How do I make friends w/ SKool? A bit of a daily update here, anyone? It's Wednesday August 6th, 2025 and it's a great ST Day! At this point it's 5:30pm. I'm in DaTong Louisa. I've just found a free parking spot after driving back from 24 hours in Kaohsiung. Yesterday I drove with Joe, who's still there through Friday morning - last I heard. Me - After dropping Joe off, I searched the best rated Indian Restaurant in Kaohsiung. Curiously it was also the least expensive (huh?). Turns out it's on a university student food street. Owners returned to Taiwan from 30+ years in South Africa and boss learned Indian cooking from friends, then modified it to be less oily. It was amazing. So simple. So nice! The best mango lassi I've ever had, for some inexplicable reason. Then hotel rest. Today: - as soon as I looked at my phone I saw I missed an appointment w/ Samu and Majo. (Oh dear! I must initiate them to my strange ways of working sooner rather than later. Blush, but ... necessary.) - a WhatsApp hour with Karla Kadlec on an offshore Vancouver island. She wants to visit for her 50th birthday in December. We're ideating. How might that happen "the Studio Tainan way?" - 10 minutes with my mom in SW New York State - her granddaughter and 2 great grandsons visited a couple days this week before traveling back to Texas - drove to a coffee shop near today's work - arrived early to set up a plan on the whiteboard so when sponsors entered we could use the format to hold their key points - We agreed I was coming for 1 90min. action learning. That was fantastic. AND they then requested an extra 2.5 hours to continue the work. - Reflection from owners at the end: You changed our company's culture today. - me: it was today, plus 4 years of ground work. ^_^ But I'll take the fantastic feedback. As this is my 1st post I'll throw in a brainstorm. Focus Question: What are the first 20 projects and experiments currently hosted by ST? - Ongoing community care - Welcome new people to the community - this week DeYing (Tainan Real Estate wizard!) - Samu & Majo's Volunteering 3-week (late August) Met on the same platform as Robin & Anastasia - Doula'ing Dimi ^_^ She's thriving, as apparently is their little girl. - Iterating 1-month personal retreats in a group field (next step - offer 6 mo and 12 mo options) - End of September 2.5 day Touch of Presence retreat -- Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In Tainan. - DaTong rental (Sunday handing back the right-hand side) - GuiRen rental (Introductory course workshop last month was ... ideal) - Touch of Presence workshops, sessions, training and learning community - Quick Cranial Touch (QCT) pop-ups, workshop, learning community - AR Facilitation practice community & training - Deep check-in practice group - Skool platform (now!) @ USD 9$/mo until the 99$ package makes sense - Joe S's 1-month retreat (he flies back on Saturday afternoon) - The 1 business client Jane serves - Experiment: Jane developing an Action Learning VideoAsk tool - Supporting the future of the Farm - Supporting the future of the Keelung House - Holding the vision: Be a food forest nursery (when we get country land to use) - Holding the vision: Authentic Relating community Taiwan-wide - Holding the vision: Conversation Cafe community Taiwan-wide - Holding the vision: Host retreat space in nature - Ongoing 1-yr PSPs and irregular WAVEs etc. - Irregular Action Learning, Case Clinic, Deep Check-in's, All Topic Days for our community

Friday. Joe's final full day. We spent the morning 8:30 to 12:00 checking in, telling stories, doing our 2nd practice of Deep Check-in, welcoming James into the dialogue.. Rich, rich, rich. Me ... I had veggie lunch alone to decompress. Then 1 to 2 met with ace realtor DeYing to work out our plan to sell the Keelung house, then sign the contract, and consider when we could see the 2 farmland houses she's selling. After, I cleaned the 5-2 laundry area and moved the last 2 items (closet to "B", after current furniture moved out). At 5 the management woman dropped by to tell me where washing machines and fridges go. Whew. Then, farewell dinner for Joe. Gentle day of deep shifts. Tomorrow - moving fridges and washing machine. - Joe's midday flight - Coffee with business clients - Home to rest.