28th June 2016 @ FoAM Bxl

Core questions: What activities would we like to support and develop together?

Flow: Check-in, Lunch, Activity Mapping, Monastery presentation
→ The day ended with a presentation and discussion with Karen Lens on adaptive reuse of monasteries in Flanders, and our potential involvement in the research and experiments.

Framing: As a hosting “community of practice”, our primary purpose is to learn from each other and support our individual and collective hosting activities - through discussion, advice, testing, co-hosting and co-creation. We begin with a mapping exercise, to get an overview of existing and potential activities/practices that each of us would like to contribute to the group. We can possibly use this map to come up with a set of criteria for inclusion of activities.

A summary of previous discussions about what the hosting community could be like and what might be its activities:

• Hosting community (in the world)
• Key factors (of success)
• Hosting practices (and activities)

See also activities, as discussed in previous gatherings.

• Process facilitation of participatory, multistakeholder, systemic transition/transformation workshops and programmes
• Hosting craft, an entry-level training course in hosting as a craft/practice
• Living with dis-ease, a thematic programme designed to inspire and enable the participants to creatively live with an illness or dis-ease
• Meaningful meals, hosting conversations as the symposia of old: dinner parties, multi-course lunches, standing receptions, cooking classes, food rituals, etc.
• Maja Rituals, rituals for unacknowledged loss, especially for women in transition
• (Life)writing a support group of (life)writers, readers and editors to share writing skills and experiences
• Guided meditations, meditative and contemplative experiences for individuals and groups
• Georelation, becoming aware of the effects the environment has on our senses and improving our relationship with it
• Soul Whispering, a programme to discover your true core…
• Earth Science Celebration, a symphony celebrating the scientific discovery of muscled fossils