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Monthly Archives "November 2007"

Not just any talk is conversation

November 19, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, CoHo, Conversation One Comment

Just back from an amazing Art of Hosting in rural Pennsylvania.   Found this in my email box upon my return, send to me by my friend Toke:

Not just any talk is conversation
Not any talk raises consciousness
good conversation has an edge
It opens your eyes to something
It quickens your ears

And good conversation reverberates
It keeps on talking in your mind later in the day;
The next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said
The reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness
Your mind and heart have been moved
Your are at another level with your reflections.

— James Hillman

This is what it is all about.

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Artists and meaning making

November 13, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting 2 Comments

Marshall McLuhan on the role of artists in harvesting patterns:

“When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition, in other words, to structure the experience.   I think this is part of the artist’s world.   The artist, when he encounters the present…is always seeking new patterns, new pattern recognition, which is his task.   The absolute indispensability of the artist is that he alone in the present can give the pattern recognition. He alone has the sensory awareness necessary to tell us what our world is made of.   He is more important than the scientist.   The scientists are going to wake up to this shortly and will resort en mass to the artist’s studio in order to discover the forms and the matter they are dealing with.”

Sono Hashisaki and I worked with an artist this week, Steven Wright, who drew some patterns and helped make meaning for us, and it was wonderful.   Gratitude overflows.   Thanks Steven.

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The responsibility of love

November 13, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Being 6 Comments

Photo by Hamid Masoumi

This question of the responsibility of love continues to live in me. I wrote a comment at Dave Pollard’s blog that captures another facet of it:

Love IS a social issue and engaging in the world with love is a bit of a trick. It not only accelerates innovation and “better”, it is a double edged sword too. I think there is such a thing as “the responsibility of love” which refers to the way we wield the weapons of the heart in the world when we are working in the territory of open heartedness. When we choose to love, we choose to elevate and commit to certain things above other things – people, paths, choices, directions. There is pain associated with this choosing, made all the more stinging by the fact that we choose and exclude out of heart-felt action, which is action we are fully committed too. It results in pain, and so much of the world that is created by love is also full of grief.

Love and pain, bliss and grief are siblings in this world. If we choose to work with love, we enter this polarity. We may also choose to work with complete dispassion and equanimity, which is what the Buddha invited us to do. My path is not that refined yet. I still choose the path with heart, and that means the path of pain also.

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The future of management needs hosts

November 9, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Facilitation, First Nations, Leadership, Organization 4 Comments

Taholah, Washington

If this article is any indication, the future of management will require more hosts and less bosses.   Hierarchies are disappearing, top-down and centralized is giving way to distributed, and organizations are becoming more open and engaging of stakeholders.

That is true everywhere in my experience, including here at the Quinault Indian Nation where we are reframing the tribal government’s strategic plan in several unique ways.   First we have established a core team of stakeholders from the government and community who are willing to take responsibility for stewarding the plan.   Second, the core team has proposed a new strategic plan model that organizes work not by the departments and programs of the Quinault government structure, but rather by “domains” which are yet to be determined but may end up being things like “prosperity” and “learning.”   Organizing the aspirations and preferred futures of the nation this way means that the government departments need to talk to each other and the community to move the Nation forward.   And finally the new plan requires engagement with many many people, to bring in the wisdom and ownership of the community so that the plan is theirs.   Tomorrow for example we will be hosting an ongoing cafe in the lobby outside the Nation’s general council meeting, where we will be hosting conversations with community members and capturing wisdom with a graphic facilitator.
As a result, our planning sessions are a combination of work and facilitation training because the core team knows that to do this means that they have to talk to people.   So we are exploring how to convene conversations that matter and that have an impact.

How is the shift in management changing the way you plan strategy?

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Euan defines the bottom line

November 9, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Leadership

Tahola, Washington
From Euan:

Management is becoming about noticing and enabling rather than driving and controlling.Get yourselves a big melting pot of different social tools that engender different conversations and expressions of intent from your staff, watch like a hawk, spot the cool stuff, fan the flames and then protect the baby shoots from your spoilers.

Nice.

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