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Monthly Archives "June 2009"

Day zero at ALIA

June 22, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Poetry

Day zero here at the Shambhala Summer Institute here in Halifax.   The staff of the ALIA Institute have been working hard to get everything ready for us, and today people started to arrive.   Over the past could of days the faculty have been meeting in a little pre-institute retreat, building our own field and grabbing the chance to have conversations with one another.   We’ve been getting a little taste of each other’s modules, playing with some of the creative process that is going on and generally catching up with each and getting a sense of our field. …

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June 21, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized

Day zero here at the Shambhala Summer Institute here in Halifax. The staff of the ALIA Institute have been working hard to get everything ready for us, and today people started to arrive. Over the past could of days the faculty have been meeting in a little pre-institute retreat, building our own field and grabbing the chance to have conversations with one another. We’ve been getting a little taste of each other’s modules, playing with some of the creative process that is going on and generally catching up with each and getting a sense of our field. Today we held …

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From the feed

June 19, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized One Comment

Morsels for chewing upon from the RSS pantry and the tap of tweet: Viv McWaters goes open source with her facilitation methods. Tweeting the revolution

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The price of pomposity

June 15, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, CoHo, Collaboration, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Leadership 3 Comments

Thank you Euan. Now, there is a time and a place for judgemental skepticism and cynicism (I suppose) but somehow there is a widespread sentiment that associates these two stances with expertise and prudence.  Now I don’t want you to think that I am all about squashing opposition or creative tension, but I have to say that when I am working with groups of people to create processes that will help take people out of their comfort zones, there is a particular cynicism that does not help.  Euan Semple calls this “pomposity” and that certainly seems to capture the holier …

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41

June 13, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized 2 Comments

The sun is shining here on Bowen Island and I am relaxing on the porch enjoying my 41st birthday. Hope all is well where you are

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