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One Book,
Both Ways

Two generations, one book

Three elders and three young people read the same passage, then sit down and say what they make of it.

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three elders　three young people
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A book is a table. Both generations stand on the same side of it, looking at the same thing — but because they have lived different numbers of years, they do not see the same thing. That gap is the content.
01Both Ways

Both sides bring the same thing

Not "elders supply life experience, young people supply tech support" — that is the same one-way street, pointed the other way. What both sides put on the table is the same thing: a reading of the same passage.

Elders

Young people

Looking back over decades — is this line actually true?

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In the world as it is now, can this line actually be done?

I tried living by this. Here is what happened.

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The people around me do the opposite of what the book says.

I disagree with this — I've seen the counter-example.

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I disagree with this — things have changed since it was written.

Hong Kong was like this then, which is why it held.

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My industry is like this now, so I read it differently.

Take either side away and it collapses back into an ordinary visit, or an ordinary computer class.

02Three Layers

We only ask three questions

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“What do you make of this passage?”

Just start talking. No right answer; one sentence is enough

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“Do you agree with it?”

Forces a position. "No" is the most welcome answer here

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“Why do you see it that way?”

This is the question that finally brings the life story out

The second layer is the whole thing. If all six spend the evening agreeing with the book, the session is dead — no disagreement means no exchange, only recitation. The facilitator goes first with "I am not sure I agree with this line," so that everyone else dares to.

03One Session

What a session looks like

0–15Warm-up
15–25The facilitator reads the passage aloud
25–55Round the table: what do you make of it? Do you agree?core
55–75Cross-questioning — young ask elders, then it must be reversedcore
75–85"Having heard the other side, has your reading changed?"
85–95What each person is taking away

About 95 minutes

04Real Faces

Real people go here

No stock photography, no invented quotes. After the first session this section becomes photographs of the six participants and things they actually said.

Photograph — after session one
A line an elder actually said
A line a young person actually said
05Where It Goes

Where your money goes

We are not going to claim this costs nothing and runs on volunteers — nobody believes that. Here is what one session actually costs, line by line.

One session

A — Direct costs | all spent on the session itself

6–8 copies of the book1,200
Large-print handouts200
Venue and refreshments600
Travel allowance, six participants600
SubtotalHK$2,600

B — Delivery fee | paid to the contracted delivery team

HK$3,400 per session, flat3,400

Covers coordination, facilitation support, filming, editing and the outcome report. It is a flat per-session fee, never a percentage of what is raised — one session costs one session, and raising more does not make it grow.

One-off build costs for the app and this donation page are accounted for separately. Actual income and spending are published after each round.

Full sessionHK$6,000
06Ground Rules

Four rules we hold ourselves to

Flat fee, never a percentage

The delivery fee is priced per session, never as a cut of total donations — a cut would give the delivery team a reason to inflate fundraising.

Benchmarked against market rates

Comparable market quotes for the same development and event delivery are filed with the foundation.

Conflict-of-interest register

There is no overlap of people between the delivery team and the foundation — no board member earns a cent from this money. Even with no overlap, it is registered anyway: only a record proves it.

No exclusivity

The foundation is free to appoint someone else at any time. It is not locked to one delivery team.

Income and spending are published after each round.