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Hosting Artful Initiation
(Host Leadership Practices, Explored)
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In the framework commonly known as Host Leadership, six action nouns live in the ensemble of a Host Leader’s daily practice.
ubiquitous initiation
unconditional invitation
generous space-creation
selfless protection
unbounded connection
meaningful participation
Host Leadership has been one of the main topics in my work for a few years now. It started with the enigmatic true leadership suddenly appearing in The Scrum Guide (2020), as a replacement for what used to be servant leadership. I had been in love with servant leadership ever since my student years. I adored Tagore and Iqbal, and knew Greenleaf by heart (check here). And now this. What could “true leadership” be? What does it mean? Can it be something like the Host Leadership suggested by Mark McKergow in the book he wrote with Helen Bailey (Host, 2014)? I don’t know for sure. At least not yet. I am still finding out.
One of the standard ways for me to find out about something, is not so much studying and analyzing it, but making it. Downright practicing it. And see what comes up. Like when a potter, eager to find out about the secret shapes held by a lump of clay, initiates the spinning of their wheel and kneads the…
