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Activity catalogue
This page collects (possible) activities of the hosting community of practice.
See also: activity mapping
Types of activities
Possible directions:
- Participatory learning, cross-sectorial experiments and creative processes (multistakeholder workshops)
- Multisensory experiences (rituals, celebrations, immersive and participatory artworks)
- Life-changing courses and programmes (personal and professional)
- Retreats (in nature, unique landscapes, as well as cities)
Who initiates the activities?
- 'clients': other individuals, groups, organisations, systems invite us to propose/design and host activities for them
- the community: we design activities as a group and offer different 'packages' (joint project portfolio, see below)
- individual members: each of us can bring our own projects to be supported by the group (either through consultation/advice or collaboration on each other's projects - see the "chest of drawers" or "process design lab" )
Existing activities
Internal
→ Activities we have done so far for the sake of the community itself
- Hosting community gatherings: these are periodic gatherings, aimed at (our own) community development, process design, peer-learning and other exchanges
- Peer-learning, mentoring, coaching (each other)
External
→ Activities we developed together in the past (with two or more hosting members). Some of these might be 'repackaged' as hosting-community offers for different target groups and situations…
Process Facilitation of multi-stakeholder, systemic transition/transformation programmes:
- Workshops and other participatory formats, custom designed for clients (for transition/transformation of larger systems), for example:
- Marine CoLAB (as an example of the “lab” approach)
- Godsheide Futures and Pulse Visiedagen (as examples of “futuring”)
- Luminous Green (as an example of 'unholy alliances')
- …
Training courses:
- Hosting craft, process facilitation training
- Sircle (co-learning space and education)
Dinners and other Meaningful Meals:
- Smoke & Vapour, a silent dinner focusing on ethereal aspects of food and cooking
- …
Nature-related:
- Inner Garden / Viriditas Choir: Inner garden, combining singing and plants (greenhouse/garden choir)
- Arboreal identity, walking and storytelling, discovering the (legal) identity of trees
- …
Hands-on workshops and hackathons:
- …
Cards:
- Patabotanical tarot (in progress)
- Borrowed Scenery (instructions, oracle)
- Doing Nothing
- Lucid Dreaming
Potential activities
Activities that could be developed as 'packages' by the whole hosting community, for different target groups…
Programmes:
Presence and contemplation:
- Life story: e.g. the bardic idea of writing a story or singing, writing a personal prayer, etc.
- Guided meditations (for live sessions at retreats, workshops… and recordings…)
- Spiritual workshops for children
- Life writing (memoirs, blogs, and other ways to reflect on life and transition through writing)
Rituals:
- Seasonal celebrations
- Rites of passage
- …
Training courses:
- Systemic constellation for individuals and larger systems
Food-related:
- Inspiration dinner: tailor-made inspirational dinner where we gather people around a person with a specific idea for a project or another question
- Fascination lunch: a lunch putting together strangers or acquaintances or friends where time is spent listening to each other’s fascinations
- Tailor-made team building exercises around food
Walking:
- Barefoot walk
- Nature coaching
- Walking meditation (silent, guided, with cards)
Other:
- Holding collective healing spaces for “complex” systems (acknowledge threshold phases for teams/groups/organisations)
- Transition weekends for men/women or men and women
- Better food in clinics, hospitals, and other health-related spaces
- Noise pollution (new age in sound - spas, metro, hotels…)
- Morning chorus (Ruben)
- Co-learning community
- …