Chris Corrigan

Some notes from three days of teaching a small cohort of leaders in the art of participatory leadership. —- When we teach the four fold practice of the art of hosting (also the art of participatory leadership) I’ve taken to doing it in a World Cafe. We use Cafe to essentially recreate the conditions that created the insights of the four fold practice 25 or so years ago. We invite people to tell stories of engaging and meaningful conversations they have experienced, look at these stories together for insights about what made them engaging and meaningful and provide and three …

Tenneson, Caitlin and I are running a three day leadership course for MacEwan University here in Edmonton. It starts tomorrow and we are having a great conversation at Remedy chai cafe about why meetings matter for folks studying leadership. Here are some of the insights. —- Meetings are microcosms for leadership practice. They are places to encounter one’s own leadership gifts and leadership challenges. What you learn when you host a meeting is very much related to how you lead a team or and organization or a board. Meetings are a place to confront what’s real and meaningful. They contain …

If you email me in the next couple of weeks you will get this reply: Hi there. You have caught me in a really busy travel time. It might take me awhile to get back to you, but I’ll do my best to do so within a coupleof days. Please forgive me if it takes longer! In the meantime, here’s my homemade no-knead bread recipe if you wantto give it a try. 5 cups of white flour1 cup of whole wheat flour1 Tbs of instant yeast2 Tbs salt3 cups of water. Mix everything together in a large bowl until all …

This is a speculative post, with a bit of a hypothesis. Where I live in British Columbia there is a provincial election campaign on. It is happening in the midst of a kind of permanent federal campaign that, although not officially begun, has been manufactured by the Conservative Party of Canada as they try to topple the Liberal Party minority government. Political branding is all the rage at the moment, and I’ve been reflecting on an interesting pattern: parties on the right are largely unstable alliances that unite under a common banner for a while and then engage in cycles …

Today, I was working with a client designing a one-day conference for their members. As always, my focus was on the chaordic stepping stones as a way to design, which defers decisions about structure, agenda and logistics until after we have focused the groundwork of the event. Participatory events are not highly engaging without tapping into the group’s urgent necessity and a clear sense of purpose for the gathering. From that point, design becomes easier, and invitation becomes alive. Today, we focused on necessity and purpose. I kicked us off by asking, “What is happening that makes this gathering important? …

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Practice notes: teaching the art of participatory leadership

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