THE ART OF HOSTING MORECAMBE BAY
  • Feb 2017
    • Day Two
    • Day Three
    • COP July 2017
  • Oct 2017
    • Day Two
    • Day Three
  • Jan 2018 Barrow
    • Day Two
    • Day Three - Community of Practice
  • S Lakes Sept 2018
    • day 2
    • Follow up day
  • CONTACT
  • Art Of Hosting

Day Two  
​Making Sense and Diving into Practice together  

FEED FORWARD AND CHECK IN 

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We began Day Two with a harvest poem from the newly formed harvest team of Sue and Linda  revisiting some of the content of  yesterday.
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     Be Braver
      Keep Calm 
      Stay fascinated
      Feel the need, not know the need
      I need to hear and experience how other people think and feel
      Open up and more more confident
      Recognise self worth
      The older I get the less I know
      Acceptance
      Respect Others
      Appreciate that everyone is doing their best
      Provide the space to listen
      Believe in self
      Let go of the need to know 
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​Then we checked into the day with a question about gratitude.


POWERFUL QUESTIONS 

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 "If I had an hour to solve an urgent problem,  I would spend the first 50 mins working out the right question"​​

Mike offered a little teach on powerful questions and we talked about the  importance of enquiring into the question to see what was really at stake, not just settling with a 'that will do" question.   A good question will stop you in your tracks make you really open up and dig deep.   We played the question game with our own questions and were surprised at how they changed when we really dove into the meaning and purpose of our questions.  ​



OPEN SPACE 

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What are the hot topics for Morecambe Bay that we need to explore right now? 

Round 1. 

Children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing
Important to give voice to children and young people in all decision processes
Whole system approach - 3rd sector AND NHS
Having a trauma influenced approach to our work 
Mental Health Champions being recruited, please join 


Untidiness
There is lots of natural beauty but we don't look after it we tolerate too many big weeds
Need to raise pride and self esteem, show that someone gives a shit 
Education - Enforcement - Media
Beauty surrounds/Health abounds
 

Inequality
​How to protect assets from gentrification 
Need a network of agencies to find out what and where 
Housing is a big issue, change comes form grass roots, need to give voice to community 


Housing
poor stock, hidden issues of couch surfing 
​There are services but the community has no voice in this 
Should find out more about experiences of landlords and services provided
Things are done to and not with people 


Do you like cake?
​Food helps to bring people together, it's a leveller and and entrance
We all love cake bring it to more meetings 
Good for bonding and good for your heart


Who and what helps me deliver my job ?
self worth, in the VCS we do it free and getting burnt out is possible
Are our skills valued?  I don't get much support
Lets talk more about us and them  



Round 2

Elderly Care
Our culture is family units, but the elderly are often outside of families
Caring profession is seen as lower class job, but a vocation for some
Can we connect young and old ( ie by Cinema sessions - Alex ) 


Making community led initiatives more sustainable
Space, location, access to buildings
It's vision and purpose that helps us succeed
Statutory services might help with sustainability 


What do people want to do with this?
Too much talking, need some action 
​It's important to start small, you might be the only one to do it 
Need to manage risk 


Parental responsibilities
​Not just a challenge in Morecambe
Postive role models and support needed
Parents not enjoying their children has a knock on effect 


Adult Literacy
Disempowering for employment, skills at work issue
% of people illiterate in the criminal justice system
Making assumptions
Fees will make it prohibitive 

 
Children School readiness
Understanding the foundation stage as a foundation 
Top down pressures and expectations do not match up
​Environments are changing for children, sit still and don't move no longer appropriate 



PROCESS DESIGN LAB

Linda and Andy offered a teach about how to design a good process.  They offered a model of how groups work, first they come up with lots of ideas, this is divergence.  Often people want to rush to solutions, but helping groups to stay in the middle space of emergence ( groan zone or grown zone ) is important.  You can design for action or convergence when the time is ready.  Think about the need and the purpose and really take some time to wrestle with this and come up with a good question that guides the conversation.  Make the invitation a juicy one and choose the right process to hold the conversation. Think about what you want to harvest and what information you want to collect and how you will show the results.  How can you involve more people in the design and the harvest and make it truly participatory ?  
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This session invited people who had specific projects they wanted some help from the rest of us on to describe what they were doing and what help they were looking for.  6 projects put themselves forward and each of us chose a group to work with, offering advice and asking questions to help fill in the design template. Finally each of the project hosts reported back what had been really useful contributions and what their next steps were. 


Photos from day 2 

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  • Feb 2017
    • Day Two
    • Day Three
    • COP July 2017
  • Oct 2017
    • Day Two
    • Day Three
  • Jan 2018 Barrow
    • Day Two
    • Day Three - Community of Practice
  • S Lakes Sept 2018
    • day 2
    • Follow up day
  • CONTACT
  • Art Of Hosting