Day 2 – Sensing, deepening roots &

trying out new things

 

Day Flow

  • Start & Welcome
  • Feed Forward & Check in
  • Story Cafe
  • Harvest Story Cafe
  • Collective Mindmapping
  • 4-Fold Harvesting Practice
  • SOLO
  • Harvest SOLO Plenary
  • Funky Harvest Fish Bowl
  • Revisiting Design From Harvest
  • Village News
  • Check out
  • Closing

 

Day 2 invited participants to move beyond understanding harvesting as a method, and into experiencing it as a living practice.

The day began with feedforward conversations and collective drawing, creating space to reflect on what had already shifted and what participants wanted to explore more deeply. Through Story Café and PNI, harvesting became a way of sensemaking together, not only collecting reflections, but noticing patterns, meaning, and emergence across stories.

As the day unfolded, participants explored the Four Fold Harvesting Practice: harvesting self, being harvested, harvesting conversations that matter, and learning as a community of practice. These conversations expanded harvesting from a skill into a relationship with self, others, and collective learning.

In the afternoon, silence became part of the practice. Participants went solo, spending time alone without conversation, paying attention to their surroundings, senses, and inner questions. What emerged later in the circle were small but vivid observations: colours, sounds, textures, feelings, and qualities that somehow carried meaning.

The Funky Harvest Fishbowl deepened the inquiry further through dialogue and reflection around meaningful harvesting experiences. Participants listened, reflected, sketched, and sensed together, gradually building a richer understanding of what allows harvesting to become alive and transformative.

By the end of the day, harvesting no longer felt limited to documentation or outputs.
It began to feel like a way of paying attention, making meaning together, and sensing what wants to grow within a community.

Opening & First check-in

Read more: Invitation (p.11 – Practice Guide)

Poster Calling question AoH Taiwan 2024

Calling question

Principles of being together

Circle Way practices

Two complimentary worldviews & the Chaordic Path

Read more: Living Systems – Worldviews (p.21) & Chaordic Path (p.13) – Practice Guide

Teach: Living systems thinking & mechanistic thinking (by Yurie Makihara)

Teach: the Chaordic Path (by Yurie Makihara)

Story Trio / Triad

Read more: Storytelling Trio (p.41 – Practice Guide)

Story trio structure

Storytelling question

Harvest

Art of Harvesting (coaching)

Read more: HARVESTING (p.71 – Practice Guide)

Layers of harvesting: when planning a harvest, we can think on different levels (not just the outcomes for participants)

Harvest quadrants for this training

Collective – Individual and Tangible – Intangible

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