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Category Archives "Being"

Art of Hosting, Tofino, day 1

December 15, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Appreciative Inquiry, Art of Hosting, BC, Being, Design, Facilitation, First Nations, Practice One Comment

It’s 11:30 and I’m about ready to tuck into bed.  Through my open window I can hear the roar of the surf rolling on the beaches a mile away.  The surf report says that the swells are coming in at 9 feet but are going to rise to 17.5 feet by tomorrow.  The roar is deafening, but it is a sound that has been heard on these beaches from time immemorial.  The Nuu-Chah-Nulth, upon whose territory I am working, have lived here as long as the sound of the waves has been heard, and they’ll be here until those waves …

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Chasing the sun into the land of Tsawalk

December 14, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Appreciative Inquiry, Art of Hosting, BC, Being, Collaboration, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, First Nations, Learning, Travel 2 Comments

Writing from Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island which is about as far west as you can go without leaving North America.  I’m here this week to run an Art of Hosting training with a number of community coordinators for 14 Nuu-Chah-Nulth communities around Clayoquot, Barkley and Kyuquot Sounds.  We’re going to be learning together about methods for community engagement and participatory leadership and all of it based very deeply in the concept of Tsawalk (from the Nuu-Chah-Nulth principle of “heshook ish tsawalk” meaning “everything is one.”) Last night I drove out here across the spine of Vancouver …

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Art of Participatory Leadership, day three

December 6, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, BC, Being, Collaboration, Facilitation, Flow, Improv, Leadership, Learning, Practice, Uncategorized One Comment

My friend Robert Oetjen was a key member of our hosting team at Altmoisa.  He brings a lovely capacity to the work, being the head of an environmental learning centre in southern Estonia, he understands the deep connection between human and world, and is a practitioner of the most ancient arts of human kind: tracking and fire building.  He is a man who is a beautiful learner from his environment.  Born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, he moved here in the early 1990s as a Peace Corps worker, teaching English in the days in which Estonia was hungry to claim …

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Beautiful

November 28, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Being, Poetry One Comment

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. If this is arrogant, God, forgive me, but this is what I need to say. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you …

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Lists, creativity and death

November 14, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Being One Comment

SPIEGEL: Why do we waste so much time trying to complete things that can’t be realistically completed? Eco: We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die. via SPIEGEL ONLINE – Druckversion – SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.

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