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“Art of Hosting” is the art of creating a space for essential conversations

..and is a highly efficient way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organization of groups of all sizes. With the help of the multitude of methods (Pro Action Café, Appreciative Exploration, Open Space, etc.) new ideas can be generated and at the same time a transfer of implicit and not easily accessible knowledge takes place, which leads to innovation in the room and subsequently changed Attitude. Valuable experience from experienced advisory councils is easily shared with the newer ones, and newer advisory councils often have innovative ideas for the benefit of all.

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Testimonials


  • Arch. DI Daniel Fügenschuh

    Arch. DI Daniel Fügenschuh

    Vice president Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers and architects

    Our goal was to enable a dialogue and exchange among experts across borders. We succeeded brilliantly, despite or perhaps because of the online format, under the highly competent leadership of Ursula Hillbrand and her team, we succeeded brilliantly. Our participants actively contributed throughout the day and stayed in the digital aperitif rooms for a cultivated exchange, like at a face-to-face conference. We are exited.

  • George Pòr

    George Pòr

    President at Campus Co-Evolve

    As our client in the European Commission, her dedication to create a warm and safe space of authentic human relations in a highly hierarchical workplace, and generate a continually increasing value to both the organization and community members, was the biggest factor in accomplishing our mission.

  • Karlheinz Beer

    Karlheinz Beer

    Architekt BDA & Urban planning

    Baukultur does not stop at borders. Competitions and transparent award procedures ensure diversity, innovation and sustainability in the planning and construction process. With our Interreg project, we have developped and promoted an intensive dialogue in the “neighborhood”.
    Thanks to your creative thinking, we were able to create a a good base for the best from the respective regions can enter our culture of award procedures. Many thanks to Ursula Hillbrand and her team for the successful and insightful organisation and implementation of our 1st cross-border expert symposium.

     

  • Franco Accordino

    Franco Accordino

    Head of Unit “Investement in High-Capacity Networks” at European Commission

    Dedicated mentor and coach, helped me discovering new ways to engage with stakeholders and make sense of their collective intelligence. She masters numerous techniques to harness knowledge, from art of brainstorming to mind mapping, and combines them into the right mix of tools to make conversations meaningful and enjoyable. If you want to design a complex process to achieve a policy or business purpose, shared or personal, Ursula is the right person to ask for!

  • Prof. Dr. Karel Velle

    Prof. Dr. Karel Velle

    Director-general of the Belgian National Archives and the State Archives in the Provinces, Part-time associated Professor at Universiteit Gent

    In each organisation, personnel changes occur continuously; some colleagues only stay for a short while, others develop their whole career at the same organisation. It is of key importance for colleagues to regularly meet and to be given the opportunity to get to know each other, to exchange ideas, across all kinds of boundaries (geographical, language etc.).
    In order to initiate, organise and conduct a dialogue, we called upon Ms. Ursula Hillbrand.

    I am particularly pleased with our collaboration. It was obvious right from the beginning that Ursula has a lot of professional experience in the coaching of groups, but there is much more: She has phantastic personal charisma, lots of empathy and she manages to give collaborators a vision and to make them believe in the future.
    I can highly recommend Ursula to all managers who want to give their collaborators time and space to meet each other and to think about the future of the organisation.

  • Juanita Brown

    Juanita Brown

    Co-Founder, The World Cafe

    Ursula has a unique capacity to hold a whole system lens, while simultaneously cultivating the personal and professional leadership skills at the team level that are also needed to help shape positive futures.  Her use of dialogue and other participatory approaches for honouring multiple perspectives provides pathways for accessing both collaborative intelligence and wise action. In these challenging times, Ursula’s special gifts are sorely needed and I value them greatly.

  • Juliane Bogner-Strauss

    Juliane Bogner-Strauss

    Former Federal Minister for Women, Families and Youth

    The combination of your open personality and determined aim to enable successful conversations and exchange among the participants made all the difference.
    We also appreciated your diligence in designing strategic questions and documenting outcomes. In addition, you were available for any detailed questions by the organising team, which made my services very confident throughout the preparation process and the event itself.

  • Heidelinde Adensam

    Heidelinde Adensam

    Head of Department Energy Efficiency and Buildings, Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology

    The Efficiency Act affects many different stakeholder groups and we had great respect for the evaluation of this controversial law. In the course of many workshops and discussion rounds with the support of Ms. Hillbrand, it was possible to work out the core problems and identify concrete needs for change. At the end of the process, not all interest groups were of the same opinion, but solutions could be identified to balance interests.

     

  • Jürgen Schneider

    Jürgen Schneider

    Head of Directorate General VI – Climate Action and Energy at Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology

    The Efficiency Act affects many different stakeholder groups and we had great respect for the evaluation of this controversial law. In the course of many workshops and discussion rounds with the support of Ms. Hillbrand, it was possible to work out the core problems and identify concrete needs for change. At the end of the process, not all interest groups were of the same opinion, but solutions could be identified to balance interests.

    • Arch. DI Daniel Fügenschuh

      Arch. DI Daniel Fügenschuh

      Vice president Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers and architects

      Our goal was to enable a dialogue and exchange among experts across borders. We succeeded brilliantly, despite or perhaps because of the online format, under the highly competent leadership of Ursula Hillbrand and her team, we succeeded brilliantly. Our participants actively contributed throughout the day and stayed in the digital aperitif rooms for a cultivated exchange, like at a face-to-face conference. We are exited.

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