Radio evolve Elizabeth Debold - editor of evolve - in dialogue with Toke Moeller exploring The Magic in the Middle

How may we practice hosting for the unfolding of Life? - listen here.

For thirty years, Toke Moeller has been hosting conversations that matter in a world of complexity, conflict, crisis, and division. These are the conversations that feel so necessary and yet so often are avoided. Inspired to bring people together to respond to the many conflicts that divide us, Toke trusted the human capacity for curiosity and care. With his partners, he developed The Art of Hosting, The Flow Game and The practicing for peace dojo - approaches to these conversations that comes from generosity - the generosity of holding a space as a host. The Art of Hosting opens up a participatory, communal form of leadership that Moeller has taken into 32 countries in multibel contexts across the planet..

There was something else that opened up in this practice. They called it „The Magic in the Middle.“ - What is this magic? - A mysterious opening to a shared perception that happens when the participants let go of their assumptions and agendas and listen sincerely.

Toke has reverence for this magic, feeling that it is inappropriate to try to pin it down. In an interview with evolve Magazin, he says: “When you come to that kind of gentle, conscious space, it's like the magic of life unfolding, not the magic that you want to cook up as mysterious. When we feel that goodness, that well-being, that wish to support each other and respect each other's lives becomes more important than being right.”

 In this Radio evolve, which was recorded at an evolve LIVE! Webinar, Toke Moeller and Elizabeth Debold inquire into the Magic in the Middle and the importance of hosting the conditions to create the future. How does hosting create a space for Life to unfold? What can we learn from the space between us about the future that wants to emerge?  

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During the Flow Game host training - an art of practicing peace - 13 April 2025 - at Beachmitte - close to where the Berlin wall was before 1989 - and 85 years after the Nazi armies occupied Denmark for 5 years - Felix Faller interviews Toke Moeller on these questions - See video here - on Vimeo - or on YouTube

If you think about your life as a book - what title would that book have?

Who is the protagonist & antagonist in your life?

What wisdom would you today - at 77 - offer to yourself when you were 25 year old ?

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Pauline Wenzel - MSLS Masters student - interviews Toke in June 2023.

What does the Art of hosting mean to you? - Why is it important for you to practise such an art?

Why did you choose to be part of the Art of hosting training in Karlskrona this year?

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What may be some essences of practicing personal peace?

Podcast conversation with Tenneson Wolf & Toke Moeller: Enjoy a listen. Toke Paludan Møller and I explore The Art and the Heart of Practicing Peace.

Such a delight! Toke brings it all. The art. The heart. The personal. The professional. The joy. The discipline. The story. The learning. I loved our conversation. I loved the long pauses when I could see Toke thinking. I loved his joy, and mine, to be in such learning and clarity today. As we've done so much over 25 years. - Tenneson.

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Mary Alice Arthur interviews Toke Moeller at the Montfort University Wisdom School in Bangalore, India 24.1 2023.

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Mira Bangel interviews Toke Moeller on The art and practise of stewarding in order to gain more clarity around the role of stewardship with relation to the AOH community.

What has learning got to do with education, knowing yourself, my life and the time in our world? ... and a few recommendations for younger humans. - See here.

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An interview with Toke Moeller, co-founder of The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, The flow game and the Practising for Peace dojo. Toke Moeller is interviewed by documentary film director Peter Engberg for the media project NEXT STEP HUMANITY. Toke shares his understanding of the interconnectedness between learning, education, knowing yourself and practising peace at this time in our troubled and beautiful world, as well as what advice for life would you offer the next generations?

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The Art of hosting what matters as a practise of peace.

The humble beginnings of the Art of hosting

Hosting as leadership for collaboration

Stories of the humble beginnings of The art of hosting and harvesting conversation and work that matters in Denmark and beyond.

Helle Solvang - a former reporter for the Danish national radio with her own program - and now AOH practitioner - interviews Jan Hein, Monica Nissen and Toke Moeller during and Art of hosting training in Denmark - on their stories of the humble beginnings of The art of hosting and harvesting conversation and work that matters in Denmark and beyond.

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Lecture by Toke Moeller at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - 23 March 2017 - ESS LECTURE at College for Sustainablity.

Toke’s primary focus is on personal transfomation and societal renewal and convening conversations in order to collectively and strategically find wiser and sustainable solutions to problems that matter at this time. He is co-creator of the Art of Hosting participatory leadership approach, that uses personal practice and collaborative innovation to address complex and systemic issues as well a co-founder of The Flow Game, The practising for peace dojo and Designing for wiser action.

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