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      • Powerful Questions
      • World Cafe
      • Breath Pattern
      • Levels of Listening
      • Appreciative Inquiry
      • Circle
      • Foundational Patterns
    • Day 3: Leveraging Resources >
      • Organizing Patterns
      • Collective Story Harvest
      • Two Loops
      • Open Space
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      • Design for Wiser Action
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The Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Matter

September 15 - 18, 2019
CLOQUET FORESTRY CENTER     DULUTH, MN
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 PURPOSE, PARADIGMS, & PARADOX:

How do we build our capacity to navigate together
with ease ​for a thriving future?
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“If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.”
-African Proverb
​In a time when we are living and holding polarities across race, age, culture, religions and beliefs, there is a need to build our capacity for navigating our way together. We can find our way through our ability to hold paradox - it's not an "either or" but a "both and" that will help us find our way.  
In this 3-day "Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter" training, sometimes called "participatory leadership", you'll learn, lead and practice models, methodologies, and skills designed to enliven the potential of any engagement, whether in a team or across sectors. You'll have the opportunity to lead and practice “hosting conversations” using dialogue-based methodologies that are designed for working with complex challenges. These methods help to access the collective intelligence of a group so that new solutions can be discovered in truly collaborative ways. This practice  recognizes strategic dialogue as a driver for collaboration, development, and change. 
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Who can participate? Anyone who wants to develop their capacity to hold the paradox of our times through collaboration and participation skills - public service professionals,  entrepreneurs, social innovators, NGOs, leaders in business, educators - anyone seeking new ways of coming together in service to something larger than ourselves.
​Groups using the Art of Hosting practice report better decision-making, more efficient and effective capacity building, and greater ability to quickly respond to change. People who experience the Art of Hosting typically say that they walk away feeling more empowered and able to collaborate effectively with more desirable outcomes.

The Art of Hosting - Four-Fold Practice from Kevin McKeever on Vimeo.

We'll share our approach to collaborative ways of working, which we call the Four-Fold Practice. ​​
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This approach to collaboration is having a powerful impact around the world: in the European Commission, where thousands have been trained, at Swarowski in Switzerland, at Jyske Bank in Denmark, in every municipality in Sweden, in the healthcare system of Columbus, Ohio, and in countless communities, universities, nonprofits, businesses, and cross-sector initiatives.

Meet the Team

 Your hosting team has developed their experience of working with paradigms and polarities over the decades. ​We teach, train and utilize participatory leadership practices in the work that we do to help us hold the tensions of working in differences.
Jamie Harvie  |  ​Tracy Chaplin  |  Quanita Roberson  |  Wendy Morris | Joe Bartman
Viola Clark
  | Nelle Rhicard  |  Kristine Piasecki
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Location: Cloquet forestry center, 175 University Road, Cloquet, MN 55720

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About Our Venue

The Cloquet Forestry Center, located 135 miles north of St. Paul campus, AND JUST 30 MINUTES FROM DULUTH, offers a beautiful setting and holding for our work together.  It's home to trees of many ages, sizes and species. The northern Minnesota location is also the natural habitat for diverse wildlife. It’s not unusual to see moose, wolves, bears, lynx, bobcats, porcupines, pine martins, hares, goshawks, deer, and ruffed grouse.
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located within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation, CFC partnerS with the tribe on forest management and educational programming. 
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