Lundquist, LeahSandfort, JodiLopez, CrisSotela Odor, MarcelaSeashore, KarenMein, JenLowe, Myron2013-08-152013-08-152013-08-15L. Lundquist, J. Sandfort, C. Lopez, M. Sotela Odor, K. Seashore, J. Mein, & M. Lowe (Eds.). (2013). Cultivating Change in the Academy: Practicing the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter within the University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota. http://purl.umn.edu/155523https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155523Ebook published independently by University of Minnesota authors practicing the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter to transform their teaching, research and outreach at the University of Minnesota. Cultivating Change in the Academy: Practicing the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter within the University of Minnesota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The companion website for the eBook is available, at: https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/hostingconversations/.The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter is a set of facilitation techniques focused on engaging diverse perspectives in dialogue, an approach to making change in complex systems and an international community of practitioners. Since 2011, faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota who participate in a three-day training work have been applying the approach to many diverse settings. Inspired by the 2012 University of Minnesota collaboratively authored eBook (http://purl.umn.edu/125273) on how technology is Cultivating Change in the Academy, this eBook features twenty-two stories describing how the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter is impacting significant grassroots shifts in teaching, research and outreach across the University.en-USArt of HostingAppreciative InquiryHarvestingDivergence/ConvergenceEight Breaths of Process ArchitectureCommunity of PractitionersFour-Fold PracticeChaordic PathCynefin FrameworkWorld CafeOpen Space TechnologyProAction CaféReflective ListeningBook