability to be silent
Wonderful mother
Guiding meeetings - to make everyone included
Education and the arts
To see the attractiveness in something like mathematics or Sanskrit grammar
Experience
editing, translating, writing
organizing
facilitating group assessment
mothering
living
Sectors
the arts
education
real life
Dreams
Nightmares