“And when there is nothing left to do but live,
let us retire the noise,
and build a home inside the stillness.”
That is how the poet Bobby LeFebre begins his poem Nothing Left, which he writes to offer inspiration for his community in Colorado, US through the Covid-19 crisis. One doesn’t have to be an American to resonate with LeFebre’s words. After all, didn’t the virus force a total stop to all our lives and, for the unlucky souls, a stop to their breaths? For the survivors, there remains much pain, the pain of grief, of losing livelihood, of not being able to reach out to loved ones, of loneliness.

Yet, the pandemic is just one among many disruptions in life. And when changes are present, some people may just want to rush back to the old normality, while others see that a new way of living and working together is possible. For tragic events like Covid can often be the catalyst to bring people together and possibilities emerge. Just like how LeFebre ends his poem:

“And together in this sudden strangeness,
radical imagination will run wild;
tomorrow being built today.”
​A group of 90 people gathered in Vietnam from 17-20, 2022 to learn together and co-create that tomorrow at the Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Matter training. The Art of Hosting, also called the Art of Participatory Leadership, offers simple yet powerful practices and processes that enable us to listen deeply to each other and take wise action to meet our challenges. In the 2022 training we explored the question:

How can we connect with our collective potential to navigate work and life
in this sudden strangeness?


We believe that when people come together in a meaningful conversation then the collective mind is greater than the sum of its parts. Such is a space where creativity flows and magic happens, where no problem seems too big, no challenge insurmountable. More than ever we need each other to move forward. And it  was a very special experience to explore together an emerging future where all lives can flourish.

​A 3-day training on participatory leadership methods​

This 3-day residential training offers simple and powerful participatory practices, patterns and processes to harness the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size
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Join us in this journey

If you want to explore an emerging future where all lives can flourish

Deepen your insight 

into participatory leadership and working with emergence and complexity. 

Learn ways to create and hold spaces 

where people are invited to unlock their full potential and make valuable contributions.

Practice a set of simple yet powerful approaches

for designing and hosting (facilitating) powerful conversations, engagement processes and meetings.

Learn and experience practices and tools for collaboration

tool such as Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space, Collective Story Harvesting, Circle Practice and Designing for Wiser Action. We will also learn about practices, concepts and methodologies such as next stage or ‘Teal’ organizations, Theory U and more.

Discover the Art of Harvesting

visually capturing and making sense of meetings and conversations for clarity, learning, growth and wise action.

Some photos from past trainings

Organizing & Communication partners

Global Art of Hosting Community
Knowmads Hanoi

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn”

THIS IS OUR INVITATION FOR YOU TO BE INVOLVED

Contact us

As Art of Hosting is not only about how to work together, but also about art of conversations and art of living, we are always ready to share our stories and listen to yours.
Email: info@artofhosting.vn
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Kindly,
Huan, Trang, Lannah, Dzung, Linh, Tam, Hao, Mel and Narayan