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Category Archives "Being"

Mutations are the way to make change

January 2, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Being, CoHo, Community, Emergence, First Nations, Leadership, Organization, Practice 4 Comments

Very few of us have our hands on the real levers of power.  We lack the money and influence to write policy, create tax codes, move resources around or start and stop wars.  Most of us spend almost all of our time going along with the macro trends of the world.  We might hate the implications of a fossil fuel economy, but everything we do is firmly embedded within it.  We might despise colonization, but we know that we are alos guilty of it in many small ways, The reason challenges like that are difficult to resolve is that we …

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New year – musings

December 31, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being 3 Comments

Several little realignings in my life have meant that this blog has gone through one of it’s periodic wanings.  Also, I have been enjoying some time off and some time developing projects which aren’t ready to be written about yet.  But I’m still here, watching calendars tick over, watching the rhythms of light and darkness oscillate in everything, and committed more than ever to a kind of gratitude of the present moment that seems helpful in a world where we are increasingly disenfranchised from everything that lies outside the skin (and some that lies within as well.) Meg Wheatley has …

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It’s not easy

November 7, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Being, Leadership

Working with groups is not easy.  This is Ian McGeechan, manager of the British and Irish Lions before a dead rubber test. My friend Kathy Jourdain was quoted yesterday as saying “our power comes from our vulnerability.”  This video reminds me of how that feels some days.

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Three practices Occupy gives and gave us

November 6, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Being, Collaboration, Community, Leadership One Comment

A little reflection today about social change and Occupy coming out of a conversation yesterday. When I was a young man we talk about “movements” like we were on the go.  From whatever place we were in we will move to another.  And we marked this action with marches and demos, dancing and action.  The feeling of action was powerful and palpable. Once in a while we occupied a place and sat there for a while.  But in general we were all about the movement.  We made ourselves different from those we were working against and we moved. Occupy did …

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A question that might change your life

September 25, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Being, Collaboration, Community, First Nations One Comment

In a year from now, Vancouver will host a very important gathering of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Back in 1986 I was a young man who had grown up in an affluent neighbourhood in Toronto.  I was unaware of the full story of my ancestry and although I was interested in the world, it was a pretty sheltered upbringing. I had just completed high school and had my eyes set on attending university to get a BA on my way to obtaining a Master of Divinity.  I wanted to be a minister in the United Church of Canada. As …

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