Welcome!

This document outlines the process of joining the church of interbeing host team.

What it means to be a host

Responsible for curating, designing, and guiding our Sunday services, the host team is the foundation of the church of interbeing project.

Hosting an interbeing service well requires presence, attentiveness, coordination, equanimity, and sensitivity. The host role is a powerful context for accelerating your growth as a space-holder, and an opportunity to become a key part of a pathmaking experiment in collective ritual.

Hosting is a volunteer role. Though there may be ways that participating as a host leads into work that is compensated at some point in the future, the host role remains voluntary.

Before deciding to become a host, please carefully read this onboarding document, our constitution, host handbook, and guidelines for services and consider if it is a good fit for you.

If you want to contribute to hosting services on an occasional basis under the guidance of someone from the core host team, without stepping into the responsibility of being a host, you may choose to participate in the Contributors Circle instead of the host team.

What hosts commit to:

• Sincerity — as a host you are expected to be sincere and dedicated in your effort to create excellent services, and to grow your capacity to do this by learning and inviting feedback.
• Respect — hosts treat the ceremonial space we are responsible for, the team we are part of, and the community we steward with respect and care.
• Participation — hosts are expected participate by:
  • regularly attending interbeing services and providing feedback to other hosts;
  • participating in hosting, cohosting, or contributing to services (generally being involved in some way in one service each month or so);
  • joining our monthly host dinner whenever possible;
  • reading messages the hosts telegram group and responding as necessary.
• Collective responsibility for services — the host team is collectively responsible for delivering a service every Sunday. By becoming a host, you are stepping into this shared responsibility. When unexpected things happen that disrupt the calendar (such as last-minute venue changes or service cancellations due to health or other unexpected factors), you are responsible, along with the other hosts, to resourcefully pull together to fill gaps and help other hosts when they need it.
• Collective responsibility for the hosts team — we create the culture that we work in. Hosts are expected to actively engage in co-creating a rewarding, honest, and beautiful internal culture in the project. If you find yourself becoming frustrated or dissatisfied, use this as opportunity to improve the system by engaging your wish for change and providing constructive feedback to other hosts or the stewards council.
• Care as a representative of the project — as a host, you are representing the project in services and other church events.

What the project and team commit to providing hosts:

• Clear, supportive guidance and feedback that will allow you to grow in your space-holding role.