A transformative laboratory exploring the evolving intersection of technology and human connection
Through four real-time online conversations and prerecorded interviews with thought leaders well versed in using AI, we will delve into how artificial intelligence can both challenge and enhance participatory processes.
November 12 & 19, December 3 & 10
10:00 - 12:00 Pacific / 1:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern / 19:00 - 21:00 CET
Register NowWe invite you to reflect on the delicate balance between hosting human connection and collaboration by building trust, and cultivating personal connections and creating collective insights while working with AI.
Can participatory practice and AI come together in a way that strengthens our human connections and ability to collaborate? Together, we will explore practical applications, ethical considerations, and the deeper questions about what it means to facilitate in a world increasingly shaped by technology and digital intelligence.
"The key to success with AI is not just having the right data, but also asking the right questions." ~ Ginni Rometty
A Collective Inquiry & Laboratory
Here's what we know so far. What might we discover together?
Where AI enhances
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Pattern recognition across large volumes of qualitative data
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Language refinement and accessibility support
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Synthesis of complex, multi-source information
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Structuring ideas from brainstorming sessions
Where AI might interfere
- Trust-building and relationship development
- Navigating sensitive power dynamics
- Cultural nuance and context interpretation
- Real-time conflict resolution
- Enhancing deep human sensing capacity
Some of the questions we’ll be working with are:
How do we host our humanity, walking between technology and human connection?
Where can AI technology support hosting and facilitating meaningful conversations and when and where should AI not be used when working with groups?
How is AI affecting our experiences and stories about work, life and relationships and what stance do we each take around this?
How we will work
Meeting in real time
During the time we work together we will invite and listen to the excited and inspired voices, to the cautious voices, to the practitioners who have valuable experiences to share, to technologists, philosophers and hosts of meaningful social engagement.
We will meet in real-time over four sessions to look at our questions, share our insights, inspirations, and challenges with this emerging new technology, and explore how it might affect culture and social change - now and into the future.
Sharing perspectives
To stimulate our thinking and widen our horizons, we will be interviewing several leading practitioners and thinkers who are working on pushing the edge and understanding the new reality that we are starting to see take shape.
These interviews -- along with a playlist of videos expressing a variety of important perspectives -- will be made available as part of the course, presented in ways we can interact with, inside and outside of the four sessions. In addition, some of the guests interviewed will join us in one or more of the live sessions.
What does that mean practically?
Dates
Wednesdays
- November 12
- November 19
- December 3
- December 10
Times
- 10:00 - 12:00 Pacific
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern
- 19:00 - 21:00 Central European Time
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- View videos in your own time
Costs
- Participation US$350
- Groups of 3 or more receive a $50 discount -- contact us for the code
Your Hosts
This course was developed by the Beehive's creative ensemble...
Rowan Simonsen
Rowan is guided by the question of how to live a simple, beautiful life with impact, asking the questions that really matter. He is the co-founder of Beehive Productions with Amy Lenzo, a Kaospilot and long time practitioner of the Art of Hosting. He is a steward in the Art of Hosting practice community.
Amy Lenzo
Amy is an online activist, focused on creating “hospitable space” online – environments that connect us to our bodies and the natural world; "containers" that open us to the joy of learning, and awaken the power of collective wisdom among us. She is a steward of the World Café Community.
Mary Alice Arthur
An internationally recognised process host for more than 25 years, Mary Alice is a Story Activist working with story in service of positive systemic shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues. She is a steward in the Art of Hosting practice community..
Hosting on the Edge of our Humanity
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