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The Hosts Index Cards
Maja
Element
- Fire, Water
Goddess/Totem
- Kali
Interests
- Contemplative practices (meditation, including rituals)
- Futuring
- Pantheistic, non-anthropocentric processes
- Total experiences
Skills
- Design
- Research
- Framing
- Keeping overview (big picture)
- Summarizing
- Harvesting
- Multilingual hosting (4/5 languages)
- Public speaking
- Mentoring
- Writing
- Hands on: working with food and audiovisual media
Experience
- Concept and programme development
- Short & long processes (all aspects, different group sizes, hands-on and discussions, co-creation…)
- Transdisciplinary, transsectorial and intercultural design
- Experience and transmedia design
- Meditation
- Sectors: arts, science, engineering, policy, business, environment, medical, communities
Sectors
- Cross-sectorial
- Cross-generational
- Cross-cultural
Nightmares
- Homogeneous unmotivated groups who take much for granted and give nothing (vampires)
Dreams
- Transformational, long-term relationships and life-changing experiences (from one person to the whole world)
Stevie
Element/Goddess/Totem
- Sound
Interests
- Commercial sector
- Patronage
Skills
- ‘Composing’
- Improvisation
- Tuning in and making the best of people
- Teaching
Experience
- Cross-sector bridging
- Broadcasting
- Presentation/performance
- Teaching/mentoring
Sectors
Nightmares
Noise pollution
Dreams
Make music matter
Eva DG
Element/Goddess/Totem
Interests
- Personal growth
- Healing
- Walking/nature
- Meditation
- Rituals
- Ecology
- New systems
- Holistic approaches
- Serendipity
Skills
- Facilitation/ hosting
- Coaching
- Project management
- Communication
- Social design
- Writing
- Humor
Experience
- Creative writing
- Hosting
- Curating
- P2P
- Facilitation
Sectors
- Arts
- Maker culture
- Transition Movement
- Cross-sectoral = interesting
Nightmares
ActionReaction without bigger picture or compassion
Dreams
Collaboration and connection
Eva P
Element
Water
Goddess/Totem
Cerridwen
Interests
- Sustainability & transition/change
- Crafts & self-sufficiency
- Nature-based spirituality (animism)
- Things esoteric (sacred geometry, tarot, dreams, healing, …)
- Structuring knowledge
- Plants & trees, wild foraging
- Plant lore & symbolism, mythology
- Ancestorial history of Western Europe (Celts, Germanic culture) and ancient history in general
- Music
- Intuition & instinct
- Helping people to reconnect to the power/strength within
- Coaching
Skills
- Language & communication (finding words; translating complex matter into comprehensive words)
- Symbolical interpretation (the story behind people’s lives and experiences) & reading nature
- Helicopter view
- Connecting, inspiring & reassuring people
- Creative thinking
- The ability to put things into perspective and to make fun of yourself (zelfrelativering)
- Vulnerability (in one-to-one conversations)
- Making sustainable choices & looking for sustainable options
Experience
- Communication: writing short/to-the-point texts, blogging, facebook
- Druid rituals
- Writing/making a book, a calendar/holiday booklet (Nieuwsblad)
- Structuring information (artist database BAM/Kunstenpunt)
- Editing (correcting)
Sectors
- Profit
- Pioneering groups
- Open-hearted, sensitive people who see the magic in small things
Nightmares
- Facilitating loud, over-critical people who cannot hear the heart speaking
- Unrealistic expectations and a heavy responsibility on my shoulders
- Cynical, destructive companies/people
- Disconnection and a feeling of abandonedness
Dreams
- Working towards a society/community where everyone remembers their ‘connection’ (to nature, to the cosmos/the spirit, …) and we act from that connection
- Sharing and offering ideas and watch or help them grow
- A healed earth
Rasa
Element/Goddess/Totem
Interests
- Interested in everything that grows (bacteria, kids, trees, …)
- Time-related thins
- Alternative methods
Skills
- Generating energy
- Cooking
- Surprise elements
- Opening people up
- Hands-on, bodily kind of things
- Assisting
- Supporting
- Hosting
- Photographical documentation
- Mentoring
Experience
- Dance
- Choreography
- Guiding and designing workshops
- Teaching
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Mentoring
- Hunting for loose ends
Sectors
Nightmares
Dreams
- Small steps with small groups
- Long-term relationships
- Activities that matter
Kathleen
Element/Goddess/Totem
Earth/fire
Interests
- Transition (processes) > micro>macro
- Bodywork/healing
- Spirituality
- Social entrepreneurship
- Peer learning
- Systemic (change
Skills
- Facilitating
- Empowering
- Listening > summarizing
- Connecting
- Cooking
- Humor
Experience
- Levuur/art of hosting: participatory processes
- Sociale innavtiefabriek: coaching entrepreneurs, designing workshops, facilitating peer learning
- Vooruit: ‘team’work, initiating chang process
- Personal growth: burn out, resigning
- Life changing courses: matrix, Joanna Macy, Theory U, bodywork
Sectors
Nightmares
Superficially going through the motion
Dreams
Deep impact
Barbara
Element
Air/Fire
Goddess/Totem
Snake (metamorphosis, transformation, healing of others)
Interests
- (social) rituals
- Non-acknowledged loss
- Healing
- Funerals & Artistic practice
- Soul midwifery
- Transition & Sustainable practices
- Storytelling
- Spirituality
- Constellations
- Personal Growth
Skills
- Imagination
- Design
- Research
- Holding the space
- Writing
- Listening
- Hosting & Connecting people
Experience
- Curating/making programs
- Moderating
- Creating new rituals
- Teaching
- Workshops for kids
Sectors
- Everywhere progressive people with green mind & heart are looking for alternatives
- Education/arts
- Hospitals ⇒ social sector & caretakers
Nightmares
Burn-out
Dreams
Small drops changing the form of the rock
Luea
Element
Earth / Water
Totem
Dolphin
Goddess
Isis
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Vali
Element / Goddess / Interests
People . Design . Innovation
Skills
- Inspire people to Think differently
- Ignite action in teams to Work together to
- Create positive Impact and growth
Experience
- Cross-sector, Cross-country, cross-professional and generational cultures
- Working in Europe, USA, Africa and Asia
- Programme Design and Coaching
- Executive and Team Coaching
- Certified Geek, including PhD, patents and innovations
- Versed in business language, including MBA
- Teaching Computer Science, in Africa and Europe
- Teaching Leadership . Design . Innovation in business schools
Sectors
- Business, NGO and Cultural sectors
- Engineering, Science, Pharmaceutical, Art, Media
Dreams
- Make Ideas Happen
- The Innovation Consultancy
Nightmares
Nik
Element
God/Totem
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Michka
Element
- Earth, fire
Totem
- Mountain bear
Interests
- Breathtaking landscapes
- Inspiring stories
- Alternating enthusiasm-driven frenzy and slow quietness
- Simple mind-shifting concepts and theories
- Fireside chats about life and related topics
- Making my heart beat through hiking or biking
- Organizations emancipating their members
- Challenging my mental models
- Growing and/or making stuff
- (Herbal) tea
- Saucisson & cheese
Skills
- Performing scientific experiments
- Reading scientific literature
- Getting inspired by nature, and helping other people do so
- Building up simple prototypes
- Fitting in many different contexts
- Bringing exo-insights to given contexts
- Working as a scientist with designers and artists
Experience
- (Action) Research
- Cross-discipline co-creation
- Boring Microsoft-Office-based tasks
- Facilitation
- Designers-scientists collaboration
- Science for artists
- A little bit of futurology (GBN/2×2)
- All of the above
Sectors
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Citizen science & technology
- (Bio-)design
- (Bio-)art
Nightmares
- Violence bursts rooting in misunderstanding, mean stupidity and absence of curiosity
- Banality of evil
- Collapse
- War
Dreams
- Thriving abundance and diversity
- Dynamic equilibrium
- Perfect matches
- Unexpected happy-ending non-linearities
- (More facilitation)
Alkan
Element
God/Totem
Interests
Skills
Experience
Sectors
Dreams
Nightmares
Lies
Element
Earth
Goddess/Totem
Turtle (slow but steady, seemingly from another era observing the world)
Interests
- language (form and content)
- philosophy, sociology
- yoga
Skills
- observing
- conversing
- writing
- drawing
- sleeping
Experience
- editing, translating, writing
- organizing
- facilitating group assessment
- mothering
- living
Sectors
- the arts
- education
- real life
Dreams
- to live in the gift, to believe in abundance
Nightmares
- to be stuck in a place (cf. U Turn by Oliver Stone)