A Kayan (longneck) village is co-creating news ways of doing tourism.

1. Huay Pu Keng Village Trip
September 2016 Mutually Empowering Tourism Explorations

2. What we did
✓ We brought a group of 12 international friends to the village
✓ We had a meeting with the chief and other key persons in the village
✓ Village hosts practised being a village host, and toured visitors
around the village.
✓ We experimented with a newly made Conversation Game, before
and as part of a village tour.
✓ We had a Cross-Cultural Cro-Creation Evening event about:
● Feedback on the Conversation Game
● How to prepare for village organised event next month
● Lovenote moment
✓ We enjoyed homestay and meals

3. Process
✓ Introduction Game:
a. Throw ‘animal puppet’ and say your name
✓ Conversation Game Feedback (30 minutes)
a. Divide in 3 groups: visitors, villagers, village hosts
b. Q How was the experience playing the game? What question did you get,
what did you like about, what didn't you like about it?
c. Group Presentations
d. Group Conversation
✓ Brainstorm on next event. (1,2,4 format, 30 minutes)
a. Q1 What can i do in my home that is a little different then what I’m now doing.
Could be a conversation or activity.
b. Personal reflection, discuss with neighbor, discuss in groups of 4
c. Q2 How do I prepare to make this activity happen?
d. Group Presentations
e. Group Conversation
✓ LoveNote Closing
a. Every person gets to give a lovenote to another person in the group
✓ Key Learning: the 1, 2, 4 format did not add to to the process as groups naturally emerged. (Paired
discussion did not work but personal reflection was valuable).

4. Key Outcomes
● The visitors felt awkward to have a conversation about the
topics on the cards; they felt the need to first have small talk
before going into these deeper cultural topics and questions
on the cards.
● The villagers felt excited to have conversations about these
topics, because of the opportunity to learn about other
cultures as they don't have a chance to travel.
● The village hosts enjoyed sharing information and learn
about cultural differences by serving as interpreters between
villagers and visitors. It also gave them opportunities to learn
new vocabulary and improve their English skills.
● See here more detailed Harvest info
➢ Develop cards with images (and simple questions) as not
everyone can read.
➢ Add topics from this list of conversation topics villagers and
visitors made during our first visit in December.
✓ The Conversation Game needs refinement. Villagers, and village hosts loved it, and visitors felt awkward
initiating a conversation by using the cards.
Click here for Conversation Game Instructions

5. Key Outcomes
Aye Maung, the chief and his men took ownership of hosting activities
and teaching them to visitors. Some of the expressed activity ideas
are:
Brass jewelry making
Learn about Kayan gardening
Learn how to make a buffalo bell
Learn how to make arrow & bow
Go on a jungle tour and learn about edible and medicinal plants
Go explore a near cave with WWII artefacts
Spearfishing in the river
➢ Let us know if you are interested in joining us for this event.
➢ The event is open for all that are interested!
➢ See here for the harvest of all presented activity ideas.
✓ There will be a village organized event on November 12 & 13, 2016

6. Key Outcomes
Depending on what you want to learn and how long
you want to stay in the village (1 day up to 3 weeks),
You can now make arrangements at
HPKvillage@gmail.com.
Or get more info at:
facebook.com/HPKworkshops
Check out the promotional poster!
The workshop offer was co-created during the
Bamboo Workshop in Pai in September and
finalized during this visit. The chief selected this
poster because of the pretty village photo.
✓ HPK is ready to teach visitor groups traditional bamboo skills at your request for min. 2-5 people per
workshop.

7. Key Outcomes
✓ Our 1st Annual International Cross-Cultural Co-creation Conference event will this year take place in Huay
Pu Keng Village on 3,4 and 5 february 2017 (and continues 6 to 9 february in Pai).
➢ Let us know if you
are interested in
joining us for this
event.