Synonymous with Creating a Container?

  --John Abbe.....Wed May 05 11:17:01 -0700 2010

I think the difference between them is more clear now that this pattern has been filled out more. Creating a Container as we've defined it is more about facilitation skills, whereas hosting is getting the physical set-up right plus a sense of gracious hospitality toward participants.

  --Tree Bressen.....Thu May 06 16:41:52 -0700 2010

I made some additions, based on the way World Cafe and Art of Hosting use the word, which goes beyond the way it was being described in what I think are important ways.

Amy Lenzo Friday May 7th

In the Art of Hosting community of practice we often use the term hosting to refer to facilitating from within the field, using it to make a clear distinction between working with a living systems world view. It's not necessarily a "softer" approach, but rather is a more sensitive approach I think. In other words, the word "hosting" is used to heighten the awareness of the myriad of dynamics that are present in a container and a field.

Hosting is also a leadership stance and can scale up from the level of an individual table host in a cafe to a team of people hosting transformatio nwithin a system. We are looking for scalable practices that work for this form of leadership currently.

  --Chris Corrigan (Not signed in).....Fri Jul 16 12:55:10 -0700 2010

I just added a bunch to the description here, some of which I removed from Aesthetics of Space (they had nothing to do with aesthetics). I considered making the additions to Power of Place but that seems to be primarily about *selecting* a place, so even if it broadens Hosting a bit they seemed to fit best here.

  --John Abbe.....Tue Dec 28 13:28:14 -0800 2010