Art of Hosting Athina

AoHAthina is social cooperative (KOINSEP) created in 2018 by a group of practitioners and stewards of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations / Participatory Leadership.

Core to AoHAthina is offering safe yet challenging spaces for learning, therefore being a Learning Laboratory, where people learn how to lead, navigate and co-create in these changing, complex and uncertain times. The cooperative works in multiple domains and levels simultaneously in order to create a systemic approach to learning and applying.

It also works with teams, organisations, and communities who are in pursuit of a collective purpose that requires new forms of application. It brings new ways of working that are based on regeneration through collaboration, as well as working creatively with conflict, complexity and uncertainty. In particular, it supports with architecting process, so that relationships of collaboration are created and go to work in discovering new innovative solutions.

The cooperative also creates connections between people in different localities and regions, weaving together cultures, projects, and prototypes into greater systems of influence. This takes the form of social labs and Third Spaces, hybrid spaces where people from different places, sectors and experiences can create new cultures of living and working together. It brings a combination of learning, prototyping, practicing and scaling as a community of practice so that a wider field emerges and a body of knowledge is created.