Art of Hosting – Diversity
During the Art of Hosting workshop that had as guiding question "What if it were up to us to embody a society where everyone and everything can thrive?", the topic of diversity was very much present. We also covered and…
Art of Hosting – What we learned
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…
Art of Hosting – World Café “Money”
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…
There is silence to music
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…
Collective Intelligence is…
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
"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…
The Fire and the Rose
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. …
Confusing roles at the workplace could cost you dearly
Balancing multiple roles within the same environment is delicate. Without proper precautions, you could be confronted to misunderstanding upon misunderstanding, to conflict and even to separation. I was working recently with a woman who had expressed difficulties finding her place…
Letting go of perfection
The strive for perfection enables us to develop our excellence and achieve many results. That is unless it is too conditioned to being loved, and then it can become a burden, a yoke. And then it becomes difficult to enjoy…
Step into your Life
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…