Hospitality: Ripe for the Learning
Most people think of hospitality as a social grace, something you remember to do like mom taught you, when you know guests are coming to visit.
True hospitality is so much more.
In Hawai‘i our word for hospitality is ho‘okipa, and it is thought of as a value we share. Ho‘okipa is the value of the month for us on Talking Story, and I have invited our JJL contributing authors and other bloggers I admire to guest post, sharing their thoughts on hospitality. I asked that they share
...stories about great customer service, or
...about places they’ve traveled to which felt like home, or
...perhaps a story of meeting someone, in a time that started a special relationship in a unique way,
...or perhaps about the best first day they ever had at a new job or in a new neighborhood.
I asked that they write what they hope for in hospitality, or how they feel it can transform people, or simply to tell us why it’s a value so close to their heart.
They have done so magnificently, and I thought you’d all enjoy reading their essays. Come visit!
- By Deb Estep, author of Deb Inside:
Ho'okipa Via The United States Postal Service - By Lisa Haneberg, author of Management Craft:
Build Energy then Go Where the Energy Is - By Reg Adkins, author of Elemental Truths:
Hospitality: Our Gatherings Seek to Meet a Need and
Our Gatherings Nudge Us Toward Collaboration - By Maria Palma, author of The Good Life:
Hospitality: The Key to Peace on Earth - By Dave Rothacker, author of Rothacker Reviews:
Ho'okipa: A Mother's Love - By April Groves, author of My Beautiful Chaos:
Dissecting Hospitality - By Joanna Young, author of Coaching Wizardry:
Writer, reader, place: writing with ho'okipa - and by me, Rosa Say: Hospitality and the Comforts of Home, with Company and Send that Blackberry to Solitary Confinement
If you’d like to join in the conversation, or in the writing, please do! Our talk story on Ho‘okipa continues through the month of July.
It started with this essay: Ho‘okipa, the Hospitality of Complete Giving
from the JJL Archives:
Setting the Table, The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business, a book review.
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