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Category Archives "Culture"

Differences are real; divisiveness is a choice

February 6, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Complexity, Culture, Facilitation, Featured, Power

I’m on the road, currently in Columbus Ohio, working my way through a two week road trip that has taken me to Ontario to visit family and to New Brunswick where I was part of a remarkable hosting team for the Art of Hosting Working Across Divides. It was a timely gathering for 70 people from government, civil society, and social enterprise to come and learn how to work with differences. In Canada’s only bilingual province, language is a massive difference between people, and New Brunswick has a multitude of language cultures. There are 34 local French accents alone in …

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Walking away from facebook

January 15, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Being, Culture, Democracy, Featured, Wordpress 17 Comments

Back in December I announced my intention to take a sabbatical from Facebook and see what would happen. There were a number of factors in that decision, and I’ll share what I learned and what I’m doing now.  I had a few reasons for wanting to take a break: Facebook was a huge time waster, and earlier last year I deleted the app from my phone (it and Messenger and Instagram track your life your life and serve you ads based on what you’ve been doing). As a result, I have spent a lot less time there, although I do …

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Remoteness as a colonization strategy

January 2, 2018 By Chris Corrigan Community, Culture, Featured, First Nations, Travel

I’ve been enjoying reading Adam Nicolson’s book “Sea Room” about the Shiant Islands in the Hebrides. The history of the small group of islands that he owns obsesses him.  He charts the archaeology and natural history of the islands, and the book is filled with the characters who are the real owners of the place – the crofters and shepherds that work the land as tenants witinn the strange Scottish systems of private land ownership.   Nicolson expresses some astonishment at the amount of activity that has taken place on the Shiants over history because they are considered so remote …

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Desire lines for strategy and change

June 2, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Culture, Design, Featured, Learning One Comment

  I think that doing strategic work with organizations and communities is really about learning. If a group is trying to confront newness and changes in its environment and needs to come up with new strategies to address those changes, then it needs to learn. I love the term “desire lines.” Most of my initial work with organizations tries to get at the desire lines in the organization; the patterns embedded in the culture that help or hinder change and resilience. Naming and making visible these entrained desire lines (including the ones that that group takes into the darkness of …

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The myth of managed culture change

April 11, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Culture, Featured One Comment

For a long time I have known that the idea that culture change can be managed is a myth.  A culture is emergent and is the result of millions of interactions, behaviours, artifacts and stories that people build up over time. It is unpredictable and results in surprise.  The idea that a “culture change initiative” can be rolled out from the top of an organization is not only a myth, it’s a hidden form of colonization. And worse, the idea that people need to be changed in the way the boss determines if we are to become the kind of …

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