More magic at Rivendell

Rivendell above the fog

Friends -- today I was at Rivendell and the fog was socked in on the channel below. We were in starling sunlight above the pea soup below. I went up on the hill behind the building to photograph it as the elves might have imagined it: floating in the sky above the clouds.

I was there to harvest learnings from a process that I co-lead in Victoria. My partner Lyla Brown and I were facilitating the Aboriginal engagement process for the Victoria Urban Development Agreement.

We used several hosting processes for the work we were doing, culminating in a one day community open space with a half day cafe designed to create strategies for keeping the ideas alive. There is more information and links to photos at my Parking Lot weblog.

My partner and our client decided that we needed to escape to Rivendell to harvest learnings about the process and help to organize our report. As a result of being back in that environment (we used the same room) we were able to get a handle on the heart language that we will use to create the report that conveys the richness of what happened in our work. When that report is finished, I'll post here so you can all have a copy.

At any rate, I thought you might appreciate having this view of Rivendell on a magical November day.