- First new growth in the meadow http://post.ly/1a9vT #
- The promise of sun comes with the obligation to face a strong northwesterly wind. Clearing and returning. It's warm. The budelia is budding. #
- Dark morning cold and dry. A crow is starches from it's sleep. Two hours to go until dawn. #
- Quiet morning. Nothing moving beneath the ever higher climbing sun. #
- Nice spot for an afternoon meditation http://yfrog.com/h2q1jyij #
- Circle practicum trainings with Ann Linnea and Christina Baldwin this year: http://t.co/1gPjwxk HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! #
- It took 18 days for the Egyptian people to do what it has taken the USA 8 years to do in Iraq: create a democracy. Only people can do that. #
- Lovely evening last night singing love songs of loss and watching great Bowen talent celebrate the dark side of Valentines for good causes. #
- The southeasterly gales are lashing the island this morning. Heavy winds and buckets of rain and a high light grey sky. #
- One interesting future of journalism? http://mefi.us/w/100472 @PeggyHolman #
- Great show tonight: Paul McKenna Band at the Rogue Folk Club in Vancouver. Terrific Scottish trad. #
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From Montreal band Little Scream, have a listen to The Heron and the Fox, a gentle tune sung with smoky voiced longing.
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Nice post on using the Cynefin framework to design an ideas generation workshop:
At a workshop I facilitated last week – the challenge was helping a team to generate new ideas for innovating their business – I used Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework to great effect. This was a smart crowd, who were willing to go along with our approach on helping them see new directions through a process of emergent discovery – but they wanted to understand why we were following this approach. For the many cerebral folks in this crowd, I explained the Cynefin framework – and they got it! We could have studied ‘best practices for establishing an innovation culture’, or we could have thoroughly analysed successful innovations of the past for ‘good practices’ and for discovering cause-effect relationships between new ideas and successful outcomes. But we didn’t. And they were ok with it once I explained to them why innovation and ‘best practices’ or ‘analytics’ don’t go well together, using the Cynefin framework. In short, I argued that innovation – the activity they wanted to engage in – has many characteristics of a complex adaptive system: cause and effect are not linked in a linear way, many agents are interconnected and interacting, etc.
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News from Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea about upcoming PeerSpirit Circle trainings, including a new advanced course. This may be some of the finest learning you will ever do with respect to learning about and working with groups:
The PeerSpirit Circle Practicum gathers small groups of people at retreat centers for four-and-a-half days of intensive, experiential learning that blends council time with significant skill development.
via PeerSpirit : Circle Training, Circle Process, Circle Practicum.
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Responding to an inquiry about the copyright of materials on my site, I wrote back:
Everything original on my website is for free, non-commerical use with attribution. Of course there are things I link to that have different copyright schemes, but in general I only link to resources that are also freely shared. You should of course acknowledge those sources distinctly (sometimes people say “I found this on Chris Corrigan’s website” but what they really found was a link to another source. That’s not fair to the original authors). Formally, it’s a Creative Commons, non-commerical, attribution license. Practically, it means that you can do anything you want with those materials as long as you attribute my original work to me and you don’t sell it. Basically, I ask people to err on the side of sharing. In other words, share first and ask permission later!
How do you share your stuff?