Art of Hosting Mendoza 2023

Art of Hosting Mendoza 2023

I could say that for me it started a couple of years ago, with a ritual.

My sister gave me for Xmas a present that marked me deeply. Per instructions back then I wrote in a piece of paper inside the tiniest leather bag:

"I wish to live life with their paradoxes and changes, in a more cheerful way, with more sense of humor."

Spirals and tribal drawings accompanied the text. And these words:

"I deserve" "I am valuable" "I can". "What I am afraid of I affirm" "What I affirm I realize"

The actual circle for this Art of Hosting began for me when I offered the leather bag and the intention inside. Somehow matched with the question that gathered us all there:

"What Possibilities Emerge when we set Free the Creativity in the Service of Life"

Intense. Intent. Intention. Yes, my chair had a very small piece of paper with something I couldn't distinguish from afar: TENSION.

Why was that for me there while others had nicer things? I don't know. Something in the field, one could say. And in the end all made sense, with the gentle swing between chaos and order, with all that happened and all that was harvested in the process.


Each day had a focus lens,

  1. Creativity: Living systems, Visual Thinking and a marvelous World Café.
  2. Life: Regeneration, Ancestral Circles, Silence, Chaordic Space and the deepest Open Space I've participated thus far.
  3. Service: Design for Wiser Action, Dragon Dreaming, Birthgiving and Closure.


Ages ago, in a different context, I participated in another Art of Hosting training. I knew its design was not introvert-friendly (and still isn't). The weird part is that back then I said I was never ever going to be part of this experience again. And yet, I did (and I would again). In my mind to explain it is Freddie Mercury singing "It's a kind of magic", but to put it in simpler words it is: People People People.

Like a fellow, when lightly said "you need to till the soil" and for me and my structures it meant so much! Or when we discussed vulnerability and emotional responsibility. Oh, I cried and I laughed in abundance those days.


Today, ten days after, we did a follow-up activity with Alina Irupe Niveyro , Carolina Casal , Marcela Monteros , Flor Suchecki , Daniela -Nani- Ruiz and Ayelén Malaquín . Something was transformed in us, for better. And this gratefulness feeling comes again:

To all the ones that were part of this Art of Hosting Mendoza 2023, and in particular to the ones that called it and sustained the space for all of us:

Mariano Carniel , Francia Mazzo Iturriaga , Marisa Curato , Pablo Villoch , Tamara Kostetsky , Gustavo Olivera ??????

Thank you Thank you Thank you

Mariano Carniel

Facilitador de Impacto y transformación Consiente | Explorador del conocimiento y conector global

1 年

Thank you Pablo Augusto Mazzeo for encouraging you to participate, for overcoming your fears, but above all for being who you are. It is incredible what we can do with others and if that emerges from conversations, from questions that perhaps have no answers, what better way to encourage ourselves than to look for them, to look for more questions. After all, that's what it's all about. Pura Vida

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