@meansinfinity @NickiEndres (my co-captain on the HMS Get Shit Done) is also hosting a handful of 'ship it DAYS' this month in case you're looking for an opportunity to get a mini taste of the full event. check it out:

the peer productivity train is seriously Berlin is popping off in Berlin with @meansinfinity's latest LFG club at a cosy coworking cafe - folks are blasting through dusty old tasks, lifting the weight of years by committing to the bit together! what could 10 days together do???.

i don't think i've ever had a more fitting promo photo for an event 😁.this aug i'm hosting Ship It Week straight after the Microsolidarity summer camp, rounding up all the homies currently on the get shit done (with your pals) train .still got a space for ya!.

@exgenesis and then there are some central spaces where everyone mingles, like big hangout lounges, a marketplace, or dance floors. a kaleidoscope of tribes and social experiments.

and @exgenesis has a camp for Xiqweek vibes which represents something special about the cultural gifts they have to offer.

and the MiSo folks have their camp space and share loads of stuff about structures for belonging etc.

we take over a giant space for thousands of us to create a week long mega village. except it's split up into little camps from different cultures. so the TREEWEEK folks have their space and their offering is to plant a tree and 'be scaffolding for love'.

noticing a trend that many tpot camps and microsolidarity camps aren't filling up as much as last year(s). have we just overloaded on the number of camps on offer?. which made me wonder - maybe next year is the year of the Galactic Federation of Tribes.

@dismaien the group i was hosting recently had a tendency towards rowdy banter and humorous quips. it was a growth edge to know when to let this energy lift the group, and when to step in to welcome more presence, especially when we were entering more sensitive terrain.

@dismaien this yr i got certified in emotional detox massage. i learnt to attend to how emotionally aroused the person is - understimulation causes sleep, overstimulation puts people out of their window of tolerance and into dissociation. i found i could apply this to hosting a group too.

@dismaien a harvest turns a conversation into a learning opportunity.don’t skip a harvest, especially in an emergent context.a harvest isn’t just about next steps - it’s about digesting and making sense of what emerged.the harvest is the outward breath, the convergence of the exploration.

@dismaien hadn’t realised that the full title of the Art of Hosting is the ‘Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter’.The harvesting part hit me in a good way - i realised i often skip past and undervalue this piece. it's the bit that gets dropped when we run out of time.

@dismaien creating a solid container for inquiry can't be underestimated. early on in the training we were exploring nervous system regulation and someone said we're exploring topics that would usually be quite overstimulating, but the clear hosting helped them stay open and engaged.

@dismaien sharing about it here also helped .

@dismaien hosting in this way meant that actually some of my own opinions and beliefs on my facilitation content (about communication and conflict transformation) were challenged. so it was great to have a co-facilitator to help me digest some inner tensions that came up for me afterwards.

@dismaien while it was important for me to create a solid container for inquiry with a clear series of questions, prompts and practices, my growth edge was to let them discover the answers that were important to their team vs push for the outcomes that i thought were important.

@dismaien well actually it did. and those were some of the most insightful and engaging moments. in retrospect, without knowing their group beforehand, i was more likely to 'fail' by assuming i knew what they needed to learn and sharing a whole load of theory and content.

@dismaien it might have felt risky to leave so much learning up to chance - what if they didn't get the point i was hoping they'd land on from the practice? what if the conversation went on an unexpected tangent?.

@dismaien the last training i ran was the most engaging one ive ran in a while. ppl were rarely in the same chair for more than 15 minutes. the learnings were practice-first rather than theory-first. the theory came from them, not me. that meant the group didn't just learn; they connected.

@dismaien i learnt how helpful it is to capture conversation and practice insights visibly in the room- by the end of my last facilitation job we had posters filled with sticky notes of ideas and reflections hung around the room, reminding participants of their discoveries.