Retrospective for the Foodsharing Festival Meeting Kanthaus
Participants: Doug, Nick, Cille, Mona, Max, Flo, Birta, Berndt, Tina, Matthias, Silvan, x, y. Facilitator: Doug
The Foodsharing Festival Meeting was the first planned event at Kanthaus for an external group. Getting feedback was therefore deemed to be particularly relevant.
- Intro: a brief description of retrospective purpose and theory, a wish for constructive/non-judgemental setting and a reading of 'the Prime Directive'.
- Planetary orbit game: everyone was first asked to silently select another person, then to circle that person 3 times. Chaos! Fun! Wahh!
- Triangular graph: three corners of the room were marked as 'Kanthaus', 'Foodsharing Festivals Meeting' and 'Personal/Other.' People were asked to orient themselves in the room according to how much time they felt they spent on those topics.
- Splitting into small groups: 3 smaller groups were formed by numbering in a spiral from the outside.
- Individual reflection: everyone was asked to reflect on the questions "What was liked?', 'What wasn't liked?', and 'What would have been liked?' and recorde their answers on paper.
- Small group reflection: Individuals were invited to discuss similarities and differences between their individual reflections.
- Reflection summary: everyone re-grouped and then a spokesperson for each group summarised the outstanding points which were–
- What was liked?
- The party. The decoration, music and energy.
- Having AC power the whole time.
- A friendly and energetic atmosphere.
- Amazing food and people who make food.
- What wasn't liked?
- The back-door to 22 being so often closed and with so few keys.
- Confusion of sleeping rooms and where people are meant to sleep.
- Difficult to find peace/focus/do external work.
- Too much noise in/around sleeping rooms whilst people trying to sleep.
- What would have been liked?
- More personal talks.
- Group walk outside.
- A bit more structure.
- Round of appreciation: individuals that wanted to gave appreciation to individuals, events, phenomena, etc.