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Monthly Archives "January 2020"

Happy New Year!

January 24, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen

You might think it a little bit late, but here on the in Howe Sound where I live, New Year traditionally begins. In the local language, Sk?wx?wu?7mesh sni?chim, this time of year is known as “tem welhxs” which refers to the time of the last snows and the frogs starting to sing. Ten days ago here on Bowen Island, we had a massive snow and windstorm, but at lower levels, all that snow has melted, flooding the creeks and wetlands and making the forest bright green in today’s after-rain sunshine. It’s warm – 9 degrees celsius – and it does …

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Harrison Owen and getting out of the way

January 22, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Open Space 4 Comments

One of my favourite photos of Harrison Owen, courtesy of Peggy Holman This morning I got to play the role of host/interviewer to my mentor Harrison Owen, the guy that accidentally invented Open Space Technology and unknowingly changed my life. It was when I participated in my first Open Space conference in 1995 that I knew I had found the core of my path in work. Truth be told, interviewing Harrison is the easiest job you could ever want. You basically do what you do when running an Open Space meeting: ask the question and get out of the way. …

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The Four-Fold Practice, meeting design, and facilitation/3

January 4, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Practice 5 Comments

Part three in a series: Part one: Just what I needed Part Two: Where did this come from? Part three: a collection of patterns for design and facilitation. As I heard the story, the four fold practice was something of a flash of insight tied in with the original Art of Hosting offering made by Toke, Jan, and Monica. Somewhere in the forests of Northern California as the team was preparing to offer its first Art of Hosting training, somebody woke up one morning, after a few days of discussion and design with the strong sense that meaningful conversations had …

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Reflections on the Four fold practice of the Art of Hosting/2

January 2, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Featured, Practice One Comment

Part of a series. Part one: Just what I needed Part two: Where did this come from? Something Harrison Owen said to me somewhere along the line drove me to understand that facilitating Open Space Technology meetings required a tremendous amount of personal practice. He talked about rising at 4am the day of his Open Space meetings and meditating for an hour. The work of actively letting go takes a tremendous amount of energy, especially if, like most of us, you have control instincts to overcome. When one is facilitating an Open Space meeting the desire to control things, even …

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Reflections on the Four Fold Practice of the Art of Hosting

January 1, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Featured, Open Space 3 Comments

To begin the new year, I’m offering here a series of posts on the core practice of the Art of Hosting, the Four-Fold Practice. Since 2003, the Art of Hosting community has been my primary learning and practice community as I have learned and grown my facilitation and leadership practice. Central to that community is the four-fold practice, a simple framework that describes both what the actual Art of Hosting is and what it does. Part one today describes a bit of my own journey that brought me into contact with this community. Over the next few days, I’ll share …

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