Tell us your definition of hosting
If you’ve hosted a Conversation Cafe in the past, or a salon or a dialogue or a Socrates Cafe, help us tell others what the hosting experience is like. Here’s some ways I’ve described it:
A host is curious about what others think, has the courage to ask and the humility to listen.
A host makes community through making safe spaces for conversation.
Over at http://victoriaroserobin.blogspot.com I wrote a longer essay about hosting where I said:
I host conversations - at cafes, in my home, with strangers - because it’s who I am, not what I do. I can’t help it. I am always hosting. I am always inviting others to make meaning with me. I am always asking questions and listening to the answers, always wondering what others think and feel.
Now you. What is hosting to you? What does a host do? Not do? Say? Not say? Feel? Help others imagine what it would be like to host.