Guest Blog: Rainbow People
Guest Blog by Petra Počanić Part 5 (Click here for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) DAY 5– RAINBOW PEOPLE On the last day of the Hosting Eco-Social Innovation workshop, a LOVE BOMBING to all! [Editors note: Love Bombing is a method where participants stand in a circle. One person steps in the center and everyone else […]
Guest Blog: Opening New Spaces
Guest Blog by Petra Počanić Part 4 (Click here for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 5) DAY 4 – SUMMARIZING AND OPENING NEW SPACES Even though it felt like month four, it was only day four. There are people, places, and things you co-create that make you feel unstoppable, energized, and motivated. The Hosting Eco-Social […]
Live Your Dream: A Workbook to Change Your Life
We are very excited to share the Art Monastery’s latest publication, a workbook called “Live Your Dream: Start Here. Start Now.” Made possible by funding from Erasmus+ and collaboration with our international partners plenum, Visionauts, and Sendzimir Foundation, this little book is 25 pages of full-color step-by-step exercises that guide you through identifying what is important to […]
Guest Blog: Listening for the Gift to Give
Guest Blog by Petra Počanić Part 3 (Click here for Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, and Part 5) Photos by Sylvia Brenzel unless otherwise noted. DAY 3 – GOOD IDEAS COME FROM LISTENING A GIFT TO THE INHABITANTS OF MONTEGABBIONE A new challenge ahead for our third day: How can we become a gift to Montegabbione? A one […]
Guest Blog: Spaces of Trust & Awareness
Guest Blog by Petra Počanić Part 2 (Click here for Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5) Photos by Sylvia Brenzel unless otherwise noted. DAY 1 – CREATING SPACES OF TRUST AND CREATIVE CONFIDENCE Tuesday Sep 20th was the official start of the training. The whole day was in the spirit of building relations of trust and […]
Guest Blog: Hosting Social Innovation
Guest Blog by Petra Počanić Part 1. (Click here for Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5) A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY BEGINS This past September I participated in ‘Hosting Innovation Certificate Training,’ an event focused on methods and tools to inspire, activate and guide groups of people during innovation processes by helping them unlock their collective creative potential to come […]
Hosting Transformation: Berlin
August 22 to 28, I participated in the fourth Hosting Transformation conference. Organized by the International Partnership for Transformative Learning (of which the Art Monastery is a founding member), this year’s conference was in Berlin. Facilitators, experimental educators, coaches, researchers, and artists gathered from all over Europe, North & South America to share wisdom, meet […]
Summer 2016: Paradise
This summer marked the Art Monastery’s first summer Lab in the USA. I would say the one of the most commonly uttered words when talking about the place and our time in Vermont was paradise. That’s a good sign, right? One wonderful element was the fabulous Scottish cinematographer Gerry McCulloch, (who came to continue our collaboration — […]
Ospita La Tua Propria Trasformazione: The Artmonk Experience
**Because this event will be held in Italian, this post is also in Italian.**
