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Summary of Day 3 |
Teach: 8 Breath Practice
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On Saturday we gathered at 9.30 and Maaike started the day by reading a poem which invited us to think about how we can live our life with purpose. Our check in was a brief mindfulness practice lead by Phoebe. This provided us with some space to arrive and gather our attention before beginning the day’s activities. Then Linda talked us through the ‘8 Breaths’ of process design, which covered eight key stages to work through when you’re holding an event or a process. After a break we then moved into the main focus of the day, the Design Lab, where nine Project Holders were given the opportunity to ask for help for their individual projects. The rest of the group were given the chance to practice generosity and offer help as Co-designers. Max set the scene with a story from his experiences in a refugee camp in Greece, which illustrated the power of asking for help. Nine design labs were called School governance - how can we have stronger community engagement Design a process for climate change in Tanzania Here There and Everywhere - Theatre for everyone Design of a new festival UniBus - going on tour with students and youth culture Young Happy Minds - tools to flourish Democracy Lab - co producing a new constitution Designing Proceses for collective entrepreneurship New ways to deliver public services The design time was followed by a Peer Coaching session and then a brief feedback and appreciation from Co-designers and Hosts. With our three days together coming to an end, we then moved into the Meta Harvest. Everyone was invited to spend some time reflecting on their experience, writing in their journals or simply sitting quietly for a few moments. Without talking and with music playing, we were invited to walk around the room and look at all the harvested material on the walls, taking photos and adding comments. We returned to the circle and all chose a stone from the middle of the circle. We passed the stones around the group, charging them with positive energy to take out into the world. We finished with a final check out - a haka, lead by Linda. |
Gallery Walk
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As the Art of Hosting 2017 drew to a close the meta-harvest team created the space for a 10 minute gallery walk. Participants were invited to walk around the space in silence - reflecting on the harvests from the 3 days, adding feelings and experiences to the harvest wall and notes to other participants on post-its stuck on to the peer drawn portraits from the arrival session.
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Ode To StarlingsThere was once Brightonian starling,
Who loved hosting her flock like a darling. With 12 cases of beer She held space on the pier While the flock all sang "thanks be to Carling" James Ede :) |
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