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Category Archives "Being"

Being hosted by the land

November 7, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen, Practice One Comment

  Yesterday in our five day residential we invited the participants out on the land for a solo retreat.  Bowen Island, where I live, is an incredible place.  To get here, you have to take a boat across the Queen Charlotte Channel, a deep body of water at the entrance to Howe Sound.  Howe Sounda was formed by glaciers and mountain making processes, and now is a fjord surround by walls of 1200 meters or more. Entry to Bowen is through Snug Cove, a small and protected harbour that s part of of a bigger bay called Mannion Bay.  it …

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Staying on the road

November 6, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Leadership, Learning, Poetry, Practice

Halfway through our five day residency with leaders from the community sector and the Ministry for Children and Families here in BC.  Times like this, at middle of a five day retreat, we turn our thoughts to what comes next and we forget to be present.  This is our day of practicing presence however, and later today we will be going out on the land and allow ourselves to be hosted by the forest, the rain and our island.  This is the time for a fierce recommitment to the here and now. My colleague and friend Annemarie Travers, who is …

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Just doing it

October 21, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Being, Collaboration, Design, Facilitation

    I’m coming back from Hahopa with simplicity ringing in my ears.  I think the mantra is “put something in your hands.” At Hahopa we cooked together, wove cedar together, trained with swords together, played lahal and sang songs.  We DID a lot.  And in our doing we could reflect on our being.  And from our being we can create a view of what else we might do. I spend a lot of time helping people plan things.  But I am noticing that people want plans that promise a great future, but are afriad to start doing things.  Heading …

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What if we can never leave?

June 15, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Conversation, Facilitation, Uncategorized 6 Comments

There are conversations I don’t want to have and there are conversations I show up in and where I don’t like how I show up there. How to change these? We are always inside the conversations we don’t want to have. We cannot leave them. We always have to host from inside this place. At some level you can never leave earth. You belong here and to every conversation that is happening here. You are invited to host it all. That is your obligation for being given the gift of life.

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A good time to do right.

June 11, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Being, Community, Flow 3 Comments

Martin Luther King Jr., writing from teh Birmingham City jail in April of 1963, mused a little on time: I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of goodwill. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers …

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