id: art-of-hosting-harvest
title: Art of Hosting Harvest
description: >-
  A practice from the Art of Hosting community for collectively capturing
  the "harvest" — insights, decisions, patterns — of a gathering in a form
  that can travel to those not present. Developed by practitioners of
  participatory facilitation including Toke Paludan-Müller and Monica
  Nissén.
source: Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter
source_url: https://artofhosting.org/
tags: [art-of-hosting, harvest, documentation, facilitation]
forked_from: null
image: null
steps:
  - headline: Name a harvest team
    description: >-
      Before the gathering, a small team is named to steward the harvest,
      with responsibility for capturing and shaping what emerges.
  - headline: Capture in multiple forms
    description: >-
      The team captures the gathering in words, images, graphic recordings,
      and photos, attending to patterns as well as conclusions.
  - headline: Share at intervals
    description: >-
      The harvest is shared back to the group at intervals, so participants
      see what is being captured and can correct or add to it.
  - headline: Shape for those absent
    description: >-
      The team shapes the harvest for those who were not present — a
      report, a story, a visual — so the gathering's learning can travel.
  - headline: Publish and offer
    description: >-
      The harvest is published or offered to the wider community, with
      attribution to the contributors and an invitation to build on it.
outcome: >-
  The gathering's insights and patterns are captured in a form that can
  travel to those not present, extending the work beyond the room.
practice: >-
  Harvest is not minutes. It is the meaning made visible. Choose forms
  that fit the audience — a graphic recording may carry more than a
  report for some communities.