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Category Archives "Being"

Social life as practice

August 12, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Improv, Learning, Practice

In this article, stringing together some obersvations about Louis CK and Mary Halvorson, Seth Colter Walls touches on the wellspring of collaboration. He writes a little of the play that replaces rehearsal for true improvisers, of finding outlets of artistic practice where “no one person is responsible for all the tunes–if tunes are even the order of the day. Such groups aren’t the ones that players use as reputational tent-poles; they’re the ones that successful artists keep going in order to keep the channel for new sounds open. It’s the jazz-world equivalent of Zach Galifianakis’s avant-chat Web-show “Between Two Ferns,” …

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Dealing with disruption

July 26, 2012 By Chris Corrigan BC, Being, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Emergence, Flow, Improv, Leadership

I was listening to a brilliant interview with the theologian and scholar Walter Bruggeman this morning.  He was talking about “the prophetic imagination” and using the poetry of the Old Testament prophets to make a point about a key capacity that is missing in the world right now: the ability to deal with disruption.   SImply, disruption is what happens when the plans we thought we had have suddenly changed.  It could be a major economic collapse – a black swan event – or something so small as your bus left early.  How we respond to disruption is a key …

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June 13, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Being 3 Comments

Halfway down the piano.

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The purpose of practice is practice

April 20, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, BC, Being, Conversation, Practice 9 Comments

UPDATED: To include Patricia Kambitsch’s beautiful doodle. We talk about the Art of Hosting as a practice. It is a way of being with self and other. This is sometimes a difficult concept to understand, because the world is full of lots of instructions about what to do. Telling me what to do is very useful in situations where I am doing things that can be repeated. For example, if I am building a cabinet, fixing a car, creating a budget or processing a claim, then you can give me a set of instructions that will be very helpful in …

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The silence of the big things

March 28, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Being, Practice 2 Comments

Yesterday I spent an hour sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River near Albertville, Minnesota.  We were deep in a design day, and I’m feeling a little run down and tired.  I needed to go and sit, and rest and fill my lungs with air and my mouth with silence. One of the tried and true things I know about sitting in nature is that it takes about 20 minutes in stillness and quiet before the system you have entered has absorbed you.  Humans are clumsy at being in the natural world and we stumble and make noise.  All …

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