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HOST LEADERSHIP | AGILITY
Leading like a host wearing six hats
Revisiting Host Leadership and its Six Accountabilities
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There is no end to this. I have been hosting hundreds of workshops and writing at least as many articles and columns on Leading Like a Host, the Art of Hosting (and Harvesting Conversations that Matter), Invisible Facilitation, and Host Leadership — and each time in the dialogue with participants and readers I find a new and wonderful perspective that adds to the whole and I hadn’t been missing it until someone else pointed out it was there.
Take this, for instance. What my friend Mark McKergow, the indomitable space-creator for the Host Leadership community worldwide, calls “roles of engagement” — and I have consistently been calling “accountabilities.” Workshop participants keep coming up with a wide variety of other labels: embodiments, karmic practices, vehicles, cloaks, kebayas, scarves, hats — all suggesting a different type of deeper meaning and understanding, and ultimately, a different praxis.
