Upon returning from the three-day Art of Hosting Workshop in Geetbets, Belgium, I captured my version of the collective sense-making session at the end of the last day. It is a session where the participants who feel like it, pick up…
The AoH (Art of Hosting) three-day Seminar was also special because it involved two experiments. The hosting team was supported by a cooking team, all volunteers who wanted to contribute to the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter through preparing…
At the Art of Hosting workshop in Geetbets, Belgium, I was asked to provide the poetic harvesting of the very first Check In Round where about 60 people participated. This was my first Check In "coverage" and so I took abundant…
This poem started one early morning when I woke up with the line "There is silence". I made it a trilingual poem. I also attempted a drawing and a video-poem! There is a silence to music That brings my…
For the participants to the training "Personal Effectiveness and Time Management" in Tallinn, Estonia, I wrote the poem "Finding Balance" that captures the essence of the first day training. I read the poem as an introduction to the second day.…
I participated to a workshop relating to collective intelligence at the University of Santa Cruz, California, in August 2015. Pretty quickly during the workshop, I was inspired to write a poem that I was invited to share with the group at…
"Touching the Relational Edge - Bodypsychotherapy", by Dr Asaf Rolef Ben Shahar, a leading clinician and writer in the field of relational body psychotherapy,approaches body psychotherapy through historical, theoretical and clinical perspectives. It introduces body psychotherapy to psychologists, psychotherapists, and…
As a challenge to myself, I decided to write a poem in anticipation of a workshop entitled "And the Fire and the Rose". I sent the poem a few days before the workshop started and got some beautiful responses. …
Poetry of Change The Navajo have songs to recover lost souls. I have poems. When I write poems, I am the magician of my life and of the world around me. I uncover deeper meanings and I resonate with the…