What is the Conversation Café HLC?
The Host Learning Circle is one way in which we can bring CC Hosts together to share the joys, and yes, even the challenges of hosting CCs, and maybe even learn a little something from one another.
Hosting is a community service, a personal exercise in awareness and compassion, and a powerful action we take to heal the divisions and delusions in society. It deserves our best, and we can do our best through supporting one another by sharing what we learn. While our café tables are separated in time and space, we are part of a global community of conversation hosts, each discovering valuable ways to have more brilliant conversations.
The Host Learning Circle is one way we can inspire and teach one another. Please join us.
- Monthly HLC Tele-Conferences
- A Calendar for listing the CCs and other dialogue Events of HLC members (coming Fall 2008)
- An HLC online community forum (send request for membership to CC Administrator.)
- Personal Access for uploading event photos to the CC Photo Gallery (coming Fall 2008)
- Exclusive HLC Bulletins and Announcements
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the agreements get sort of lost and overrun by habits
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there isn't a clear 'contracting' or buy-in to the agreements for each session
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there is an unofficial 'core' of 'old timers' who dominate
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some of the agreements seem to get violated - a member tends to get challenging ("you're wrong")
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a fervently opinionated member goes into lecturing or preaching mode, etc.
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the group 'handles' it by tolerating ('being nice') -hosts may be reluctant to make waves -- nothing gets said
The next Host Learning Circle Tele- conference call is July 8, 2008 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm PDT, with host Susan Partnow.
TOPIC: Getting Back to Basics when your CC Drifts Does any of this happen at your CC? If not, did it ever? Or if you are a novice, want to solve the problems before they arise?
Please join Susan Partnow for an enlivening conversation about what happens when the form fades and the quality goes down. To register, send a request with your name, location, contact info. (email address and telephone number) to CC Central.
If you are a registered CC host and are interested in being a member of the HLC community, please contact the CC Administrator.