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Category Archives "Community"

How brains build societies

November 4, 2010 By Chris Corrigan BC, Community, Learning, Organization, Youth

I’m at a Casey Family Programs conference in Seattle that is looking at applying science to early learning in kids.  The people here are learning about brain science and the results of early adverse childhood experiences and what the science can tell us about how we should react in the policy sphere to create healthy kids, families and societies. The keynote is by Jack Shonkoff, who is a leading brain researcher in this field and who has been sharing some of the basics of what we know about brain science, relationships and healthy societies.  Here are some of his key …

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Inspiring hope and change

October 22, 2010 By Chris Corrigan BC, Being, Collaboration, Community, Open Space, World Cafe One Comment

From my recent work in the labour movement, a quote to inspire you in your work for social change: Howard Zinn: ”Ž”To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we… see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the …

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Insights on shifting systems

September 27, 2010 By Chris Corrigan BC, CoHo, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Emergence, Facilitation, Leadership, Organization 2 Comments

Running an Art of Hosting workshop this week for employees of the City of Edmonton.  We are about 30 people all together looking at the art of hosting participatory process, convening and leading in complex environments where certainty is an artifact of the past. Naturally because these people work for a municipal government, the conversations we are having tend to be about systems.  We are working at the level of what it takes a system to shift itself as well as what it takes of an individual to lead when the answers are unclear. For me, lots of good insights …

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Recent thinking on participatory engagement

September 21, 2010 By Chris Corrigan BC, Collaboration, Community, Design, Facilitation 8 Comments

I recently wrote a white paper for a First Nations organization on participatory community engagement.  The paper outlines several models, principles and processes that I am mcurrently working with as I help groups design and implement longer term community engagement processes. Here is the most recent version of the paper for your reading, in .pdf format. The paper talks about mental models and comes from a perspective of decolonization.  I’d love to have your thoughts in the comments so I can refine it further.

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An invitation to go over the waterfall

August 23, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, BC, Collaboration, Community, Facilitation, Leadership, Open Space, Organization One Comment

Harrison Owen periodically restates his invitation to the world to not only join in Open Space but to go as far as you can in Open Space and see where it takes you.  I feel like my work of late has been about this in many ways, and Harrison’s recent post to the OSLIST came at just the right time for me.  Here is what he says: A long time ago a good friend, Ralph Copleman, was to be found in the middle of a large circle of peers dressed in a flowing cape and repeating the words, “Everything is …

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