When you look around our community do you often find yourself in a place where you would like to have the courage to speak up and speak out on issues of diversity, inclusion, social justice and racism AND maybe actually have others hear you?
The three-day Art of Hosting: Courageous Community delves into having the kind of meaningful and tough conversations that are on your mind and heart, while receiving tools to mobilize your new skills in ways that have impact.
Our training nurtures a rich learning community in which you will:
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The Invitation
Our community is deeply calling for participatory leadership across our personal and professional practices – it is asking ALL of us to step into a new kind of leadership to get different results.
The kind of leader that can skillfully call important conversations and connect different perspectives to address our complex challenges and grow into our creative possibilities. To do the kind of healing and community building work that transcends silos and sectors to achieve true co-creation. As organizers of this training we wish to welcome participants from different contexts, places and spaces so that they can inspire and learn from each others lived experiences and expertise.
This work is inspired by a needs assessment conducted across community last summer identifying that some of the biggest barriers to our collective success is: our lack of capacity to dialogue across difference, a need for tools to understand and confront systemic racism, combined with a deep need for our community to understand and heal from the shared impacts of colonization.
The kind of leader that can skillfully call important conversations and connect different perspectives to address our complex challenges and grow into our creative possibilities. To do the kind of healing and community building work that transcends silos and sectors to achieve true co-creation. As organizers of this training we wish to welcome participants from different contexts, places and spaces so that they can inspire and learn from each others lived experiences and expertise.
This work is inspired by a needs assessment conducted across community last summer identifying that some of the biggest barriers to our collective success is: our lack of capacity to dialogue across difference, a need for tools to understand and confront systemic racism, combined with a deep need for our community to understand and heal from the shared impacts of colonization.
Who Should Come
THIS is for ALL people in our community that would like to increase their personal leadership and courage to be meaningful and powerful allies, advocates and participants in their world, their work to create some ‘safer space’ for their children, grandchildren and all folx!
The are of hosting will support you in the shift you might be seeking to:
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What Others Are Saying
Literacy Alberni and Klitsa Tutoring will be PROUDLY participating in The Art of Hosting: Courageous Community forum on October 4th to 6th, 2019. We ask all our community members, agency partners, supporters and allies committed to justice, equity, equality, and reconciliation, to register and participate. As service providers, there is much to be done to decolonize our services, empower our community, and bring justice to the lives of those we work for and with. I truly believe this forum will set some important foundations and building blocks in place for us to move with momentum to bring hope, power, and ethics into our relationships, advocacy, and praxes.
Please join us in the intention of building the support and skills needed to guide us towards increased collective well-being through the Art of Hosting: Courageous Community – a facilitation and leadership practice training that will build the skills for courageous action in your work and world:
- To be able to collaborate and work respectfully across difference
- To have the tools and skills that give the courage to speak up and speak out about issues of racism and discrimination in ways that generate learning
- To shift our lenses and ways of knowing and embrace personal practice of meaningful inclusion
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This Art of Hosting is being offered at a highly subsidized rate for this first time offering to our local community, with sponsor support from The United Church, West Coast Health Network, the Alberni Clayoquot Health Network, and School District 70 (Alberni).
The Schedule
We begin with supper on Friday, October 4th and some evening programming.
We continue all day on Saturday, October 5th and Sunday October 6th.
We will be complete on Sunday by 3:30pm.
We will be gathering at the Alberni District Secondary School.
We continue all day on Saturday, October 5th and Sunday October 6th.
We will be complete on Sunday by 3:30pm.
We will be gathering at the Alberni District Secondary School.
SO – what IS “The Art of Hosting”?
The Art of hosting is an international community of practice – with a growing group of practitioners from around the world and across our region adding to the inspiration and evolution of group dialogue and collective action.
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“The Art of Hosting” (AoH) is not a company or a trademark but rather a community engagement in the art of hosting ‘conversations that matter’ – ones that are needed, that are called for, that are catalysts for movement and change, be it in family, in organizations, in community or in large scale assemblies and conferences.
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The network is connected across all continents, with a nucleus that when we engage the collective wisdom and lived experience of those around us we can truly be in co-learning and co-developing the solutions to our most complex challenges!
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Sponsor support from The United Church, West Coast Health Network, Alberni District Secondary School, the Alberni Clayoquot Health Network, and School District 70 (Alberni).