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The week’s tweets

August 15, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Notes

  • The cloud lingers and only the call of ravens rattles through the trees. Thirsty earth has drunk deeply of the rain. Stewards celebrate. #
  • From a hotel parking lot near the Toronto airport there is no chance for the Perseids. #
  • Sitting in the cool shade of an Ontario walnut forest. Blue jays and goldfinches. The soundtrack of my childhood summers. #

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August 8, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Notes

  • Clouds moved and a few thunderclaps sounded last night. No rain and the cooler air smells of dust. #
  • The swainsons thrushes have stopped their evening chorus. The year makes a subtle turn. #
  • Citrine sun hanging in a smoky sky. Distant fires mute the sharp colours of clarity. #
  • Please consider joining us on beautiful Bowen Island, BC, Canada for an Art of Hosting retreat October 3-6, 2010. Info: http://bit.ly/dd7VQo #
  • Updated my facilitation resources page: http://bit.ly/1BF6WH #
  • Awoke to thunder in the Sound and a pale rose dawn. Warriors of the heart arise! #
  • A cold front moved in. Cloud. A little rain. The darker elements of life itself. #

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The week’s tweets

August 1, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Notes One Comment

  • The world is in a still meditation this morning. The only movement is the nervous thought of woodpeckers drumming clarity on the firs. #
  • It's very hard to sleep out on the deck with the moon doing its bright shiny thing. (small quibbles with the beauty of night!) #
  • RT @tjbuffoonery: "I have a friend who can't get back on his facebook page… for over a week…any advice?" Yeah congratulate him, says I! #
  • It is still still. #
  • One day is another day. The sky remains cloudless. #
  • Spurs looking paralysed by Villareal's possession game. Hutton… ack! #coys #
  • Bring Bale in please…#coys #
  • This is much better from Spurs…#coys #
  • Fog above the sea this morning even wrapping the top of Apodaca ridge. It'll burn of by noon. #
  • Woodpeckers drumming on the firs this morning and the hollow pulses rang through the forest. #

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Simplest ground rules?

July 31, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Conversation, Facilitation

Like  Johnnie Moore I don’t generally set ground rules when I facilitate a meeting.  For most meetings, it’s demeaning and it tends to enforce the authority of the facilitator to act as a judge rather than as a host for the conversation.

The odd time there are meetings in which the tension is explosive and if necessary I do this simple exercise with a group:

1. Invite each person to reflect on these two questions:

  • How do you want to be spoken to by others in this meeting?
  • How do you want others to listen to you in this meeting?

2. Break into groups to compare these relfections and bring one or two as operating principles back to the whole.

Yes, it’s the Golden Rule. What I want for myself, I should also want for others.  It’s a useful exercise for focusing us on mindful conversation, while at the same time giving the group a quick thing to work on together, and not being prescriptive in our rules of behaviour.   By definition, the ground rules are already owned.

(Incidentally, the most common answers to these questions are things like “don’t shout at me, don’t interrupt me, hear what I am saying, don’t blame me.  Of course it is easier to want these things than to do these things, but the group can find more skillfulness if these principles are made explicit.)

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The week’s tweets

July 25, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Notes

  • Music flows through me; never true to say I play it. It plays me. #
  • Awoke with the taste of saltwater on my lips. Yesterday's ocean was a long cool embrace in the fluid of our origin. #
  • What makes the air so empty that raven calls echo for miles? How do I become like that? #
  • Smell of sweetgrass on the air this morning. #
  • A Stellers Jay calling 6 feet from your face makes an excellent alarm clock. GOOD MORNING! #
  • What a lovely moon. I'm looking at it through the back of a northwest wind that sent swells pounding Bowen Bay this afternoon. Relaxed calm. #

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