<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thanks much for sharing Alan, seems that this book is the product of a large collaborative effort, which is awesome!<br><br><div>From my iPad</div></div><div><br>On 28/08/2013, at 23:52, Alan Stewart <<a href="mailto:alan@multimindsolutions.com">alan@multimindsolutions.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Dear friends in OS </span></font><br><span class=""></span></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>
</span></font></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">You may find this cross posting from the AoH listserv of interest and of value for your purposes. <br>
<br>For those not familiar with the <a href="http://www.artofhosting.org/home/" target="_blank">Art of Hosting</a> (AoH) a peruse of the website and of this <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/155523" target="_blank">e-book of the University of Minnesota</a> will likely enhance your perspective of how OST is used constructively in concert with other conversational processes. <br>
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<font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Looking forward<br>
<br></span></font></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Go well<br><br></span></font></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Alan </span></font><br><br><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Alan
Stewart, PhD<br>Adelaide </span></span><br><br><br><div>
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<div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 August 2013 12:49, Jodi Sandfort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sandf002@umn.edu" target="_blank">sandf002@umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>All - We are so happy to be part of this international community to share our eBook. There is much that A of H can and is adding to higher education at this critical time in its development. <br>
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We hope the ebook can help others "make the case" and inspire more of us to harvest our practice stories in public ways with each other! <br><br></div>Jodi Sandfort<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Jodi Sandfort<br>
Associate Professor and Chair<br>Leadership & Management Area<div>Humphrey School of Public Affairs<br>University of Minnesota<br>301 19th Avenue South<br>Minneapolis, MN 55108<br>(612)625-3536</div><div><div>
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Alan Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@multimindsolutions.com" target="_blank">alan@multimindsolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 22 August 2013 13:01, Jen Mein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jen@umn.edu" target="_blank">jen@umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Greetings, </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On behalf of my colleagues at the University of Minnesota, I would like to announce the publication of <i>Cultivating Change in the Academy: Practicing The Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter Within the University of Minnesota,</i></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> an</span><i style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </i><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">eBook and companion web site that highlights the experiences of UMN faculty, staff, and student Art of Hosting practitioners. Over the past six months, </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">25+ contributed as authors, editors, graphic designers, and technical supporters for this incredible collaborative project. </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">T</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">he stories showcase innovation and leadership within and across colleges, schools, departments, and classrooms. They offer insight into how unexpected and significant change unfolds. They inspire us to think about how slowing down at the right time to have focused conversations has the potential to change everything.</span></div>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The eBook can also be downloaded from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy as a PDF or in native formats for iPad, Nook, Kindle, and other eReaders. <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/155523" target="_blank">http://purl.umn.edu/155523</a></font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">You can also read, comment and share the stories via the companion website: <a href="https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/hostingconversations/" target="_blank">https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/hostingconversations/</a></font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We offer this as a harvest gift to the global AoH community. May it serve and support our collective work in the world. </p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:13px">Best wishes,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> Jen Mein</span><br></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>
---</div><div>Jen Mein</div><div>
Organizational Effectiveness Consultant</div>
<div>Office of Human Resources</div><div>University of Minnesota</div><div><a href="tel:612-625-8328" value="+16126258328" target="_blank">612-625-8328</a></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Hi Jen and All</span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">What a remarkable record you and your colleagues have composed on how
AoH practices are being introduced and used across the broad spectrum of
activities at your university. <br>
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I congratulate you in doing this and in making your materials available in such
a generous and inspiring way. </span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Your items arrived on the day that I was hosting what I call a <b>Conversing
Café</b> – World Café format underpinned by OST principles – on a project in
which academics and local government people are engaged collaboratively. This
was their first experience of interaction through conversing at small tables.
Participants included representatives from all three universities in Adelaide,
South Australia. </span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">At the end I invited the academics to consider
introducing conversational (from Latin <i>con versare – to turn or to dance
together</i>) processes into their diverse activities. (They seemingly quickly
grasped the distinction between this and ‘discussion’ with its roots in
‘percussion’!). I indicated that this could happen through my associates and I
offering ‘people skills to host meetings and conversations’ for both staff and
students. </span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">And so I see that your book and accompanying comments (both
comprehensive) will prove invaluable in any follow up. For now that I have your
material – have had the book printed – there is a great deal more ‘chapter and
verse’ with which to support such an initiative. </span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Incidentally
a social format which I have developed and called <b>Conversare</b> (see <a href="http://conversare.net/?page_id=250" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Introducing Conversare</span></a> and <a href="http://conversare.net/?p=1292" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Inspirations and Speculations</span></a>) could be a ‘wholesome’
way to introduce/ remind incoming first year (freshman) students that
face-to-face interaction with people they don’t know is the essence of
university experience. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">And that respectful,
nonjudgmental conversation is the <i>sine qua non</i> of the generation of
human warmth. </span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">To add: As Bob [Stilger] indicated<b> “</b>I've been using AoH in my grad school
teaching for a decade now. Always with predictable results. People
come alive. They are energized. They listen and they learn.”</span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Is this also a statement of ‘Whenever we treat each other well good
things happen?’ <br>
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Looking forward<br>
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Go well</span><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Alan </span><b><span style="font-size:24pt"></span></b></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Alan
Stewart, PhD<br>Adelaide <br></span><b><span style="font-size:24pt"></span></b></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">See my new e-booklet<a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=243" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue"> Time to converse – at the heart
of human warmth</span></a> available on Amazon</span></span><span></span></p>
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University of Minnesota<br>301 19th Avenue South<br>
Minneapolis, MN 55108<br>(612)625-3536</div>
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