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?
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?
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.
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 ?
See full video here - on VIMEO - or on YouTube - and a shorter version here..
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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?
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A 4 fold practise - an individual and collective practise at core to the art of hosting
- Tracy, Narayan, Isabel and Toke offers at the Art of hosting training in Karlskrona - June 2024.
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A 4 fold practise - Toke offers at the Art of hosting training in Karlskrona June 2023.
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