D&D over for another year

We closed up on Monday lunchtime. It's Wednesday lunchtime now, but I'm only just getting back to the keyboard. It's such a stimulating experience to be in a creative room of diverse souls for two-and-a-half days. Even more intense than SteemFest!

So on Saturday I made dolls and talked to men about growing up. Which perhaps sounds odd when you put it like that... it made sense at the time!

On Sunday morning, I started off in "Your life is a work of art" a really interesting session called by Elspeth Murray, who's written a report already. I called another session: "What's in your Myth Stack?" (you'll also have to wait to hear the full explanation of what on earth that means). And in between I wandered and listened in on many others. There's always something interesting to hear or someone to connect with and if you don't feel like it you can walk away.

The most pleasant surprise for me was that among the accessibility provisions was a Silent Room - not just a quiet room (the sort of thing that can easily turn into a quiet-ish chat space) but Silence! It was also dark and comfortably furnished. I spent a good while decompressing in there. (btw the was also a Stim Room for those on the other end of the stimulation sensitivity spectrum).

Then on Monday, I went with the intention of spending the last morning collecting my notes and writing about the experience, but found that there were far too many interesting sessions called. I went to something about the future of tech and theatre and babbled on about Steem and decentralisation for theatre-makers and audiences alike. Then there was a feedback session on the accessiblity provision (but also how to fund it in future) - I chipped in on the funding that it might be an idea to look at a cryptocurrency for D&D, which got some wide-eyed and interested responses. I then took that thought over to another group that was thinking about using Open Space to distribute a pot of money (basically, everyone who comes puts in a fiver and then the work of the event is to allocate that money to something) - they liked the idea of calling it a D&D-dollar less than the other group but it sparked some interesting thoughts about the magic of money.

And then it was into the closing circle and off into the world until the next time.