The Culture of Affective Hospitality: Willingness to Open Up

The training of emotional competence for students is therefore only one element of Affective Hospitality on EHL Campus Passugg . The environment in which teaching takes place must also develop in the direction of emotionally competent behavior

Staff and lecturers were introduced to attentive and empathic listening a year ago According to Otto Scharmer,

" listening is the most important and most underrated leadership skill " and it takes a lot of training and introspection to practice true open - minded listening that is not burdened constantly by our own ideas and thoughts training of empathic listening , EHL Campus Passugg is gradually introducing platforms that support open exchange and mutual understanding between students and staff across departments and hierarchies For example , the EHL Passugg Family Circle is used to find answers to important campus questions together, or the Baobab Table an idea from EHL Campus Lausanne , is intended to lower the inhibition threshold in the Food Court to sit down at the table with unknown people and exchange ideas informally and get to know and understand each other better.

On EHL Campus Passugg we want to live what we teach , and it takes time and patience to break down hierarchies and silos to enable a culture of trust that sees students and staff as mature , selfresponsible people and where fruitful collaboration , exploration and action are possible . Affective Hospitality means the willingness to open up , to show oneself as vulnerable and approachable , and to make the emotional component just as important as the factual and subject - related one This affective attitude can be lived out in every single work and study place It takes courage to venture beyond one' s own comfort zone and into a field of uncertainty. But the trust, security and connectedness that underlie an affective culture will enable us to move forward in the future with agility, purpose and new ideas

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