Details
Facilitated by
Troy Bronsink
Date/Time
Mondays | 6 weeks | 7:00-9:00pm | Sept 28 - Nov 9, skip Oct 12
Cost
Free to Members | $149 for Non-Members
Location
The Hive: A Center for Contemplation, Art, and Action | In Person
1628 Hoffner St Cincinnati, OH 45223
About the Class
Domains
Description
Some questions change everything. They arrive at the exact moment we’re ready to hear them—asked by someone who is listening deeply enough to meet the unknown with us. This course explores how such questions are formed, how they function, and how to recognize the moment they’re needed.
What we'll study
Peter Block and Cincinnati's A Small Group movement have named The Six Conversations that move people from disparate interest to shared co-creation: invitation, possibility, dissent, ownership, commitment, gifts. We'll take several passes through all six.
To undergird the 6 conversations, we'll draw on three teachers whose work helps us find presence:
Thomas Hubl — Attunement, Survival Intelligence, and the 3Sync Practice
Cynthia Bourgeault — Law of Three, and the Four Voices of Discernment
Parker Palmer — Clearness Committees (Quaker Circle Listening Practice)
Every session includes
Grounding
Field reports / journal reflection
Circling around a question, and a facilitator's practice
Triads and large group reflection
Between sessions
Daily journal question practice
Preparation/ Reading (shared google drive):
chapters 10–12 of Peter Block's Community: The Structure of Belonging (PDF available
handouts or videos from other teachers'
A weekly practice using that week's question
One outside meeting over the course of the 6 weeks, with 2–3 classmates to self-direct a clearness committee
This is not a project group
You won't be facilitated into a group project here. You're the main actor. You bring your own group, your own action, your own question — and we'll form a short term community of practice sharpening our skills in facilitating.
If you can name a group or issue you convene others around — or plan to — this is for you.
Designed for leaders, clergy, facilitators, coaches, and community builders, this course supports anyone preparing to guide a group, initiative, or project. You bring your real‑world context; we cultivate the presence that frees others to answer and act for themselves.
This Class is For…
Leaders, clergy (imams, rabbis, pastors, chaplains), coaches, and facilitators
Anyone about to lead a group, an action, or a project
Transformational figures — people who've accepted that their own transformation can move families, organizations, and systems
People building a community or neighborhood initiative
Hive fellows whose capstone project involves at least two other people
Intention of the Hive
When you join a Hive experience, you're invited into our intention to create a group experience that's inclusive, rooted in mindfulness, and dynamically relational. We aspire for each Hive experience to model these intentions, and even to refine them as we continue to learn how to gather in a way that's transformative! The embodiment of these intentions by Hive facilitators, Members, and class participants is what makes the Hive the unique and healing social container that many experience it to be. To view our Hive Intentions for gathering, click here.
More About the Facilitators
Troy Bronsink
is a contemplative leadership teacher, trauma-informed executive coach, and writer. He helps individuals and communities cultivate belonging and create skillful agreements. As The Hive’s founder emeritus and a Presbyterian minister, he integrates spiritual depth with practical leadership.