This page is an overview of facilitation and hosting techniques used at FoAM over the years. With thanks to Maggie Buxton, Simone Poutnik, Hendrik Tiessinga (and others from The Art of Hosting community), Nick Payne, Ineke Van Mulders, Edel Maex, Christina Stadlbauer, Helga Hartl and many others who have facilitated workshops, held trainings and retreats through which we experienced the practice and the craft of hosting and facilitation.

• What questions to ask?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18675626/Art-of-Powerful-Questions

• Overview of 'art of hosting' facilitation methods (world cafe, open space technology, appreciative enquiry…)

http://www.artofhosting.org/what-is-aoh/methods/

• Proaction Cafe

https://sites.google.com/a/pro-action.eu/pro-action-caf-/how-to-become-a-host/hosting-kit

• Graphic Harvesting

http://www.slideshare.net/IDEAIreland/idea-graphic-harvesting-training-2010

• U Process / Presencing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-procedure_and_Theory_U http://www.presencing.com/tools/u-browser http://ottoscharmer.com/tools/toolbook.shtml

• Coaching (pocket guide):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tao-Coaching-Effectiveness-Inspiring-Developing/dp/186197650X

• Design Thinking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking

• Permaculture principles

http://permacultureprinciples.com/

• Mindfulness techniques

http://www.the-guided-meditation-site.com/mindfulness-exercises.html http://levenindemaalstroom.drupalgardens.com/ http://www.mindfulnesscds.com/author.html

• Lego Serious Play (a bit too proprietary for my taste):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Serious_Play

• Dragon dreaming

http://dragondreaming.org/en/12-steps/

• Naikan

http://www.todoinstitute.org/naikan3.html

• Chaordic Design

http://www.innervention.nl/page21/page21.html

• A few experiments that we at FoAM scavenged and adapted from various methods:

• A series of exercises for a research course at KABK lasting 6 weeks:

http://lib.fo.am/parn/vegetal_culture_degustation

• FoAM's experimental methodology to create embodied future scenarios:

http://lib.fo.am/resilients/prehearsal_pocket_guide

• Luminous Green workshops and retreats (the pages include briefings, questions, framings, harvesting etc.):

http://lib.fo.am/luminous/retreat_2010 http://lib.fo.am/luminous/workshop_2008 http://lib.fo.am/luminous/workshops2007