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SHE (Sustainable Hospitality Exchange) is an idea that is shared by many. It is not just about hospitality exchange but also about how it is facilitated, on a personal and on a network level. At the core of SHE is the praxis of sharing. Keywords are: trust, interconnectivity, caring, sharing, passion, meaning.

Sustainable can mean many different things. It is connected with endurance, future existence and continuity. It could also mean respect towards the surroundings, environment, members, society. Other key-words that are connected with sustainable: self-inventing/ recycling, self-regulating, non-specific attachment, sharing, not appropriating.

SHE is also a concept to help understand hospitality exchange, the networks, its meaning, its impact, its importance, the wider context. It is a way to theorize about hospitality exchange and to interconnect it with the practical impact, to help fostering a world of sharing and to make hospitality exchange sustainable.

On a personal level
It is about personal interaction, peer to peer, and the trust between these people. It is about discovery and learning, through traveling and exchange. It is about inclusiveness and transparency, mutual empowerment. It is also about an emotional discovery of your capacities and creating shared ground.

It is connected with the 'art of hosting' by creating space for meaningful interactions, shared by anyone who is involved. "We are all hosts".

On a network level
It is how the networks that facilitate hospitality exchange are shared and connected with communities. What are the roots of these networks, is it a network run by the members themselves? Is it rooted in local communalities? Is power in these networks shared? Keywords here are: transparency, openness, inclusiveness.

socio-political
On a socio-economic level it is about overcoming the consumer-producer boundary (you share a place for a little while - you don't consume it), and to see it as part of the culture of gift-economics. Host and guests become equal 'stake-holders', equal participants of the same shared process.

On a deeper spiritual and socio-political level: non-specific attachment; no ego's, spiritual development, anarchy, holistic. No power over but power to. Facilitating, empowering, sharing of resources. Dissolve (hierarchical) power. Positive freedom.