Image artist: Olly Costello Keep Practicing Small Art of Hosting Training Berlin 4-6 June 2026 Join our Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations 3 DAYS TRAINING in Berlin, June 4-6! Art of Hosting Training in Berlin June 4-6 2026 This is a call to Relational Responsibility Who do we have to become now, given where we are right now? What monster still lives in you? Colonialism. Racism. Capitalism. Patriarchy. Ableism. Extractivism.… we inhabit MODERNITY. What do we do to create more just systems? Arriving from many different worlds to step into dark and difficult fertile conversations. Imaginal cells: The butterfly’s cells take over with the complete trust that it can transform. Let’s attack ourselves: Dancing, loving, transforming our monsters We’re here to practice regenerative dialogue, excavate different ways of knowing, take a shared space beyond [white] guilt, wander an inside-outside leadership path: This is a call to relational responsibility. We are bound to practices of the possible visions of the possible celebrations of the deeper dark and the love and silence between us. How can we enable our inner cracks to nurture societal transformation? The deeper calling for this training Modernity was born from rupture. Its root causes lie in a profound separation: the disconnection from land as a living presence, the fragmentation of the body as a site of knowledge and meaning, and the severing of relational ways of being in the world. What emerged from this break was a worldview structured around division — mind over body, human over nature, reason over emotion, white over non-white, man over woman. This logic of separation generated dualistic and hierarchical systems that naturalized supremacy and domination. The modern Western project consolidated itself through a will to control: to classify, extract, conquer, and govern. Land became property. Bodies became labor. Difference became hierarchy. From this epistemic and spiritual fracture grew the structures that continue to shape our global order: patriarchy, racial capitalism, colonial governance, and institutional systems designed to maintain power-over rather than power-with. International frameworks, state institutions, economic models, and even intimate relational practices still carry the imprint of this foundational fragmentation. This legacy has left deep and enduring trauma — economic, social, psychological, and spiritual. Ancestral victims and perpetrators alike remain entangled in ways of being and doing that continue to inflict harm on people, communities, and the planet. And yet, there is/are another voices within us. A voice that longs for connection, dignity, justice, and wholeness. A voice that carries visions of a world possible — of healing and reparation, of relationships restored within ourselves, between peoples, and with the more-than-human world. So how do we get there? How do we learn to speak and listen together in ways that move beyond defensiveness, beyond the clouds of pain, anger, and silence, and beyond performative responses & moral posturing that leave underlying patterns untouched? How do we step into conversations that can hold complexity — and open a field beyond right and wrong? How do we begin to reckon with the poly-layered inheritance we live within, without reproducing the very dynamics we seek to transform? If healing and transformation are to be possible, we must learn new skills — and perhaps more importantly, new ways of being. Ways of relating to ourselves, to one another, and to the wider, more-than-human world, that are rooted in listening, responsibility, and care. The Art of Hosting & Harvesting Meaningful Conversations offers one such suite of practices. Not as a total solution, but as a living practice: a way of creating spaces where, multiple/many truths can be spoken, where differences can be held, and where collective intelligence can begin to surface. Practices that help us listen across histories and lived experiences, bring what has been fragmented back into relationship, and take small — and sometimes bold — steps toward more just and life-affirming ways of living. How do we listen to the cracks within us—our pain, grief, and inner monsters—as sources of learning? How do we carry that inner learning into courageous conversations and wise collective action to transform the world we inhabit? What is the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations? The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and co-creation of collective intelligence to address complex challenges. The Pedagogy of the training: We will introduce mental models and theory on complexity and practice collective leadership through inviting participants to step into hosting and harvesting during the training. You are invited to bring your ideas, projects and challenges to work on, co-create with others and find ways to apply the learning in your own contexts after the training. We are hosting a participatory learning and practicing spaces for meeting people and to learn from their stories and experiences. We will dive into new forms of leadership, based on Living Systems, where interconnection, collaboration and self-organising around purpose can lead to collective wellbeing. This training is for you, if you are Looking for new ways of working and leading to engage with the challenges and potentials of our times Working in a complex environment where collaboration beyond existing paradigms is needed Following a call that you are not completely clear about you wish to work on Ready and curious to explore your work, your community or your personal environment through the lens of “care and kinship” Wanting to deepen into practices of collective inquiry and collaboration to apply in your contexts Wanting to foster engagement and participation in initiatives and activities you are cultivating Wishing to learn new ways to facilitate meaningful conversations Wish to become part of a growing network of change practitioners in Berlin We invite you! Community leaders and organisers Social entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs Decision-makers and project managers NGO and development workers Artists, activists & social designers Facilitators, coaches and consultants Corporate innovators Convenors of cross-sector dialogues Policy makers and managers within municipalities Teachers, trainers and life-long learners AoH Training AoH Training Photo credit: Alexis Papageorgiou PRACTICAL INFORMATION When and where? Dates Thursday, 4.06.2026 – 10:00-17:00 (17.30-19.30: coaching participants who want to co-host sessions on day 2 – as part of the AoH learning pedagogy) Friday, 5.06.2026 – 9:00-17:00 (17.30-19.30: coaching participants who want to co-host sessions on day 2 – as part of the AoH learning pedagogy) Saturday, 06.06.2026. – 9:00-17:00 Language The training will be held in English. Location Hotel Continental – Art Space in Exile Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin What are the costs? Private Sector / Corporate 1100 EUR (eg. business, consultant, foundations) Public Sector / NGOs 900 EUR (eg. public institutions, larger NGOs) Individual / Small non-profits 650 EUR (eg. entrepreneurs, association,) Access rate 400 EUR (eg. students, unemployed) Early Bird discount of 50€ for the first 13 registrations!! Private Sector / Corporate 1050 EUR (eg. business, consultant, foundations) Public Sector / NGOs 850 EUR (eg. public institutions, larger NGOs) Individual / Small non-profits 600 EUR (eg. entrepreneurs, associations,) Access rate 400 EUR What the fee includes: We care a lot about making the Art of Hosting training as inclusive and accessible as possible and hence offer four different tiers. Your participation fee contributes to covering the essential costs of the training, including: catering (coffee breaks and lunches) materials venue rental administration travel and accommodation for the hosting team basic facilitation fees for the hosting team Choosing one of the higher tiers helps us offer reduced rates to participants with fewer financial resources and supports a more sustainable remuneration for the hosting team. If you are joining through an organisation with a training budget or have the possibility to contribute more, we warmly encourage you to select one of the higher tiers to help make the training accessible to people from diverse economic backgrounds. We operate in an economy of trust. We trust you to make a wise choice based on what is possible and realistic for you and taking into consideration the value of the offering and all the work that has gone in. If the available contribution tiers are still beyond your financial possibilities, you are welcome to indicate in the registration form that you would like to participate through Dakshina. Dakshina is a Sanskrit word meaning offering or gift. It reflects a practice of reciprocity and the living cycle of giving and receiving that sustains collective learning spaces. Rather than a one-directional scholarship, Dakshina invites each participant to contribute what they are genuinely able to offer. If the listed tiers are not accessible to you, please let us know what contribution would be possible in your circumstances. We will do our best to welcome a limited number of participants through Dakshina, depending on the overall financial balance of the training. In this process, we remain attentive to the structural realities that shape access to such spaces. Priority will be given to people who might otherwise face systemic barriers due to factors such as race, class, migration status, dis/ability, or other intersecting conditions. * The training fee covers: participation in the three-day training, materials, a workbook, vegetarian/ vegan lunches, and coffee breaks. Please note that the training fee does not include accommodation. Fill in this form to Register!!