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Remembering 14 women

December 6, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized

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Eighteen years after the event, I still choose to remember the women killed at the Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal. Many of these women were my age, they were my contemporaries, they were students when I was a student and their murders touched many of us very deeply. So, as I have done every year, i invite you to join me in remembering these fourteen women and all women who have been murdered by men.

  • Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
  • Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
  • Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
  • Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967) mechanical engineering student.
  • Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
  • Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
  • Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department.
  • Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
  • Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
  • Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
  • Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
  • Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
  • Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
  • Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

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Three perfect gems

December 4, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Being 2 Comments

It is amazing sometimes that the RSS aggregator seems to collect a pattern that is fleeting and yet solidly present in the diverse world of the blogs I read.   And so today, I am delighted to find these three posts, all of which seem to be saying something bigger:

  • Alex Kjerulf writing on love and leadership
  • AKMA in a meditation on the gift of endings and continuings prompted by Lemony Snickett and JK Rowling’s last novels.
  • Christy Lee Engle on “the unwanted passion of your sure defeat,” and other thoughts inspired by David Whyte.

There is a tenderness in all three of these posts, finding the soft underbelly of what might otherwise be a hardened and closed experience.   Something ineffable like that, and all three touched me quite deeply on this late autumn day, when the snow is melting around me and the rain and fog move through in small moments.

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Harvesting harvest

December 4, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting

Harvesting is up in a big way for me.

Monica Nissen and I captured the results of our conversation on harvest within the Open Space at the Art of Hosting near Boulder and we made this map.   If you click on the picture above, you will be taken to the photo page where there are annotations on the map.   You can also add comments here or there as to what it sparks in you.

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The power of micro conversations

December 2, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized

Doug has a nice post today:

Micro conversations can be a counterpart to micro credit: what if we could encourage people to converse in little groups, to take charge of their lives, jointly, in little snatches, and spread these micro conversations to thousands and thousands? Here is where the pyramids and circles work, because there is an infinite set of permutations and each one is creative (not additive, not multiplicative, not geometric). It is not zero sum, where one gathers at the expense of another: all benefit. Not just individually but in our interwoven whole.

Just host a little conversation, do it deeply and with intent, but not a big deal…on the bus, at lunch, at the Art Gallery. Harvest something and get something started, or just inspire.

Micro everything…enough of that and macro starts to feel it.

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Harvesting soil, not dust

November 29, 2006 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting 2 Comments

An a-ha on harvesting

In my inquiries about harvesting, I have been searching for ways to make harvest the simplest possible thing.   In the Art of Hosting community we often look for what we lovingly call “hobbit tools” – the core essential tools that you can bring with you anywhere.   A few of us are in the process of developing hobbit tools around harvest.

A few days ago in a conversation with a client, I stumbled upon one of these hobbit tools of harvesting: have somewhere to take the harvest.

The conversation we were talking about was about a conference we are doing in February.   The conference marks the tenth anniversary of the release of the final report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.   In the 10 years since the report was released, very little of the Commission’s recommendations were acted upon.   The federal government released a response to the report in 1999 called “Gathering Strength” which offered an apology to residential school victims and a promise to work in a new partnership with Aboriginal peoples.   To some extent this has happened, but largely the report has been gathering dust.

And so my client is convening a conference which will look at the report and what it might take to get it moving again especially in the resources sector.   Her initial vision for the conference was to produce a set of proceedings that would be used by others to kick start the implementation of the Royal Commission report.

I challenged her to do more than that – indeed to do more that the Royal Commission itself did- and to find a way to bring the conference proceedings to life.   So we began to craft a strategy for the harvest of this event.

The plan now is to harvest the results of the conference as both a record of the event and as an inquiry itself.   We can share the report but we will also craft a series of the questions – the questions we are left with after three days of deliberations – and these questions will be put to five different and specific forums.   My client now is spend the next couple of months talking to influential gatherings, organizations and forums to find five places that will commit to co-inquiring with her on the conference proceedings during 2007.   Our conference report will therefore not gather dust but will live in the discussions that follow on, as we seed ideas into the field of Aboriginal – government relations.   This plan will be shared with the conference delegates in pre-conference note that will hopefully give them confidence that the conference will have an impact.

So the simple hobbit tool is this: guarantee that your results will not gather dust, and challenge yourself and your participants to keep it alive.

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