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Monthly Archives "November 2006"

I am a Jedi loser

November 13, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Being, Learning 5 Comments

Yesterday we celebrated my son’s sixth birthday with a small gathering of five of his friends based on Star Wars. We did nothing but open a space in the middle of our small house and let them bang away at each other for two hours with light sabers. For a six year old boy, this constitutes a great gift (as it does I am sure for the parents of the other boys who came!). Of course, being the Jedi master, I was obliged to fight them all at some point, and sometimes even two at a time. It was all …

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Harvest

November 10, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, CoHo, Collaboration, Emergence 7 Comments

This week I was in a gathering with 16 friends about the nature of hosting new organizational structures that arise from the hosting practices that seek to move groups to new levels of consciousness and collaboration. The gathering was essentially four days long, and at the end of second last day I had an interesting conversation with my friends Peggy Holman and George Por about the art of harvesting. “Harvesting” is usually thought of as a way of telling the historical story of a gathering, and as a metaphor it has some value in terms of expanding the idea beyond …

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Why I wear a poppy

November 3, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized 3 Comments

“We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy and the one facing what we do to the enemy.” –Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, p. 301 I wish I could find a more coherent way to talk about this, about the complex set of emotions I feel in wearing a poppy and believing in peace.   Joseph Boyden’s quote reminds me about the humanity that is at war.   Whenever humans are involved in something, it’s never simple, so bear with me.   I am trying to write about something that lives strongly in my heart, and heart …

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