After AoHoAoH: The ongoing harvest

Thank you Eric

Unfortunately it looks like I will not be able to make it to Art of harvesting in Greece this time due to other commitments....
but i will participate on ENexus in stead

- toke

Hi all,

I recently had great email exchanges with Helen about the Integral approch.

I am wondering what that has to do with the Art of Harvesting....

All the best,

Carsten 

 

Hello Erik,

I guess you are on the Art of Hosting email list... it is a good idea probably to send these notes also through that channel and refer people to this forum... you might get interest from other people maybe! 

Participants: Augusto Cuginotti, Erik Mathijs, Helen Titchen Beeth, Mark van Onna, Toke Møller

Following the ‘Celtic Tarot Constellation’, the group in the ‘visible’ (Erik, Augusto and Mark) talked about their passion to make bridges to the outside world, to ‘translate’, to connect. So Erik posted an Open Space session to which also Toke showed up. Many expressed their interest, also for a dynamic on-line version (Simone).

Toke shared that the idea of a book has been around for several years, but that now the time seems to be ripe: the stake is in the ground! So, what is the wise pattern of an AoH Field book?

We first explored the purpose of the book: for whom and why will it be written? There was a clear sense that the book can be written for both AoH practicioners and others: a wider audience, potential clients, people using other practices, etc. The book is to create clarity and more entrances, to create more ‘credibility’ with potential clients, to create bridges, to spread out and invite in. But in the end reading the book should be an experience, it should be a magic book, it should host the reader. It should provide a map of the many doorways onto the learning space, that is human experience.

But how do you translate the DNA of our experience into form?

The book should use quotes, photos, poetry, questions, stories, interviews—all captured in real moments. It should be simple and clear, but not compromise on content or words. Readers should be able to read the book in many ways: linearly and other ways. A glossary of terminology could be instrumental (Mark volunteers). Concepts can be explained, but should be made alive by stories. Stories could go from hosting yourself, to family, team, organization, city, the world. It should hold pain and joy, both death and emergence. Importantly, the book should not be telling things (like most books do), but it should be inviting, inspring, hosting: the book that hosts more hosting the conservations that matter now in our world.

We then ended with a conversation on practical matters. How to host a book? Editors should host the book writing process for writers, stotry telles, new form givers (e.g., Enexus), people who have hosted, people who have still forgotten. The process should be guided by a sounding board, a group of stewards and elders. Economy and legal matters (copywright, ownership) should be sorted out. What initial investment is needed? The revenues of the book could support the AoH community by fueling a fund.

Helen and Erik stepped in as editors; Mark and Augusto offered to play various roles, including taking part in the sounding part and writing a glossary.

“It will be an incomplete book about not knowing”

Resource: How to Host a Book, A Conversation with Juanita Brown and Jane Brunette, http://shambhalainstitute.org/pdf/how_to_host_a_book.pdf.