Day 1: Stepping in to community
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Day 2: Stepping up into community
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Day 3: Stepping out into community
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What are you learning about hosting self?
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What are you learning about hosting others?
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What are you learning about co-creation?
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Here are the questions and topics called during Open Space, and a harvest template for the conversations.
You can also download the complete harvest.
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Design for Wiser Action is a collaborative project design tool and practice with a difference. On the final day, 10 of us brought projects, and invited wise council from the other participants, co-designing our work together. We look forward to seeing what comes next!
Here is a link to one version of the Design for Wiser Action template |
A meta harvest poem offered by Jane at the end of our time together
I have a dream Heartbeat, drumbeat Calling, calling, calling I feel it in my trembling bones I hear it in the shiver of silver-green leaves In the keening of my grief and yours In the old, old rhythm of foot stamp on red earth I walk through a grove of whispering ancestors I pass over the threshold of longing And step into the ancient space, the ancient form The circle that holds it all My inner country With its mountains and valleys of discomfort and disgust Rivers of boredom and judgment Sunny beaches of curiosity and joy Rocky plains of exhaustion Ever shifting seas of my tenuous belief in my expert self I hold onto these things as the crab holds painfully onto its shell Even as it cracks and falls away Leaving me softened, exposed, vulnerable As a new expression of myself emerges I sit and listen Or I sit and don’t |
How can I ask for what I need when I don’t know what that really is?
How can I offer what I can when I have already given so much? There is a falling man on the wall And in my chair, and yours Me, you, us Falling, falling, falling Into a soft and hosted landing on fold upon fold upon fold upon fold Untethering ourselves from the fears that keep us small Opening ourselves into the full height of our courage to step up Let go of ownershit Participate Generate’ Co-create Ask questions with power Have conversations that matter Learn to hold, hold, hold Until noonday sunlit clarity emerges And we can act Stepping out from this co-created community This sacred space of shared humanity Into the place of our multiple belongings Soaring, soaring, soaring on the wild updraft of knowing That I am what I am Because of you We are who we are because of each other Ubuntu |
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Personal reflectionThis reflection of the training was offered by Michelle Croker.
The Art of Hosting was a revelation to me, except rather than discovering something new, it was about re-finding something that I had forgotten I had already known for some time. It is the closest I have come to reliving the euphoric experience of studying for a Masters of Social Ecology in the early 2000’s, and discovering for the first time a whole melting pot of oddballs just like me, those who hadn’t managed to have their rough edges smoothed by time, or repeated agitation. The pinnacle for me was participating in the Design for Wiser Action process, which felt like the most sophisticated design process I have ever been involved in and I just want to do more of it. Art of Hosting enabled me to meet a truly magnificent bunch of people, so talented and yet so willing to be vulnerable all at once. The processes we worked on felt like a homecoming and I arrived home passionately alive and brimming with enthusiasm for applying my new learnings. This lasted a full week and then I fell in a heap, overwhelmed by the enormity of working in a way that felt so central to my core, but so out of sync with the organisational structures I move in and around. So for now I am shuffling along, dreaming big but taking baby steps that are hopefully allowing me to integrate this way of working into my being. |
A gallery of unanswered questionsA few 'travelling' questions asked by participants during the training
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