Flow of Day 4

  • Meta Harvest
  • Check-in
  • Designing for Wiser Action
  • Closing

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Summary of Day 4
by Janina Sjöström

The fundamental practice in Art of Hosting is the circle practice. The circle practice is the mother of all practices. There are circles within you – and when you become a real practitioner you can feel those circles within your being.

It is the final day and this is how Phil frames our four days of growing and growling together. He talks about the role of the hosts, the stewards, the apprentices, and the importance of the organizing team.

We all continue to be in learning…

And so do we, the participants in the training.

The practice of day four is about Designing for Wiser Action.
My first group has a host with a complicated problem and the group there to support her are complicated people. This creates a challenge for everyone around the table and I learn some really good lessons:
·      Value the resistance.
·      When trying to gain trust in a meeting, share when you don´t know everything.
·      Do not lecture – put the focus instead of what problem is being solved.
·      Find allies in complicated situations.

The second group I join are more focused on supporting the host to explore the possibilities of his project – and a great flow helps the group design a meeting around how to invade and occupy a small castle in Copenhagen with creativity.

Finalizing the practice – there are some tears when the hosts are presenting the outcome of their meetings, tears of happiness and relief. People express their gratitude for the support, for being touched, for people sharing their experience, and they are thankful for the new ideas and new friendships.

I feel seen.
This is what support feels like.
I have my place in my meeting.
It is possible to do work and fall in love with those people.

In the practice of Designing for Wiser Action it becomes very clear to me the importance of framing the purpose of the meeting. No matter which method you use – the question is the answer. Asking the right question to yourself and to your participants is crucial for the success of the outcome. Mary-Alice expressed this during her closure statement:

Be careful of the question you ask, it might open something.

She invites us to keep up our practice and to keep in touch with the community.
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After the powerful manifesto shared by those who were listening deeply to the calling question, a beautiful poem moves us to checkout. We close our eyes, let go of our time together in Karlskrona and I move into a future that looks much brighter than it did when I came here. The last sentence of my story from these four days will be:

Remember to breathe…

Designing for Wiser Action

Bridging holistic and conventional medicine - a better future for natural medicine
Project caller: Olga Hentze
Organization: Holistic Health
I need: to hug the people who have supported me.

Schokolüne or Lünebohne
Project caller: Felix
I need: to bring all that I got in this process together and make sense.

Polymers for the circular economy
Project caller: Gergana Dimitrova
Organization: Fraunhofer
I need: more help! Contact me to figure out together how to work with plastics.

Bridging lack of trust
Project caller: Johan Axell
I need: a steward. Someone who hosts me and motivated me in my process.

Sopact - Social business accelerator, weekly sprints
Project caller: Adrian
Organization: sopact.org
I need: time to condense my insights into action.

The Optimal Country
Project caller: Emelie
Organization: World Values Initiative

Family meeting to bridge diversities
Project caller: Anne
I need: to share with you what I found out about family in general. And to practice non-violent communication with my family members. I want to stay in touch with the people who helped me today.

(Semi)Permanent space for the Danish Burner community
Project caller: Peter Munthe-Kaas
I need: to become safe in my transition from academia to working with a castle.

National Topranner Initiative (Germany)
Project caller: Max Marwede
Organization: Fraunhofer
I need: people to participate in my workshops.

The Gateway Bugs
Project caller: Isabell
I need: to build my confidence to do it.

Pathfinder 2030 - Fast transition to sustainable transport
Project caller: Henrik Ny
Organization: Blekinge Institute of Technology
I need: more helpers! I will draft an invitation and send it out into the networks.

Co-creating a vision
Project caller: Sarah
Organization: [sic!] - students' innovation centre
I need: luck. And that people in Vienna understand.
YIP Alumni Cobudget
Project caller: Lyra and Louisa
Organization: Youth Initiative Program Alumni Network
We need: a space in Sweden for our meeting.

iLean
Project caller: Johan Decoster
I need: more of this!

Experience day of PPM TEAM
Project caller: Saulius and Brgitta
Organization: CSC Baltic
We need: rest and hammock. Guidance on how to move forward with this project.

WandelConnect
Project caller: Leon
Organization: Generation
I need: a co-host to make Basel a better place. Help with inviting.

How to "die" gracefully and constructively?
Project caller: Jessica Enevold
Organization: local high school
I need: a lot of money to pay a team. I need a team.

Wegewerk Team Excursion
Project caller: Juri
I need: time and support.

Scientific Attachèe NS EU connection
Project caller: Martina Desole 
Organization: APRE
I need: help with the check-out and the end of my meeting.

The divide around Dutch December tradition
Project caller: Annabel
I need: help to understand more about privilege. I need more voices and diversity around that topic. And knowledge in working with diversity.

Get that loving feeling
Project caller: Rebecca Wilcay
Organization: RFSU Stockholm
I need: help in stewarding and hosting the process to bring peace into the LGBT community in Stockholm.

The Innovation Workshop 
Project caller: Annie Lindmark
I need: time to process this new input. And to make remake the invitation.

Montessori for every child in training program for teachers
Project caller: Bildanalyse Georgieva
I need: to let go. A question buddy to talk. A host for another meeting in Bulgaria.

Manifesto
​by the Calling Question Harvest Team
  1.  I will be aware of who I am, of my values and where I come from
  2.  I will acknowledge the divisions within me and near me
  3.  I am starting from a place of authenticity as authenticity is the foundation of trust
  4.  I will be aware of the need to bridge the divisions
  5.  I will find the courage to:
  • Not look away
  • Take responsibility
  • Listen to different stories
  • Share my story
  • Take action
  6.  I will make bridging divisions my intentional practice

  And so I invite you to do.

Closing Poem: An Ode to The Hosting Artists
​by Gabriel Neira Voto

Conversations  are our medium of transformation, to see each other before it is too late.
A constant dance of hierarchy and networking, setting trust tentpoles to dismiss the hate.

Are you willing to really listen to me, so I can be and not exist merely?
Ready to learn about me, her and him, not only when you’re curious, but with your learning edge pushed acutely?
Or is it easier without me, her, them? Easier to fear and hate if to your home we travel?
Won’t you cook with what you have? That’s confusion on a higher level!

Doesn't work for me no more. I’m neutral as the swiss fellow.
Come, sit and share. Be you white, red, black, yellow.

We gather with endless possibilities co-sketched.
Ready and willing to sit as one, even in face of the unexpected.
Most valuable currencies of our culture, the stories we share.
We feel warmth and joy, even when the silent is there.

Yes, that’s true, we know nothing about the pigeon's flight norm.
And we can’t really explain why it’s Vatican, corn...corn...corn.

We just want to be as a whole! Why is that so uncanny?
Want to spark bright lights to mean so much for so many.
On the fool's day we designed wise.
And playful frisbees merged with the sunrise

A golden smile reflected in the sea, nourishing our bodies and souls, you and me.
A chain of golden words, tunes of an emerging band;
Tribe dances, deep conexion, an unheard trust in hand.

And so we close this breath collectively, rubber hitting the ground back home.
So eager to do together what we could never do alone. ​