A GROUNDED RESPONSE
TO ONLINE ENGAGEMENT
The art of staying grounded while responding to the urgency of the current need for meaningful and effective online engagement.
As we find ourselves adapting to a more virtual and online reality, we find alternative ways to socialize, do our work, and stay in contact with loved ones near and far. Over the last years online work has become a central part of how many of us work and still we often forget what it takes to care for our virtual spaces and each other when working online.
How we meet and host each other online is more important now than ever, whether the groups we are hosting are large or small. It can be a deeply meaningful experience or it can be very frustrating.
This course is designed to minimize the frustration and maximize the value of our online engagements.
FORMAT?
WHAT IS A BEEHIVE FLEX COURSE?
We are offering a more flexible way for you to engage with our courses. We have taken the treasure chest of recordings form our realtime course on this topic and curated the teachings, exercises and support material into a valuable learning experience that you can engage with on your own time. One that is FLEXIBLE and self-paced, and at the same time connected to others on the same journey. The main elements are:
- Self paced learning: Through carefully curated, bite-sized video and audio recordings presenting the core ideas. This allows you to access the teachings when it is convenient for you.
- A community of peer learners and peer feedback. This allows us to get to know peers from all over the world and reflect on our own practice in the light of what others are doing.
- Simple exercises to help you integrate your learning in your own context.
- A practice guide for reference and inspiration, that you can print out and take with you.
Our Invitation
We invite you to join us for an important reminder that the solutions are not only in the technologies we chose, but in us as hosts. It's we who discern what is most needed and helpful, and from that place, design engagements that use the gifts of technology without being distracted or led by the overwhelming need to move ever more conversations online.
We invite you to learn with us and a global community of peers, as we strengthen our shared knowledge and build the capacity to make our online engagements truly meaningful.
COURSE STRUCTURE
This course is based on the "real-time" online course we offered in 2020 as a response to the dramatic increase in online work. It gave us a chance to harvest what we have learned through our many years of experience working online. We chose to organize these practices and these resources in 3 themes:
- Hosting engaging online spaces
- Creating the conditions for meaningful engagement
- Making Sense in the digital realm
Having played a key role in developing the field of online engagement, Beehive Productions utilizes first-hand experience & a rigorous practice of preparing, inviting, hosting both process and technology, and creating intimacy, beauty, and collective meaning online.
Our Themes
HOSTING ENGAGING ONLINE SPACES
Moving from onsite to online - what's most important to know? What do you carry over and what do you change and adapt?
Bringing the ground of our own hosting practice alive in the virtual sphere.
How do we step into a new relationship with technology?
CREATING THE CONDITIONS
Creating containers infused by beauty and the spaciousness and care needed to support human connection.
The imperative to design for need and purpose guides our choices for technology and infrastructure.
Designing for online engagement. What is the same what is different?
SENSE-MAKING IN THE DIGITAL REALM
Making sense together online, using new technology to create "just enough" clarity to move forward in these uncertain and complex times.
The power of visuals to support shared learning and online collaboration.
How do we harvest our learning and make it useful?
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS COURSE?
- 6+ hours of pre-recorded video material
- 3 bonus videos
- A wealth of written material, relevant links, tutorials, and other resources
- Lifetime access to the course
AND A DOWNLOADABLE COMPENDIUM
OF KEY INFORMATION
All This for Only $250 US
WE LOOK FORWARD TO LEARN WITH YOU
“Moving from the often frantic pace & pressure to bring everything online immediately, to connecting with your own grounded response, based on an understanding of what is needed now."
Your Hosts
This course was developed in a collaborative ensemble of Rowan Simonsen and Amy Lenzo of Beehive Productions and Zulma Patarroyo of Pataleta. You will also meet our special guests Chris Corrigan, Nancy White, Mary Alice Arthur, and Bob Stilger.
Rowan Simonsen
Rowan is guided by the question of how to live a simple, beautiful life with impact, asking the questions that really matter.
He is the co-founder of Beehive Productions with Amy Lenzo, a Kaospilot and long time practitioner of the Art of Hosting.
Amy Lenzo
Amy's work is in creating “hospitable space” online – environments that “call to the mystery” and connect us to our bodies and the natural world around us, that open us to the joy of learning, and awaken the power of collective intelligence among us.
Zulma Patarroyo
Zulma has been promoting understanding and collaboration through the magic & power of visuals for the last decade. She uses her art intentionally, to help us all learn by visualizing an essential synthesis of the content being explored.