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Art of Hosting Workshop – Check In
At the Art of Hosting workshop in Geetbets, Belgium, I was asked to provide the poetic harvesting of the very first Check In Round where about 60 people participated. This was my first Check In...
View ArticleArt of Hosting – World Café “Money”
The AoH (Art of Hosting) three-day Seminar was also special because it involved two experiments. The hosting team was supported by a cooking team, all volunteers who wanted to contribute to the Art of...
View ArticleArt of Hosting – What we learned
Upon returning from the three-day Art of Hosting Workshop in Geetbets, Belgium, I captured my version of the collective sense-making session at the end of the last day. It is a session where the...
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Art of Hosting – Diversity
During the Art of Hosting workshop that had as guiding question “What if it were up to us to embody a society where everyone and everything can thrive?”, the topic of diversity was very much present....
View ArticleSpeed Reading Training
Since many years, I have had the pleasure of teaching speed reading techniques to multicultural groups of professionals. Regularly, my participants are interpreters who must be able to read large...
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We shall stand for love – the poems and other artwork
This poem resonates with many and has been translated in more than 50 languages by people who wanted to express their solidarity and love and who wanted to see the poem reach as many people as...
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The wisdom of nature
We facilitated a series of workshops for the Brussels office of an international NGO that promotes sustainable development and the protection of the world’s resources. At the start of the first...
View ArticleYou can hide
The poem below was inspired by conversations during a two-day workshop relating to Corporate Rituals. You can hide under the cloak In the midddle of the night For fear of what you cannot see Or bear to...
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Sacred Spaces
This poem has mutliple inspirations: a two-day Team Retreat for a small organisation that is looking to enhance the quality of communication and interaction between its members; a two-day Workshop...
View ArticleMore about the Flow – The Extra Mile
A year that ends or begins is a time for reflection, for reviewing past learnings and for intending the path of the 12 months to come. At the Extra Mile, it was not different, with a World Café Session...
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Days at the Hoffice
Hoffice is a great concept of work. We are using resources underused during the day: our homes! And as we use methods of structuring the day, we are both being very productive and connecting...
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Who is my neighbour?
“Just over a week ago, in fact the day before the referendum, thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square. We had come to remember someone whose life and practical vision did seem worth holding...
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Culturally Proficient Leadership
Out of the blue, I receive a mail requesting permission to publish my poem ‘The Art of Hosting Diversity’ (or Dancing on the Edge) in the second edition of ‘Culturally Proficient Leadership: The...
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My Box
This poem was inspired by a couple of comments made by friends while making or discussing music. In my boxIn my boxI make musicAll day longIn my boxYou don’t see meYou don’t hear meIn my boxAll day...
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Keep Rolling on
Inspiration comes from anywhere and may lead anywhere else!This song was triggered by the cat we had recently adopted running through the open window. The basic text and musical line of the song were...
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Flesh, Blood Love
Poetry for the Living – Gifts for the Spirits 67 poems arranged in three parts: Soham (about the “I”, us as separate individuals), Namaste (about the relationship of an “I” to a “you”), Ubuntu (about...
View ArticleGood morning
A tip for having great days: imagine the positive scenario of the best day you can have, imagine the sensations, the emotions, the energy, the resilience and the balance between activity and rest,...
View ArticleI want to say this to you
Written during the quarantine of 2020, the poem should be said with an upbeat tempo, uplifting tone. I want to say this to you To say that you are strong I know that this is true You’re the sing and...
View ArticleIf I were a virus
Si j'étais un virus Si j’étais un virusJe mettrais du soleil sur ton frontMême les jours sombresTu nous contaminerais Si jétais un virusJe mettrais la confiance dans ton coeurQue tu te sentes...
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How One Poem Changed Me.
Calligraphy of the poem "For Love" by Samir Malik On Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016, at 9:11 a.m., a bomb explodes in a Brussels metro station. A good friend of mine, Johan, goes missing. The ripples of...
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