This page is an overview of facilitation and hosting techniques practiced at FoAM for over a decade.

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
• Fishbowl conversations
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_%28conversation%29
• A whole set of methods for knowledge sharing
  • http://www.kstoolkit.org/KS+Methods
• 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