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Category Archives "Art of Hosting"

Reflections on the Four fold practice of the Art of Hosting/2

January 2, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Featured, Practice One Comment

Part of a series. Part one: Just what I needed Part two: Where did this come from? Something Harrison Owen said to me somewhere along the line drove me to understand that facilitating Open Space Technology meetings required a tremendous amount of personal practice. He talked about rising at 4am the day of his Open Space meetings and meditating for an hour. The work of actively letting go takes a tremendous amount of energy, especially if, like most of us, you have control instincts to overcome. When one is facilitating an Open Space meeting the desire to control things, even …

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Reflections on the Four Fold Practice of the Art of Hosting

January 1, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Featured, Open Space 3 Comments

To begin the new year, I’m offering here a series of posts on the core practice of the Art of Hosting, the Four-Fold Practice. Since 2003, the Art of Hosting community has been my primary learning and practice community as I have learned and grown my facilitation and leadership practice. Central to that community is the four-fold practice, a simple framework that describes both what the actual Art of Hosting is and what it does. Part one today describes a bit of my own journey that brought me into contact with this community. Over the next few days, I’ll share …

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Another Art of Hosting

November 9, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Bowen, Featured 2 Comments

It feels like Christmas Eve around here. I am sitting at home on Bowen Island and our house is full of friends and colleagues Amanda Fenton and Kelly Poirier who have now retired to bed. Along with Caitlin, we have completed a long and productive day of planning and design for what will be the 17th annual Art of Hosting on Bowen Island. This evening I am sitting by my fire, finishing a dram of Laphroaig and remembering the first one in 2003 when Toke Moeller and I sat by this same fireplace discussing teaching and learning and what this …

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Principles of resilience for designing and facilitating containers for complex work

October 30, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Conversation, Culture, Democracy, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Organization, Power 4 Comments

Last month Caitlin and I worked with our colleague Teresa Posakony bringing an Art of Hosting workshop to a network of social services agencies and government workers working on building resilience in communities across Washington State. To prepare, we shared some research on resilience, and in the course of that literature review, I fell in love with a paper by Michael Ungar of Dalhousie University. In Systemic resilience: principles and processes for a science of change in contexts of adversity, Ungar uncovers seven principles of resilience that transcend disciplines, systems and domains of action. He writes: In disciplines as diverse as …

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What I know about “complex facilitation”

October 25, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Complexity, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Organization 9 Comments

In this blog post, I’m going to lift the lid on the core of my facilitation practice. I specialize in complex facilitation for addressing complex issues and this requires a special approach to working with groups. In the Art of Hosting world, we call this approach “hosting” to signify that it has its primary focus on the spaces and processes that we use to host dialogue rather than a more traditional facilitation approach that manages the content, meaning-making, and dynamics. For me, this approach is defined by a focus on the two key dynamics of emergence and self-organization. After 15 …

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