The five nights
Tap a day.
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
- Day 5
- Day 6
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- Morning Van from Chiang Rai airport
- Afternoon Tok sen massage
- Evening White-thread welcome, khantoke dinner
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- Morning Intervision
- Afternoon Forage the forest with a Lahu guide
- Evening Cook what you found
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- Morning Action learning
- Afternoon Dye indigo cloth
- Evening Longtail boat on the Mekong at sunset
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- Morning Troika and Forum
- Afternoon Make a Lanna lantern
- Evening Dinner under your lanterns, a Lanna horoscope
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- Dawn Sunrise balloon, or a walk in the tea hills
- Morning Clearness committee
- Afternoon Tea and hill coffee, cut a tung flag
- Evening Fire, stars, quiet
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- Dawn Dawn alms, if you like
- Morning Write the agreements, sign them
- Afternoon Lunch, fly home
Mornings: questions first
Before you come: a private talk with each member.
day 2
Intervision
First round: only questions.
Dutch peer consulting
day 3
Action learning
One real problem. You speak only to answer a question.
Reg Revans
day 4
Troika
Say it. Turn your back. Listen.
Liberating Structures
day 4
Forum
Share what happened to you. No advice.
CEO forums
day 5
Clearness committee
Only questions. You choose what to answer.
a Quaker practice
day 6
Agreements
Who decides what. Written. Signed.
your board
Try Troika at your next meeting
Three people. Twelve minutes.
- 2 minSay your problem
- 2 minThey ask. You answer.
- 5 minTurn your back. They talk. You listen.
- 3 minTurn around. Say what helped.
Done. Now picture five mornings of this.
Little things
Tap to fill your basket.
A suite each, in the hills
- Bangkok to Chiang Rai: 1 h 20 by air
- Airport to the resort: about 45 minutes by van
- A resort in the hills, a suite each
- Room price under the US government travel limit for Chiang Rai, US$129 a night
Price
a board of 8 to 14, five nights
Nonprofits, foundations, schools
฿600,000
Pilot board, January 2027: ฿400,000
Companies and family firms
฿800,000
Pilot board, January 2027: ฿600,000
Rooms and meals: the resort bills you, about ฿38,000 a person.
Hongdam's fee moves with demand.
Questions?
What is in it
- A private talk with each member before you come
- A facilitator for five mornings; NaN, who runs Hongdam, hosts
- Every workshop and its materials
- A van with a driver all week
- Your agreements typed within 5 days, a video check-in at 60 days, the same questions again at 6 months
Two invoices
The resort bills rooms and meals. Hongdam (motdang.net Co., Ltd.) bills the retreat. Tax invoices in Thai and English.
Languages
English or Thai. An interpreter for a mixed board.
Photos and methods
- misty mountains at dawn, Phu Chi Fa (Chiang Rai): PONGSATHORNCH09041980, CC BY-SA 4.0
- bamboo shoots on banana leaf at a northern Thai market: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 4.0
- wild mushrooms (het pluak, termite mushrooms) on banana leaf at a market: Renaudsechet, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lanna starters plate: nam phrik ong, kaeng hang le, nam phrik num, sai ua, pork rinds, vegetables: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 3.0
- mo hom indigo-dyed shirt: 19thronin, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lanna tung (woven cloth flags) at a temple: Iudexvivorum, CC0
- hanging Lanna paper lanterns (khom khwaen) lit at night: Random username 083794703875938, CC0
- kratip khao (woven bamboo sticky-rice baskets): Mattes, Public domain
- Royal Thai Lanna massage, therapist guiding a stretch (not a tok sen hammer photo): Sangtawansun, CC BY-SA 4.0
- tea terraces at Choui Fong plantation: Pixabay user Denchai, CC0
- hot-air balloons at the Singha Park International Balloon Fiesta: Natthaphong Kaewruecha, CC BY 3.0
- the Mekong at the Golden Triangle, from the Doi Pu Khao viewpoint (daylight, not sunset): Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
- woman hand-painting a paper umbrella: Peter van der Sluijs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Methods: intervision (Dutch intervisie); action learning (Reg Revans); Troika Consulting (Liberating Structures, Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless); forum with the Gestalt protocol (EO and YPO forums); clearness committee (Quaker practice).