Collective Story Harvest Conversations - The Art of Hosting2024-03-28T16:08:47Zhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/groups/group/forum?groupUrl=collective-story-harvest&feed=yes&xn_auth=noStories on using Collective Story Harvesttag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-01-02:4134568:Topic:708172013-01-02T19:32:34.051ZRia Baeckhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p><em>From the emaillist, September '12:…</em></p>
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<p><em>From the emaillist, September '12:</em></p>
<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western" xml:lang="x-western"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Spent the afternoon today in a collective story harvest process with 25 indigenous nation builders from across the USA. Four stories harvested through five arcs. Last week we did the same with 35 people involved in creating community conversations about immigrant and refugee issues in the USA.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">In both of these Art of Hosting gatherings we used a World Cafe to ask the question along the lines of "what do we need to learn to accelerate our work?" The harvest from the cafe were questions which were worked over by a group to create story arcs that we could take to the story harvest process. Was wonderful to tie the concrete harvest of a Cafe into a learning journey through the story arcs. Highly recommended as a design.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Also today a couple of us were thinking about using CSH as a methodology for working with keynotes in a conference. Imagine sitting at eight person conference tables, with everyone receiving a story arc to harvest. They listen to the keynote, go meet the others who carried the same arcs and then report out their findings to crowd, or just tweet them on a hashtag or something. Would make the worst part of conferences waaaay better.</div>
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</div> Updates on the Collective Story Harvest documenttag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-01-02:4134568:Topic:705192013-01-02T19:29:09.163ZRia Baeckhttps://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p><strong><em>Message from September '12, via the emaillist:</em></strong></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Hello mates!<br></br></b> <br></br> I’m reporting in from the road again, this time from the airport in Chicago. I’ve had many opportunities to catch stories along the journey and this time, I’m here to report in on what’s been happening with the method of <b>Collective Story Harvesting</b>.<br></br> <br></br> We’ve been playing with this method for over…</span></font></p>
<p><strong><em>Message from September '12, via the emaillist:</em></strong></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Hello mates!<br/></b> <br/> I’m reporting in from the road again, this time from the airport in Chicago. I’ve had many opportunities to catch stories along the journey and this time, I’m here to report in on what’s been happening with the method of <b>Collective Story Harvesting</b>.<br/> <br/> We’ve been playing with this method for over two years now, using it in trainings, with clients and in many other gatherings. Attached is the latest version of the document and it now includes:<br/> <br/></span></font></p>
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<li><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A group harvesting one story or set of stories together</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Many stories being harvested simultaneously</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A case study of CSH being used as the key focus for an organisational teambuilding</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Using CSH during a community of practice gathering — all of telling and harvesting stories</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How this method can support and work with other methods<br/></span></font></li>
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<p><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br/> A little “light bedside reading”, we are now weighing in at 19 pages. I have also been collecting all the harvesting arcs I’ve been hearing about to make a database of potential arcs or themes we can all draw on. If you have input to this list, please let me know. There’s a googledoc you can be invited to where your input can be collected. <em>(document is attached below)</em><br/> <br/> <b>The next level of CSH is about to happen.</b> For some time now, I’ve had my eyes set on larger systemic stories that can be of benefit to us all. We — a group of dedicated Danes and two adopted Danes ;-) -- are about to host a grand experiment as we attempt to harvest the story of Denmark going bankrupt in 1813 because we believe this story holds some keys for both Denmark and the world about how to deal with adversity. <i>And you’re invited!</i><br/> <br/> If you have ideas for other systemic stories that could be harvested (the story of Jean Monnet and the European Union is one that’s attracting me, for example), then please let me know. I feel we are about to crack something new and powerful here.<br/> <br/> If you’d like to be involved in an ongoing conversation about storytelling and the Art of Hosting, please join me on this forum conversation:<br/></span></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/storytelling-and-the-art-of-hosting-conversations-that-matter">http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/storytelling-and-the-art-of-hosting-conversations-that-matter</a></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br/> And for more about the power of story, have a look here: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/william_ury.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/william_ury.html</a><br/> <br/> Wishing you deep listening for your stories,<br/> <br/> <font color="#8BB31A"><b>Mary Alice</b></font></span></font></p>