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Monthly Archives "May 2010"

The poem of our closing – Transition Nelson

May 21, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Poetry

It has become a standard practice for me now to make a slam poem from the words of opening or closing circles, as a way to reflect to a group something of it’s wholeness.  These poems are completely improvised, using the words of the participants as material.  There is a lot of reincorporation of people’s words in these poems which makes for a lovely reminder when I read it out and participants shift their awareness around the circle A poem I wrote at the end of the Open Space for Transition Nelson.  One of our participants brought her two chickens …

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From the feed

May 14, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized

Been too busy to read the feed lately, but here’s some stuff: Dave Snowdon argues for data over information. whiskey river posts a little something that Dave might therefore appreciate. WFMU shares some really interesting older progressive music sounds. And for your further listening pleasure: Steve Mason – All Come Down from Said the Gramaphone…very nice mellow tune.

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Space has presence

May 14, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Flow, Leadership, Open Space, Organization

My twitter friend Durga pointed me to this article from    Euan The Potter.on the Japanese aesthetic concept of “Wabi sabi” Etymologically, “Wabi sabi” is based on the root forms of two adjectives, both of which are generally translated as “Lonely”. “Wabishii” however focuses on the object which is lonely, where as “Sabishii” focuses on the absence which makes the object lonely. The principal of “Wabi sabi” is therefore; Beauty reduced to its simplest form, and that form brought to a peak of focus by its relationship with the space in which it exists. That is to say, the presence …

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The Days of Now

May 13, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Being, Open Space, Poetry

A poem by Ralph Copleman a longtime Open Space practitioner, posted this week on the OSLILST The Days of Now On the night before Now we all clambored over and greeted each other by the gateway. Now came the first morning. We opened for each other many conversations and passed cups around the shining circle. On the second of Now, I could see a long way in people’s eyes which cleared to let in the light. On the third of Now, everyone started dialing up tomorrows, released laughter and embraced every future Now with braided voices and sweat-slicked arms. Each …

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Opening space in Melbourne, and the fifth principle

May 3, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Open Space

I’ve just opened space at a conference here with Viv McWaters, Geoff Brown, Anne Pattillo and Johnnie Moore.  We’ve got a two day, full on participatory conference on evaluation with 179 people.  40 topics have gone up for our day and a half OS. It’s sweet for me being here in Melbourne, which for me is the spiritual home of Open Space in Australia (would you agree Brendan?  :-)).  Of course for me that impression largely comes from the fact that this was Father Brian Banibridge’s  home, and I regret that I never made it here while he was alive, …

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