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Monthly Archives "July 2017"

Evaluation rigour for harvesting

July 10, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Evaluation, Featured, Learning 3 Comments

We are embarking on a innovative approach to a social problem and we need a framework to guide the evaluation process. As it is a complex challenge, we’re beginning with a developmental evaluation framework. To begin creating that,I was at work for most of the morning putting together a meta-framework, consisting of questions our core team needs to answer.  In Art of Hosting terms, we might call this a harvesting plan. For me, when working in the space of developmental evaluation, Michael Quinn Patton is the guy whose work guides mine.  This morning I used his eight principles to fashion …

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Living in a radically creative universe

July 4, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Being, Emergence

  More from the Kauffman book: “The wondrous diversity of life out your window evolved in ways that largely could not be foretold. So, too, has the human economy in the past fifty thousand years, as well as human culture and law. They are not only emergent but radically unpredictable. We cannot even prestate the possibilities that may arise, let alone predict the probabilities of their occurrence. This incapacity to foresee has profound implications. In the physicist Murray Gell-Mann’s definition, a “natural law” is a compact description beforehand of the regularities of a process. But if we cannot even prestate …

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