Hello spirits from the Art of Hosting that took place on Bowen Island. I posted a few offerings from our time together on my profile's blog: http://artofhosting.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0br2gqsgj8b19

Look forward to staying connected and in community with you all.

Thanks for setting this up! Does anyone have Catherine's contact info? We forgot to trade and she's not on the main list.

Hello Amanda - thanks for starting this group and nice job on the media harvest that you prepared!

Thanks Mike and Jay.

Maybe email Caitlin and see if she can send out the updated contact info?

Amanda -- thanks for the further reflections on 100 Year-Old Self.

A couple of years ago I worked with the Navajo people (with Chris, Teresa, and our friend Roq, Kim's husband). We did an exercise in which I heard this voice of "you are the harvest." It was the voice of the "wise one" within.

A blog post if you'd like to peruse is here.

Hello all, I am not really a member of your group, but as a host of this online space I want to read and follow what is going on. Keep sharing for others to learn! Thanks.

Thank you for sharing that Tenneson; I didn't want your post to end! And the pictures... I could feel the energy from the photos...

Welcome Ria!

heyja, same for me, i wasn't part on Bowen Island but can feel the powerful and inspiring ripples this event took...
as i want to keep learning about creating useful and enjoyable online spaces i'd love to hear how the architecture of this online community could be improved in your sense Amanda and others - is a group the right piece of architecture to honor the needs of a local AoH gathering? how could it be even more useful and attractive to people?

Benjamin! RE: online<->onlife integration: I would like intentional harvesting for online presentation, with a focus on rich media (video, photos, audio) So the harvesting team could include a web ambassador who does her harvesting specifically for presenting on the web. Maybe this means taking little video snippets of each person. What amanda's done with the prezi is a great example of weaving multiple forms of media into one presentation.

Also, some mobile/tweet/SMS channel where people can easily post their insights throughout the day, and others can see them. We develop shared vocabularies in deep gatherings, and you can say a lot more when you have already established a wisdom language.

We could just create hashtags for different conversations, and have an asynchronous world cafe to continue gathering the collective intelligence and creating a shared vocabulary.

I'm just getting acquainted with social media, Jay, but this sounds very interesting. I'm interested to learn more. One of my goals is not only to be more connected when with others in hosting spaces but also to find a meaningful way to stay connected when apart, as well.

Jay those are some great ideas. And thanks Benjamin for inquiring about the architecture of this community. It is too soon for me to comment on that - I'm thrilled that this space exists and hope to do whatever I can to build community. One note though (and this might have just been me), but the AoH org site offers a link to an online community site that is different from this one (see here at the bottom). If it weren't for Chris Corrigan mentioning this ning site I wouldn't have known it existed.