In this exploration we (Amy Lenzo and myself from Beehive Productions) are inviting different perspectives on how giving attention to our practices shape" our lives, relationships and society at large. Based on the notion of "What you practice you become."

Would you be willing to share a couple of hours with us online, sharing with our global audience some perspectives of how you see that our practises can be part of shaping the morphic field and what that means for how our actions of making a more subtle positive change in these times of tremendous complexity and overwhelm.
The conversation will be with you, Toke Paludan Møller, co-founder of The Art of Hosting Community and Joseph Jaworski author of "Source" and other books. We would also love a session with the 3 of you coming together to share, if at all possible.

Defining the Central Garden 

The metaphor of a Central Garden comes from Juanita Brown, co-founder of the World Cafe dialogic practice, who describes the courtyard in the middle of her adopted grandmother’s home in Chiapas, Mexico - lush with vivid bougainvillea, vibrant flowers, and verdant trees in big clay pots surrounding a large fountain in the center. You enter the central garden, or jardín central as they call it in Latin America, by going through any one of the multiple arched doorways that surround this open space in the very heart of the home. 

The innovations and practices that we introduced briefly earlier have largely emerged and grown up together in the last few decades; new growth nourished from the same ground of shared values and intentions for co-creating a better world. In our metaphor, these practices are the doorways that lead into the Central Garden, which is the focus of this article. 

This metaphor of a Central Garden works on multiple levels. In this article...