HOST LEADERSHIP GATHERING

What is the host leadership model and how can it be useful for my job? Let us explore together, how the movements, roles and positions of this model can make a difference for your daily business. After a short introduction of the model we will have discussions in small groups about the different aspects of applying the model. In which position do you currently spend most time? What difference would it make if you spend more time in a different position? In which role are you most comfortable?

This workshop should provide you with the basic knowledge of the host leadership model and serve a base for the other workshops.

You will immediately be able to apply the knowledge to your day-to-day challenges and step by step become a better leader!

Alexander A. Giurca

Miriam Sors

A workshop for those who find themselves in coaching situations, occasionally or repeatedly. Have you ever wondered how you could put the different roles and positions of Host Leadership to good use, during the coaching process? We asked ourselves the following questions and would like to invite you to a workshop highlighting the advantages of, and caveats while applying Host Leadership to coaching: May a coach be in the spotlight? Is gatekeeping an appropriate interaction in a solution-focused dialog? Could hosting even be harmful in a coaching process?

If questions like these puzzle you, you're warmly welcomed to join this interactive workshop. We'll prepare some descriptions of common situations that will challenge us all. You will have the opportunity to maybe reach out of your Host Leadership comfort zone (or performance zone!) and reflect on your existing approaches. And of course we will interact in groups, learning from each other.

Barbara Bucksch

Rolf F. Katzenberger

“Your first duty is to make yourself happy. If you are happy, you make others happy too.“ (Ludwig Feuerbach)

In my role as Scrum Master and Agile Coach, I am often acting as host in numerous meeting and workshop formats. I usually fill this role with a lot of enthusiasm and joy. However, some time ago, I noticed that there were formats in which I didn't really feel comfortable, despite careful preparation. I couldn't get involved with what was happening there and felt a barrier within myself. I was not able to establish a real connection to what was happening around me. In short, I couldn't be the host I wanted to be.

Perhaps you have felt the same way before. You were looking forward to "hosting" and bringing people together and in the end, despite careful planning, it didn't feel as good as you had hoped? Often in these situations we look for the reasons in the outside world or in the things we can directly influence. But what happens when we look inward? What if in these very situations, when we fail to be the best version of ourselves, we have lost our "Echtheit" (authenticity)and our behavior no longer matches our inner self?

In my lecture "Host yourself first" I would like to open exactly this view on the inside and show you what meaning your “Echtheit” (authenticity) has for your world outside. Using practical models and exercises, I would like to invite you to understand and reflect on your foundation of authenticity. This is about more than self-care and mindfulness. It is about getting clarity about your values and attitude and creating awareness of what is working unconsciously within you.

In addition to a lot of useful theory from the field of psychology, you will be given practical exercises and reflections so that you can be a host to yourself first, before you do it for others.

Julia Rupp

In March 2020, Leah, with neighbours, initiated the building of a neighbourhood community. The process - intuitive, slow, and small scale - has been unfolding over several years now. Taken by the flow of it, Leah found herself leading the transformation of the neighbourhood into a community.

Insights from host leading, appeared to be useful when making one small step after another and also, when looking into where we want to go. I need to explore further and amplify the benefits of combining knowledge and practices from Host Leadership and community development.

One way to go about this is to ask one or more of the neighbours about the community. How did it start for them? Who /was / is involved? What happened? Where? When? What did we do? How? I propose to host a 90-minute session in which we explore snippets of their narrated experience. We might then draw connections between the practices and ideas of Host Leadership and neighbouthood building and recognise the possibilities that occur when Host Leadership supports community development.

Leah Davcheva

There are beautiful and wonderful venues and locations for hosting people (communities, work groups, committees, teams, ...). There also pretty crappy ones. Sometimes you’ve got enough time to prepare and create a space, sometimes you don’t even have the opportunity to have a look at a location, up-front. This is a workshop for those who love to pay attention to creating space. Physically, and literally.

We’ll look at some effective rules of thumb that bring out the best of wonderful locations, and can also save the day when it’s 7 a.m. and you’re entering a location for the first time that looks, well, not-so-inviting, and hardly suitable for having conversations that matter.

Together, we’ll look at some challenging spatial environments and what we could do about them; at some wonderful places and what exactly makes them so great; and last, but not least, at “space challenges” that many of us have, and need to master.

Rolf F. Katzenberger

The separation of ‘thinking’ work from ‘doing’ work has been integral to management for over a century. This distinction is being challenged, most recently by David Marquet in his book ‘Turn The Ship Around’ where he catchily refers to these as Blue Work (thinking, innovating, changing) and Red Work (doing, implementing, producing). Marquet advises leaders to share the blue work around and involve more people in it.

And… as co-participating host leaders, might it work the other way around as well? What are the advantages of leaders doing Red Work occasionally? What might it mean? How can it work effectively? Explore how Blue and Red can make an attractive pattern for organisations and teams which are both humane AND effective in this interactive workshop.

Dr. Mark McKergow