This community group understands “hosting” as a certain way of facilitation that is supposed to have the capacity of making emerge the collective intelligence that people possess.
As an approach to facilitation, The Art of Hosting is focused on “improved, conscious, and kind ways of growing a capacity to support a deliberate wisdom, unique to being together,”[2] and also relies on a specific attitude to process organization.
The practitioners see this methodology of engagement as a way to bring people in complex, social systems into convergence on collective actions, with the participants discovering and proposing their own solutions.
[4] Starting around the late 1990s,[5][6] or early 2000s,[2] the community shares methods, tools, and terminology to improve how people can understand and mobilize to respond to complex social, political, and economic change in a participatory manner.
There is no central institution deciding what belongs to the canon – it emerges from what the community uses and evolves through a process of informal peer review that focuses upon application.