All Conversations Tagged 'art' - The Art of Hosting2024-03-29T02:08:25Zhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=art&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIdeas about gifts conversationstag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-03-25:4134568:Topic:758352013-03-25T04:38:12.855ZAmanda Fentonhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>From the email list March 2013...</p>
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<p><span>I have two upcoming workshops in which I want to incorporate conversations around gifts. Both groups are with community leaders (and emerging leaders) - one is a rural women's leadership circle and another is a church group.</span><br></br><br></br><span>My intention is to invite them into discernment about their own and each other's gifts, and then invite them to consider how they might bring meaning and transformation into their communities by…</span></p>
<p>From the email list March 2013...</p>
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<p><span>I have two upcoming workshops in which I want to incorporate conversations around gifts. Both groups are with community leaders (and emerging leaders) - one is a rural women's leadership circle and another is a church group.</span><br/><br/><span>My intention is to invite them into discernment about their own and each other's gifts, and then invite them to consider how they might bring meaning and transformation into their communities by offering those gifts and supporting each other's offerings. There will also be some conversation around what it means to participate in a gift economy.</span><br/><br/><span>I'd be interested in any ideas, questions, tools, games, etc. that people have used for this kind of conversation/workshop.</span></p>
<p><span>Heather</span></p>
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<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Heather!</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">lovely idea to incorporate a conversation around the gifts! it's always a juicy conversation...</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In the gift economy workshops I've been co-hosting, we usually start by watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EEZkQv25uEs" target="_blank">sacred economics video</a> of <a href="http://charleseisenstein.net/" target="_blank">Charles Eisenstein</a>. It's a great conversation starter. then we share some questions and reflections. We talk about what gift economy is and so on. then I usually share my own story, how I live in the gift economy.</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Second part is an exercise which I think you might be able to use. It is from Charles E.'s workshop. We make three rounds and people work in two's. We ask these questions:<br/>First round: What is it that you would do, were you not limited by money or other concerns? What is the gift that your heart wants to offer to the world? what would make your heart sing?<br/>Second round: This time, partners can touch each other on the shoulder or arm or wherever they like (should they choose to touch), look in the eye, and tell one another what gifts they see in the other. <br/>Third round: Having answered the first two questions, now what is it that prevents them to offer their gifts to the world?<br/>As one speaks, the other only listens, and offers no advice or solution. Occasionally the listening partner can ask: "is this really true?"</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In the third part of the workshop, we host a gift circle. In the gift circle, we make three rounds: First we speak one or two things that we can gift to others in the circle. In the second round, we share one or two things we need currently - it can be anything, from childcare, to emotional support to money to wanting to learn crochet. Third round, we match gifts with needs. Either by making another round around the circle, or by letting people just go and talk to one another as they see gifts and needs match.</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">enjoy! </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Filiz</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>I offer these ideas and hope you can bounce off of them to fit your style</span><br/><span>and the group. these are quick descriptions. Please contact me if you want</span><br/><span>more detail.</span><br/><br/><span>Stories of Gifts - I invite participants to tell a story about a highly</span><br/><span>memorable gift that they received; and a story about a highly memorable gift</span><br/><span>that they gave. We do this in circle if the group is small or in smaller</span><br/><span>groups, if large number of people. We then talk about the feelings they had</span><br/><span>in each situation.</span><br/><span>I expand to an imaginary activity by asking "What gift would you most like</span><br/><span>to give to this community/organization? What gift would you like to most</span><br/><span>receive from this community/organization?" We then discern the meaning to</span><br/><span>the group.</span><br/><br/><span>Give, Gain, Gather - I create a chart on the wall with 3 circles or</span><br/><span>columns. Give, Gain, Gather. Give is what each person wants to give</span><br/><span>(skill, experience, object, etc); Gain is what each person wants to receive,</span><br/><span>and Gather is the ways that each person wants to work together with others</span><br/><span>to give and gain. Each person either writes answers on post-it notes and</span><br/><span>pastes; or shares their answers. We then discern the themes and meanings.</span><br/><br/><span>Symbolic Sharing - I invite participants to bring objects that they perceive</span><br/><span>as representing their gifts and each other's gifts. We give the objects to</span><br/><span>each other, explaining the gifts. Each person has a wonderful pile of gifts</span><br/><span>in front of them. The group then talks about how the gifts can be combined</span><br/><span>or connected to create a larger whole. We physically move the gifts to</span><br/><span>demonstrate the connections.</span></font></p>
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<p><span>Heather:</span><br/><br/><span>I have found Peter Block's "gifts conversation," as described in his book</span><br/><span>Community: the Structure of Belonging, to be a wonderful framing--one that</span><br/><span>takes people deeply into their authentic selves. It's worth reading the</span><br/><span>whole section (pp.139-142) if you can get your hands on the book. Here are</span><br/><span>the questions he suggests:</span><br/><br/><span>What is the gift you currently hold in exile?</span><br/><span>What is it about you that no one knows about?</span><br/><span>What are you grateful for that has gone unspoken?</span><br/><span>What is the positive feedback you receive that still surprises you?</span><br/><span>What is the gift you have that you do not fully acknowledge?</span><br/><br/><span>Block also suggests as part of the closing of an gatehring to ask people to</span><br/><span>specifically acknowledge gifts they have received from another individual</span><br/><span>during the time they have just spent together.</span><br/><br/><span>I also love his wise and wry framing of the essence of this conversation:</span><br/><br/><span>"In our attraction to problems, deficiencies, disabilities, and needs, the</span><br/><span>missing </span><span>community conversation is about gifts. The only cultural practices that</span><br/><span>focus on gifts are retirement parties and funerals. We only express</span><br/><span>gratitude </span><span>for your gifts when you are on your way out or gone. If we really want to</span><br/><span>know what gifts others see in us, we have to wait for our own eulogy, and</span><br/><span>even then, as the story goes, we will miss it by a few days.</span><br/><br/><span>In community building, rather than focusing on our deficiencies and</span><br/><span>weaknesses, which will most likely not go away, we gain more leverage when</span><br/><span>we focus on the gifts we bring and seek ways to capitalize on them. Instead</span><br/><span>of problematizing people and work, the conversation that searches for the</span><br/><span>mystery of our gifts brings the greatest change and results.</span><br/><br/><span>The focus on gifts confronts people with their essential core, that which</span><br/><span>has the potential to make the difference and change lives for good. This</span><br/><span>resolves the unnatural separation between work and life. Who we are at work</span><br/><span>is our life. Who we are in life is our work. The leadership task--indeed the</span><br/><span>task </span><span>of every citizen--is to bring the gifts of those on the margin into the</span><br/><span>center.</span></p>
<p><br/><span>This applies to each of us as an individual, for our life work is to bring</span><br/><span>our </span><span>gifts into the world. This is a core quality of a hospitable community,</span><br/><span>whose </span><span>work is to bring into play the gifts of all its members, especially</span><br/><span>strangers."</span><br/><br/><span>Peace,</span><br/><span>Ben Roberts</span></p>
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<p><span><span>I recommend Lewis Hyde's book "The Gift" which has a wonderful fairy tale about the girl who is most generous receives the support of the universe, while her sisters fear and greed net them trouble. I love sharing that story before opening the conversation of the gift economy. Lewis' book is a must read for us all, to make the clear distinction about what arises in the gift economy (art, parenting, etc.) and the need to be creative and clear in relating to the market economy.</span></span></p>
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<div><span>Very inspiring for me.</span><br/><span>To talk about gifts appears as a path for a very quick shift in a group. The question what do I want to receive lead me to my deeper desires. The question what do I most like to give lead me to my potentials, my resources and my better attitude. And the third circle brings the attention to the ways of communication and the system behind. Wonderful. I would be very grateful, if you find some day time to describe the process in detail.</span><br/><span>Thanks for this gift,</span><br/><span>Rolf</span></div>
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<div><span><span>Hello Heather,</span><br/><br/><span>I'd like to share a Gift discovery process which may spark some ideas...</span><br/><br/><span>I just had the good fortune of spending the last three days with Jack Pearpoint and Lynda Kahn from Inclusion Press (</span><a href="http://www.inclusion.com/" target="_blank">www.inclusion.com</a><span>).</span><br/><br/><span>Jack, along with the late Marsha Forrest, John O'Brien and Judith Snow developed a group planning process called MAPS in the late 1980s, that was originally used in supporting students with disabilities and other roles that have been devalued to move into mainstream classrooms. The process uses an exploration of a person or group's history to focus on naming their gifts and what it will take for others to receive those gifts. It also incorporates graphic facilitation and is a powerful and often transformative process.</span><br/><br/><span>The MAPS process, in brief, is as follows:</span><br/><br/><span>1. Hearing the Story: A person shares three stories which speak to the question: </span><i>What can my past teach me about my gifts? </i><span>One of the stories is about a recent moment. The story-teller is also asked to share a central image for each of the stories and one thing that the story says to me at that moment. Everyone else listens - no advice or analysis is given.</span><br/><br/><span>2. Honoring the Dream: The story-teller is then asked to reflect on the question of </span><i>What is my Dream/ my personal vision/ purpose?</i><span> Again, the person is supported in creating an image that expresses the Dream and is asked </span><i>What does the Dream tells me about my gifts?</i><br/><br/><span>3. Recognizing the Nightmare: The next step is to briefly identify the shadow side of the dream. This is captured in an image (which is smaller than the Dream) and the question is asked </span><i>What can the Nightmare can teach us about your gifts?<br/></i><br/><span>4. Naming Gifts: The rest of the group is asked to reflect on the stories that have been shared and notice what they say about the story-teller's gifts and contributions. They are asked to name the gifts, which are recorded. The story-teller is asked to what it is like to hear these gifts named and to add to the growing list. Some key summary words are identified and an image can be crafted to symbolize the Gift.</span><br/><br/><span>5. What it Takes: Everyone in the group is asked to think about what it takes for others to receive the story-teller's gifts and name them - places and roles in the community where the gifts might be received, support needed, expectations that will encourage offering of the Gift, things to learn or practice in order to develop strength in giving...</span><br/><br/><span>6. Action Agreements: Some concrete steps are agreed to amongst the group in order to create opportunities for the person to give her gifts. </span><br/><br/><span>All of the images and words are harvested on a large template, which can make for some pretty inspiring wall paper!</span><br/><br/><span>Here's a link to some more resources: </span><a href="http://inclusion.com/maps.html" target="_blank">http://inclusion.com/maps.html</a><span> & </span><a href="http://www.inclusion.com/bkpathmapshandbook.html" target="_blank">http://www.inclusion.com/bkpathmapshandbook.html</a><br/><br/><span>I look forward to hearing how your workshop goes.</span><br/><br/><span>Kind regards,</span><br/><br/><span>Chris Lee</span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><span><span>I LOVE Lewis Hyde's work and so happy to see him copied on this email. He was a massively influential thinker in my life and his work on gifts is unparalleled. Gratitude to you Lewis! Here are two blog posts I made on his work nine years ago: </span><a href="http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?s=lewis+hyde" target="_blank">http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?s=lewis+hyde</a></span></span></span><div>My favourite Peter Block question on gifts is "What is the gift you hold in exile?"</div>
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<div><span>Hi, Chris and AOH team,</span><div>Glad that Lewis' work has been of use for many decades. As I wrote to Heather, Lewis and I were part of a fabulous program for teens that the American Friends Service Committee had in Pittsburgh, PA in the 60's. We had circle conversations, seminars on subjects of our own choosing and workcamps where we did real work in poor communities. <div>I also danced in a performance piece inspired by the <b>Gift</b>, called <i>First Fruits, </i>choreographed by Sally Nash in Sperryville, VA in 1986. </div>
<div>Peter Block's focus on gifts instead of deficiency makes so much sense. As an educator, I focus on making the space where every young person understands that he or she has gifts that world needs.</div>
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<div><span>Dear All,</span><div>Thank you for such a rich and inspiring conversation on gifts. I just saw this TED Talk, on The Art of Asking and found it inspiring, in the spirit of this conversation :</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking.html</a></div>
<div>Enjoy,</div>
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<div><span>It's lovely to see your name appear on this stream of conversation Lewis. I, too, have been greatly influenced by your work in the past few years and have recommended your book in many of my leadership workshops. Your book and Sacred Economics inspired me to bring the gift economy into my work by changing my business model for my leadership coaching. I wrote about it here: </span><a href="http://heatherplett.com/hire-me/karma-coaching-a-new-business-model-and-an-experiment-in-gift-economy/" target="_blank">http://heatherplett.com/hire-me/karma-coaching-a-new-business-model-and-an-experiment-in-gift-economy/</a><span> </span><div>Thank you to everyone who has responded to this query about my upcoming gift conversations. You've given me much fodder for thought and I'm sure it will be a rich conversation. </div>
<div>I consider this AoH list to be part of the gift economy - we regularly gift each other with ideas for our work, and for that I am deeply grateful.</div>
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</div> Hosting a collective artistic activitytag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-03-24:4134568:Topic:759162013-03-24T22:10:19.645ZAmanda Fentonhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>From the email list February 2013...</p>
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<p><span>Dear AOH community,</span><br></br><br></br><span>Thank you for all the wisdom that is shared on this list! I'm wondering if anyone has had good experiences with hosting collective artistic activities -- where instead of a conversation the focus is creating something together. We have a group of young farmers we would like to try this with, as a different way of interacting and getting to know each other, ideally also exploring a theme…</span></p>
<p>From the email list February 2013...</p>
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<p><span>Dear AOH community,</span><br/><br/><span>Thank you for all the wisdom that is shared on this list! I'm wondering if anyone has had good experiences with hosting collective artistic activities -- where instead of a conversation the focus is creating something together. We have a group of young farmers we would like to try this with, as a different way of interacting and getting to know each other, ideally also exploring a theme related to the future of agriculture. The collectively created piece could either be temporary or lasting, as we're most interested in the process. If anyone has recommended activities, guides or words of wisdom for hosting something like this, please let me know.</span><br/><br/><span>Thank you!</span><br/><span>Thea</span></p>
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<p><span><span>Hi, Thea,</span></span></p>
<div>I specialize in reaping the unconscious wisdom that comes from creating art together. As a species, we've been drawing for 60,000 years and writing for 5000. In each of us lies important images that hold the key to new, positive possibilities.</div>
<div> I've developed an artistic structure for a small or large community to explore a theme. It's basically a form of collage of gluing paper to a wooden background. There's an on-going project inspired by an 8 year old girl who asked "What if the whole world made a painting together?" From her amazing vision, the Singing Tree Project grew where a forest of murals, each of an indigenous tree on the earth in space, has evolved. Every mural is a conversation about whatever the community wants: alternatives to drug addiction, peace, gratitude, homelessness, autism. Here are a few short videos and a website. I'm glad to send more detailed instructions if you are interested.</div>
<div>The Seasons of Hope Singing Tree, made with formerly homeless youth: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-bOZpVQew" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-bOZpVQew</a></div>
<div>The Redwood Singing Tree of Biodiversity: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBdjnoFbiQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBdjnoFbiQ</a></div>
<div>The Singing Trees at Bioneers 2010: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBdjnoFbiQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBdjnoFbiQ</a></div>
<div>Please check out other collaborative mural structures under projects at this website: <a href="http://www.unitythroughcreativity.net/?page_id=1849" target="_blank">http://www.unitythroughcreativity.net/?page_id=1849</a></div>
<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Laurie</div>
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<div><span>If you would like to work with improvised theatre, there are ton of resources out there. You might try starting with The Applied Improvisation Network and going from there… </span><a href="http://appliedimprov.ning.com/" target="_blank">http://appliedimprov.ning.com</a><div>Also, there is a playback theatre group in Madison, WI near you that will help you put together a collective story. Playback is an incredible way to involved everyone in a collaboration…</div>
<div><a href="http://www.madstage.com/companies/playback.html" target="_blank">http://www.madstage.com/companies/playback.html</a></div>
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<div><span>Playback Theater is doing wonderful work in Pittsburgh, PA, too.</span><div><div class="adm"><div id="q_13cf3ac6e721b46a_1" class="ajR h4">Laurie</div>
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<div class="ajR h4"><span>Hi Thea,</span><div>You might contact Beth Mount - at <a href="http://www.capacityworks.com/" target="_blank">Graphic Futures</a> or Molly Lieberman of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loop-It-Up-Savannah-of-the-West-Broad-Street-YMCA/127706673992569" target="_blank">Loop it Up Savannah</a><br/><br/></div>
<div>Both women work with groups to create story quilts that reflect the values and stories that guide our lives and work.</div>
<div>Their work is awesome! and a really community builder too.</div>
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<div><span>Thea -- I like your question and the responses it is evoking here.</span><div>I like it in particular because I think of conversation as one of the modalities that creates connection for people. A good question. A good story. A good decision.</div>
<div>The conversation is important, but there are many other ways that create added shared identity. Some of it is play. Some of it is art. Some of it is games. I don't think of these as "fillers." Rather, depending on the group, some essential ways to connect. When joined in with deliberate conversation it can be fantastic.</div>
<div>Good luck.</div>
<div>Tenneson</div>
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<div><span>Thank you Juanita, Rosa and Teresa. </span><div><span> </span></div>
<div><span>I have been a big fan of yours for years, Juanita, ever since I met Shariff Abdullah at an IONS conference in 1999 and learned about you and the World Cafe. I came home to rural Virginia and unleashed my high school art students on holding World Cafes in conjunction with all-inclusive art projects that helped transform the school. The kids loved generating questions, decorating the cafeteria with table cloths and flowers and inviting their peers to sit with someone outside of their clique. This small rural community (Washington, VA) is where I made the first 16' x 8' Singing Tree with 1000 kids - public schoolers, private schoolers and homeschoolers in a divided community. Thirteen years later, many of those public schoolers, private schoolers and homeschoolers are still connected on FB and holiday visits, though they have different political views, are in all parts of the world, some in the military, some still in rural Virginia with children, some getting PHD's. Without your knowing it, your vision enriched the lives of strangers. This is the beauty of the work of aoh. </span></div>
<p>Laurie</p>
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<div>And art, creativity or simple visualization can help a small or large group when they felt themselve in the critical phase of diverge, when they realize their quite extremely different attitudes in just waiting the visual facilitator finishing his little, coloured comments. Art and visual can help groups breathing and find their mindfulness.</div>
<div>Daniel</div>
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</div> Why it is called the ART of hosting and not the TECHNIQUES of hosting...tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-01-07:4134568:Topic:708482013-01-07T09:59:35.070ZRia Baeckhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p><strong><em>written by Michele, as invitation for an AoH training in Montréal:</em></strong></p>
<p>Why it's called the ART of hosting and not the TECHNIQUES of hosting.... A full blog post is needed on this, but I wanted to respond to a question I'm hearing from many people - "If I already know how to do a World Cafe or an Open Space forum, why do I need to pay for this training?" There are several answers to this. <br></br> <br></br> * First, hosting is a personal practice, like a martial art.…</p>
<p><strong><em>written by Michele, as invitation for an AoH training in Montréal:</em></strong></p>
<p>Why it's called the ART of hosting and not the TECHNIQUES of hosting.... A full blog post is needed on this, but I wanted to respond to a question I'm hearing from many people - "If I already know how to do a World Cafe or an Open Space forum, why do I need to pay for this training?" There are several answers to this. <br/> <br/> * First, hosting is a personal practice, like a martial art. It's a never-ending process of deepening and unfolding. This event will be like a dojo, with deeply experienced masters supporting us. <br/> <br/> * Second, we are gathering to connect and grow a community of practice so that a culture of hosting can spread across the region. I believe such a culture is vitally needed here, and everywhere. <br/> <br/> * Third, the beginning of the year is a perfect time to pause in a beautiful setting, surrounded by kind-hearted people, to envision what we want for the coming year. <br/> <br/> There are more reasons, but these are at the top of my list. I'll be very happy to see you there!</p> harvesting online conversation threads?tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-11-16:4134568:Topic:437062011-11-16T20:31:22.432ZRaffi Aftandelianhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RaffiAftandelian
<p>Friends, I'm assisting with Occupy Cafe, an online space for conversation on the Occupy Movement.</p>
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<p>Might you have any thoughts on Ben Roberts's question below?</p>
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<p>Thanks much,</p>
<p>Raffi</p>
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<p>From: Ben Roberts [mailto:ben@occupycafe.org] <br></br>Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 6:00 PM<br></br>To: 'NCDD-DISCUSSION@LISTS.THATAWAY.ORG'<br></br>Subject: Harvesting Online Conversations<br></br><br></br>[Cross posted to the World Cafe Online Community Art of Harvesting…</p>
<p>Friends, I'm assisting with Occupy Cafe, an online space for conversation on the Occupy Movement.</p>
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<p>Might you have any thoughts on Ben Roberts's question below?</p>
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<p>Thanks much,</p>
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<p>From: Ben Roberts [mailto:ben@occupycafe.org] <br/>Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 6:00 PM<br/>To: 'NCDD-DISCUSSION@LISTS.THATAWAY.ORG'<br/>Subject: Harvesting Online Conversations<br/><br/>[Cross posted to the World Cafe Online Community Art of Harvesting Group]<br/><br/> <br/><br/>How might the insights and successes emerging from our experience with structured dialogic processes be applied to the more free-wheeling and disjointed realm of "asynchronous" online conversations?<br/><br/>I am referring to the comment streams that are ubiquitous on the internet, including list-serve discussions just like this one. A particularly juicy example is this lively, complex and at times heated exchange on the topic of "A New Economy" from the forum of "Occupy Cafe" (where I'm spending most of my time these days and I again invite you all to come play as well!). <br/><br/>I see exciting opportunities to develop new processes for making meaning out of these threads. So often, there is great energy in them, but the format--a string of sequential or nested posts-- fights against one's ability to capture the deeper meaning of what is emerging, let alone to clearly perceive the range of basic ideas being presented. <br/><br/>Ironically, the more energy there is in a thread--the more posts there are, and the longer and more involved they become, the more that emotional charge develops among the participants -- the harder it gets for someone coming in for the first time to grasp the whole and find an entry point. <br/><br/>I have some ideas for software that can help to address this, as do some others here, I know. Meanwhile, I think that it might be possible to create some simple protocols that would allow any individual or (preferably) small group of people who have been in an online thread to produce a harvest that captures both essential content and the deeper dynamics of what is moving through the conversation.<br/><br/>I also think that this process of harvesting will provide an extra layer of value for those who participate in it, as they connect with one another and shift their perspective from participant to one who is caring for the whole.<br/><br/>I have created a group at <a href="http://www.OccupyCafe.org">www.OccupyCafe.org</a> where we will experiment with such processes, and would love to have some members of this community join me in this endeavor. In addition, we can use this thread for a more general discussion on the ways that this kind of harvesting might be done. <br/><br/>I am especially interested in processes that can easily be implemented by a group of typical participants, as opposed to things that might require more advanced skills/training, such as graphic recording. That way they can scale up to meet the needs of very large groups such as one often finds on the web.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>Cheers,<br/><br/>Ben<br/><br/> <br/><br/>Ben Roberts<br/><br/>Occupy Cafe Steward<br/><br/><a href="http://www.OccupyCafe.org">www.OccupyCafe.org</a><br/><br/></p> Art of Harvesting training - Oct.'11tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-11-05:4134568:Topic:429022011-11-05T22:53:08.676ZRia Baeckhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
Another Posterous site where you can find a beautiful description of what harvesting is all about + some stories, pictures etc. <a href="http://aofh2011.posterous.com/" target="_blank">Click here</a>.
Another Posterous site where you can find a beautiful description of what harvesting is all about + some stories, pictures etc. <a href="http://aofh2011.posterous.com/" target="_blank">Click here</a>.