Hosting at the Edge of Our Humanity:
AI & Facilitation
FOUR REAL-TIME ONLINE SESSIONS:
November 12th & 19th
December 3rd & 10th
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10am - 12pm Pacific Time
12 - 2pm Eastern Time
10:00 - 21:00 CEST
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Welcome to AI and Facilitation: Hosting at the Edge of Our Humanity, a transformative course exploring the evolving intersection of technology and human connection.
Through four real-time online conversations and prerecorded interviews with practitioners and thought leaders who are well versed in using AI, we will delve into how artificial intelligence can both challenge and enhance participatory processes.
This course invites you to reflect on the delicate balance between hosting human connection and collaboration by building trust and cultivating personal connections and creating collective insights while working with AI.
Can participatory practice and AI come together in a way that strengthens our human connections and ability to collaborate? Together, we will explore practical applications, ethical considerations, and the deeper questions about what it means to facilitate in a world increasingly shaped by technology and digital intelligence.
As we navigate this new landscape, this course offers a laboratory for playing and experimenting with AI, while making sense of its role in our personal and collective lives. Through key questions, case studies, and live interactions, you will learn to create your own criteria for how to work with AI - considering the integrity of the individual, the group, and the purpose we engage around. Join us in this exciting journey to explore new territory in the field of facilitation ā learning about the intersection of technological possibility and the profound need for human connection.
A Collective Inquiry and Laboratory into:Ā
Where AI Enhances:
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Pattern recognition across large volumes of qualitative data
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Language refinement and accessibility support
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Synthesis of complex, multi-source information
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Structuring ideas from brainstorming sessions
Where AI Might Interfere with Human Connection:
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Trust-building and relationship development
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Navigating sensitive power dynamics
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Cultural nuance and context interpretation
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Real-time conflict resolutionĀ
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Some of the questions weāll be working with are:
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How do we host our humanity, walking between technology and human connection?
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Where can AI technology support hosting and facilitating meaningful conversations and when and where should we not use AI when working with groups?
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How is AI affecting our experience and stories about work, life, & relationships, and what stance do we each take around this?
FORMAT
In this course we will invite and listen to the excited and inspired voices, to the cautious voices, to the practitioners who have valuable experiences to share, to technologists, philosophers and hosts of meaningful social engagement.
We will meetĀ in real-time over four sessions to look at our questions, share our insights,Ā inspirations, and challenges with this emerging new technology, and explore how it might affect culture and social change - now and into the future.Ā
To stimulate our thinking and widen our horizons, we will be interviewing several leading practitioners and thinkers who are working on pushing the edge and understanding the new reality that we are starting to see take shape.
These interviews - along with a playlist of videos expressing a variety of important perspectives - will be made availableĀ as part of the course, presented in ways we canĀ interact with, inside and outside of the four sessions. In addition, some of the guests interviewed will join us in one or more of the live sessions.
"The key to success with AI is not just having the right data, but also asking the right questions."
~ Ginni Rometty
Your Hosts
This course was developed by the Beehive's creative ensemble of Rowan Simonsen, Mary Alice Arthur and Amy Lenzo.
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 is an online activist, focused on creating āhospitable spaceā online ā environments that connect us to our bodies and the natural world; "containers" that open us to the joy of learning, and awaken the power of collective wisdom among us.
Mary Alice Arthur
An internationally recognised process host for more than 25 years,Ā Mary Alice isĀ a Story Activist working with story in service of positive systemic shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues.Ā