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Monthly Archives "September 2015"

Stoking Canada’s racism

September 30, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Community, First Nations One Comment

This morning I’m listening to a lecture from Naheed Nenshi, the mayor of Calgary, who recently gave the Lafontaine-Baldwin lecture on “Doing the Right Thing.”  Nenshi shares his thoughts and stories on citizenship and on how that is changing in Canada.  And he doesn’t pull punches. The lecture is divided into two parts.  The second part talks about citizen action, but the first part talks about our history of racism. There is a deep thread of racism that runs through Canadian society.  As a white skinned man, I grew up hearing  racist chatter.  “Privilege” in Canada – being an “Old …

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Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics, October 21-23, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

September 29, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting

Over the past four years, Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Caitlin Frost, Tim Merry and I have been sitting down and thinking about our learning about the way participatory leadership intersects with power, systems change, large scale and sustainable engagement and deep personal practice. We have combed through years of our stories and experiences, and developed a learning offering that shares some of our theory, deep practices and stories of systems change. Over the past two years Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics has travelled across Canada, the United States and once to Europe and we have been lucky to welcome nearly 300 …

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What it means to be free to engage

September 23, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Conversation, Learning, Organization One Comment

Caitlin and I are hosting a learning process for the Vancouver Foundation which has brought together 11 people from community foundations around BC.  We are trying to discover what kinds of new practices community foundations can adopt to roll with the changing nature of philanthropy and community. It’s a classic complexity problem.  The future is unknowable and unpredictable.  Data is plentiful but not helpful because context trumps all.  There are competing experts with different hypotheses of what should happen.  These twelve people are brave.  They’re willing to be the innovators in a sector that is by nature fairly conservative when it comes …

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The core imperative: training in practice

September 22, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Facilitation, Leadership, Practice

When you make your living in the world as a facilitator, you can’t help but notice the quality of conversation that surrounds you.  People come up to me all the time asking advice about how to have this or that chat with colleagues or loved ones.  Folks download on me their grief that our civic conversations have been polluted by rudeness and the inability to listen.  We feel an overall malaise that somehow our organizations or communities could be doing better.

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Retrospective coherence and the road not taken

September 14, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Emergence, Featured, Leadership

One of my favourite concepts from the complexity world is the fallacy of thinking that comes from the truth of retrospective coherence.  The mistake is that, because we can look back in time to understand causes of our current condition, we can therefore see forward in time and affect the causes of a future condition.  Complex systems are emergent, so we can never be sure what the future holds, regardless of how well we can trace how we got here. Despite the fact that it is illegal to sell an investment instrument without the warning that “past performance does not …

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