The art of staying grounded while responding to the urgency of the current need for meaningful and effective online engagement …

As we find ourselves adapting to a new reality, finding alternative ways to socialize, do our work, and stay in contact with loved ones near and far, many of us are going beyond the initial panic to find solutions, fast, and starting to realize the incredible potential of working online.

How we meet and host each other online is more important now than ever, whether the groups we are hosting are large or small. It can be a deeply meaningful experience or it can be very frustrating. This intensive is designed to minimize the frustration and maximize the value of our online engagements.

Our Invitation to you,

We invite you to join us for an important reminder that the solutions are not only in the technologies we chose, but in us as hosts. It’s we who discern what is most needed and helpful, and from that place, design engagements that use the gifts of technology without being distracted or led by the overwhelming need to move everything online as quickly as possible.

We invite you to learn with us and a global community of peers, as we strengthen our shared knowledge and build the capacity to make our online engagements truly meaningful.

One-Week Deep Dive

During this week-long intensive workshop, we will offer six real-time sessions – two a day for three days – to share the most important things we have learned at Beehive over the last five years. In between these real-time sessions we will provide additional resources to support you in diving deep into your own hosting practice and bringing your skills online.

Each day we will offer two sessions: one easily accessible for the Americas/European time zones and another easily accessible for the Americas & Australasia (next day).

Don’t worry if you can’t make them all – we will make video, audio, and visual recordings of each one readily available.

Tuition: 425 $USD

This intensive training in designing and hosting online engagement includes:

• Six real-time two-hour online sessions
• Video, Audio & Visual Recordings from all sessions
• A Practice Guide for reference when you need a quick review
• Additional resources and an overview of where to find what for hosting successful online processes
• Ongoing community calls to support your practice
• BONUS material including interviews and relevant perspectives from the emerging field of practice

We offer teams and groups of 3 or more 30% discount.

Our Perspective

Having played a key role in developing the field of online engagement, Beehive Productions utilizes first-hand experience & a rigorous practice of preparing, inviting, hosting both process and technology, and creating intimacy, beauty, and collective meaning online. Now, we are finding ourselves in the middle of a paradox.

Given the widespread cancellation of onsite events and physical distancing mandates, there is clearly an urgent and immediate need to learn how to host online NOW. At the same, we know that online hosting, like any good hosting practice, requires thoughtful preparation and needs to be done from a grounded and centered place.

We all know that hosting should not be done alone, and that is even more important when working online. For these reasons we will be sharing some of the most important things you need to know about hosting the process, preparation, and technology for successful online engagement, and pointing you to more resources for further help.

Our Themes

HOSTING ENGAGING ONLINE SPACES

Moving from onsite to online – what’s most important to know? What do you carry over and what do you change and adapt? Bringing the ground of our own hosting practice alive in the virtual sphere.

13-14 April

CREATING THE CONDITIONS

Creating containers infused by beauty and the spaciousness and care needed to support human connection. The imperative to design for need and purpose guides our choices for technology and infrastructure.

15-16 April

SENSE-MAKING IN THE DIGITAL REALM

Making sense together online, using new technology to create “just enough” clarity to move forward in these uncertain times. The power of visuals to support shared learning and online collaboration.

17-18 APRIL

“Moving from the often frantic panic of bringing everything online immediately to connecting with your own grounded response, based on an understanding of what is needed now.”

Your Hosting Team

Rowan Simonsen

Rowan is guided by the question of how to live a simple, beautiful life with impact, asking the questions that really matter?
He is the co-founder of Beehive Productions, a Kaospilot and long time practitioner of the Art of Hosting.