ABOUT ART OF HOSTING 2025
What to expect when joining the Art of Hosting Training this year?
2025 Art of Hosting Taiwan will bring together people from business, education, and NGOs to create a shared learning space across different fields. Five experienced international teachers (Stewards and Hosts) will guide the training. Through hands-on dialogue practice, participants will experience the spirit of Art of Hosting and learn useful methods to support teamwork and community collaboration.
The course will be mainly taught in English, with Chinese translation provided. You can speak in the language you feel comfortable with during group discussions.
How will we learn and practice together?
This training is an opportunity to step into participatory leadership. We will work on the edge of ‘praxis’ – the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized through direct application.
Participants will be invited to co-host processes with the support of the Hosting Team. Everyone is free to choose where to step in as a practicing host, a harvester, a participant or an observer.
Joining the Art of Hosting, you will also become part of a global community that practices, steward and co-create these evolving methodologies and philosophies. You can read more about the global Art of Hosting.
We’re dreaming of localized trainings with on-site interpreters and translated materials in the future. AoH Chinese-speaking communities are a dream we’d like to see come true, so we’re inviting more curious souls to join this endeavour! Participating this time also means that you are joining the organizing and the host team in a new experiment, a new step forward for the local Art of Hosting community.
Practical Information
📅 Date
📍Location
Kang Chiao International School Linkou
No. 55, Xinglin Rd., Linkou Dist., New Taipei City 244009, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
地點：
地址：244新北市林口區興林路55號
🎁 Fees
We adopt the tiered-pricing structure for the Art of Training to reflect values and practice that feels both fair and important to us. Please refer to the registration page for more detailed explanations.
🏠 Accommodation
Optional dormitory accommodation will be provided on site (space limited).
🥗 Food
How does the daily flow look like?
Overall flow
In general, please allow and reserve enough learning time for yourself to be fully present during the training. We suggest avoiding any social activities, online calls or other meetings between your arrival and departure.
This training will be co-hosted by five experienced trainers. Possible topics may include:
- Four Fold Practice
- Chaordic Path
- The Circle Way
- Breath Pattern & Powerful Question
- Art of Harvesting
- World Cafe
- Open Space Technology
- Coaching and Practice
Actual training time, content and topics are subject to change to dance with the group’s learning goals, energy and collective needs.
Below is a tentative schedule:
DAY 1:
| 11.30 | Arrival, participants welcome for registration and check-in accommodation |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | 🍍Lunch |
| 13.00 – 16.45 |
Orienting & landing – Welcome & check-in – Prepare our Learning Journey |
| 16.45 | Closing day 1 |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Coaching (optional) for step into practice/hosting |
| 18.00- 19.30 | 🥗Dinner |
| 19.30 onwards | Rest + self organise preparation time if signed up for coaching |
(Daily evening activities will be coaching guidance and preparation time. You will be learning and practicing about the knowledge, skills and the spirit of facilitating meaningful conversations）
DAY 2:
| Before 9.00 | Self organise time: breakfast, morning practice and prep for stepping into practice/hosting. |
| 9.00 – 12.00 |
Welcome & check – in
|
| 12.00 – 14.00 | 🍍Lunch & rest |
| 14.00 – 16.45 | Participatory Practices, Methods and Design, part 2 |
| 16.45 | Closing day 2 |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Coaching (optional) for step into practice/hosting |
| 18.00- 19.30 | 🥗Dinner |
| 19.30 onwards | Rest +self organise preparation time if signed up for coaching |
DAY 3:
| Before 9.00 | Self organise time: breakfast, morning practice and prep for stepping into practice/hosting |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Welcome & check – in Participatory Practices, Methods and Design, part 3 |
| 12.00 – 14.00 | 🍍Lunch & rest |
| 14.00 – 16.45 | Participatory Practices, Methods and Design, part 4 |
| 16.45 | Closing day 3 |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Coaching (optional) for step into practice/hosting |
| 18.00- 19.30 | 🥗Dinner |
| 19.30 onwards | Rest +self organise preparation time if signed up for coaching |
FINAL DAY:
| Before 9.00 | Self organise time: breakfast, morning practice and prep for stepping into practice/hosting. *Today is the check-out day – please pack up and be ready for check-out by the morning. |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Welcome & check – in Capturing our learnings |
| 12.00 – 14.00 | 🍍Communal lunch & network |
| 14.00 – 15.45 | Applying in our contexts |
| 15.45 – 16.30 | Closing day 4 |
| 16.30 onwards | Departure |