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Monthly Archives "March 2010"

Having fun and changing behaviours

March 21, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Facilitation, Leadership, Learning 7 Comments

Here are three resources which have recently crossed my path that involve using fun and games for social change.  Some of these work with groups and some work across social spaces – demographics, communities or organizations.  What I like about these games is that they provide a built in set of measureables that can be used to gauge progress and evaluate behaviour change.  Sesms like combining fun, visible change and simple yet powerful standards for noticing shift is the holy grail in this kind of work.

Games for Change:  Games for Change (G4C) is a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the sector and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources.

The Fun Theory:  I’ve blogged this before, but The Fun Theory is “dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.”

The FreeChild Project: Lots of  games and resources at this website dedictaed to youth engagement around social change.  FreeChild has been working for almost eight years to promote the idea that when engaged in meaningful ways throughout society, the knowledge, action and wisdom of children and youth can make the world more democratic, more non-violent and engaging for everyone. By working with adults as allies young people learn, teach and lead democracy throughout society!

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Planning events with the new operating system

March 19, 2010 By Chris Corrigan BC, Organization

My mate Geoff Brown blogs his experience running a music festival using improvisation, trust and the gift economy as an operating system:

Over the weekend, myself and Marty Maher and a bunch of other volunteers stage the 3rd annual Aireys Inlet Open Mic Music Festival. Apart from being an absolutely outrageous success, it was loads of fun and we designed and staged it all without a Steering Committee (yaaay) ” or a detailed strategic plan for that matter!

Go read the results:  The Fun & Improvisation of a Music Festival – the backstory | Yes and Space.

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Art of Hosting Edmonton Alberta, June 2010

March 19, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting

All of you looking for an intensive Art of Hosting experience, we are now accepting registration for the June 6-9 event in Edmonton, Alberta.  Please join Teresa Posakony, Tennson Woolf, Corrinna Chetley-Irwin, Mary Johnson, Chantal Normand, and I for four days of learning, connecting and practice around hosting nad harvesting conversations that matter for wise action.

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From the feed

March 19, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized One Comment

There is an omlet in this weeks batch of feed food:

  • Christopher Niemann repurposes Google Map aethetics to make cleaver pictures.
  • Jordon Cooper points to a beautiful tilt-pan movie of my favourite city: New York.
  • Laura McGrath’s blog.  A new friend and colleague.

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The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears

March 18, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Poetry

Forwarded to me by my colleague Ray Gordezky, with whom I am part of a team looking convening people around polar bears in Northern Labrador and Quebec.

The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears

Hailey Leithauser

Some things are better defined

by what they are not,

as when snow heaping the world

replaces the world, becoming

no longer a rooftop, no longer a narrow

gravel shoreline or road,

even in times, in places,

no longer the black breathing

of the sea.

In this way the polar bear

stealing her difficult, beautiful life

from the ridges

and drifts, the colorless

plateau around her,

teaches her young to hunt

by sliding her belly

flat along the frozen light,

blunting her cloudlike

respiration, covering

with one comic paw

the dark flesh of her nose,

so well suited to her artifice

that the oily

seals collecting the ice

are pulled by an intimate

landscape, soundless

and ravenous and white.

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