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Spaces for Social Innovation

simone — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:58:57 +0000

Since 2006 we are actively supporting the Hub Brussels, Hub London, Hub World and other start-up Hubs in Europe and around the world as advisers, community builders, hosts, facilitators of co-creative meetings, strategists, co-founders and members.

The Hub is a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world. It is a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at ‘new frontiers’ to tackle the world’s most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges.

The Hub believes that there is no absence of good ideas in the world. The problem is a crisis of access, scale, resources and impact. It felt vital to create places around the world for accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment. There are currently over 20 Hubs on 4 continents and 50 more in the making.

E-campaigning forum 2009

simone — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:27:40 +0000

March 2009

The E-campaigning forum is a global network of (and for) practitioners of campaigning / advocacy using a growing range of electronic / digital media, initiated by Fairsay. Together with Sophia Bustamante we facilitated this year’s 6th edition. Using open space and twitter we created a thriving peer learning environment for e-campaigners from around the world.

Key note speakers included Sam Graham-Felson, Chief Blogger and Director of Blog Outreach for the Obama Campaign, who gave us an insider view and illustrated what an important role story telling, creating opportunities for participation online and offline have played. From the open space sessions we learned that campaigning is also becoming more and more about community building and participation.

Art of Hosting trainings

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:43:48 +0000

Since 2006 we have been calling and co-hosting trainings on the Art of Hosting (AoH) meaningful conversations in Germany, Belgium and the UK.

The Art of Hosting is about engaging the collective intelligence of diverse groups through dialogue that leads to wise solutions and actions for the future.

It is a living pattern, a network of practitioners, as well as a training experience for deepening competency and confidence in hosting group processes in Circle, World Café, Open Space and other forms, that support groups to go from strategic conversations to wise action and systemic change.

It is a response to a world that is becoming increasingly complex and fragmented, where true solutions and innovation lie not in one leader or one viewpoint, but in the bigger picture of our collective intelligence, in the wisdom between us.

To read more about the AoH www.artofhosting.org