My 3 day learning through an Art of Hosting training
In March 2008, I was at a 3 day training by the Belgian AoH community .
At the end of the training, when everyone thought it was the final moment of farewell, I stood up and presented to those present, my overview of three days of learning. This is that presentation.
I like to share it with you as I did with those present at that moment. Because if you are somewhat like me.. always curious, yet a little reserved when it comes to new age elements, somewhat symbolical gatherings and celebration of community.. well, you have to read this further. I also view theories as exercises for the mind, not as initiation to wisdom.. I put questions marks behind every belief that is not been “lived” by the person expressing that belief.
In my professional life, I’m in HR, and I’m not a trainer, nor a guru. So please, accept this as the framework wherein I started my 3 day evolution . Feel free to comment.
I can assure you : since march 2008 I’ve put a lot of question marks behind my old beliefs.
| Day | Me myself as starting point | About “my” space here | My dialogue | My conclusion for the next day |
Day0 | I’m 60 yrs old now. Yet, I still want to learn, to find my no end, the meaning of my still being | I’m just coming to this as a scout..with caution and reserve | AoH is not the environment I am in real life, it is artificial, so this is just a quest to satisfy my curiosity, and to meet some friends who draw my attention to this event | |
| Day 1 | This is a quite unique setting: in a park, people coming from everywhere in Europe, a mix of trainers, students, believers and prospectors like me | This space is too spacious: chaos is not my thing | I do not feel at home here.; this is not well structured, I do not get the whole overviewed | I’m not alone is these feelings. Just staying here, is maybe no cure for anything, but at least, here I can be who I am |
| Day 2 | Continuing to see AoH as an artificial environment is creating myself a barrier to my learning, the learning I was prospecting for | This new space to me can be one actively used by me also | How can I use in my way of being the power and the energy behind the technique and the symbolism in“irimi” (opening in aikido) . This is about taking in and using the energy present in my everyday environment | My wicked questions will lead me to what I really want |
| Day 3 a.m . | I can not not –breathe. | All space is available to act, so why not act? It is even a comfort to have so much space. This huge space becomes a real discomfort when I do not see and feel that in that huge space, there is always a place with a ticket for me. An dit is only by acting that I can tap and find the boost of the energy in it. | Speaking to others is also to be meant to hear and understand them . We are all our lives like fishes in a bowl, so do not worry about the water of life. | There is no chaos, it is always about change. Do not feel limited, unless you want to be limited. Rethink my earlier thoughts about my ways to learn. |
| Day 3 p.m. | We all can act in this space.. this has room and a place for all of us. | Complexity needs simplicity. I can bring in and be this simplicity. | My nest call .. is/was present | I know for now: do not bother thinking to be copying myself...more than ever, I know I ‘m in evolution, and aware that each experience with change has teached me something, and continues teaching me |
