Departure and return alternatives

Hosts can offer a private account, letter, print, question, invitation, loan, transfer, continuing access. The participant can accept a particular next step, suggest a change, decline. Staff distinguish material delivery, permission to disclose, future contact, custody responsibility.

A print provides a tangible contribution with authorship and publication choices. A letter can preserve time for private consideration. A loan continues care outside the house. An invitation creates an opportunity for another activity. A participant can also leave with an unrecorded experience or privately retained question.

The choice should fit the actual contribution and stated purpose. Returns, letters, transfers, recurrence develop the different consequences. Researchers compare participant judgments and subsequent activity without requiring every departure to produce a relationship.