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Category Archives "Being"

We have it in us

July 31, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Being, Collaboration, Emergence, Music 3 Comments

I love Bobby McFerrin, and I love what he does with music.   Watch in this video how he pulls out of an audience their inherent collective talent.   Beautiful! Thanks to Thomas Arthur for the link.

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Exploring TaKeTiNa

July 29, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Being, CoHo, Collaboration, Flow, Leadership, Music, Organization

This summer I have been gifting myself a weekly learning session with my friends Brian Hoover and Shasta Martinuk who are leading a TaKeTiNa workshop here on Bowen Island.  TaKeTiNa is a moving rhythm meditation that provides a learning medium for dealing with questions, inquiries and awareness.  In many ways it is like a musical version of the aikido based Warrior of the Heart training that we sometimes offer around Art of Hosting workshops.  It is a physical process that seeks to short circuit the thinking mind and bring questions and insights to life. We do this by creating difficult …

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Holding questions

July 21, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Being, Flow, Invitation, Learning 2 Comments

My friend Adam Yukelson wrote and asked me about how I hold questions instead of goals: I was speaking with Gabe Donnelly last night and she was sharing a conversation the two of you had last year in which you said you don’t set goals, but rather, live in a question or questions.   We were both drawn to this idea, and curious how it works for you.   Do these questions tend to be broad and existential?   Short-term and specific?   Both?   Neither?   Are there subsets of questions?   How do you know when a new …

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The price of pomposity

June 15, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, CoHo, Collaboration, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Leadership 3 Comments

Thank you Euan. Now, there is a time and a place for judgemental skepticism and cynicism (I suppose) but somehow there is a widespread sentiment that associates these two stances with expertise and prudence.  Now I don’t want you to think that I am all about squashing opposition or creative tension, but I have to say that when I am working with groups of people to create processes that will help take people out of their comfort zones, there is a particular cynicism that does not help.  Euan Semple calls this “pomposity” and that certainly seems to capture the holier …

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Where am I now?

April 24, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Being, Emergence, Facilitation, First Nations, Open Space, Travel, Youth One Comment

I was talking to my daughter tonight on the phone.   I was walking out of The Forks in Winnipeg where I had just eaten a pickerel (that I learned was from Kazakhstan…W.T.F!) and my daughter requested that I get a GPS that could beep and show where I am on this epic trip.   After being on the road for eight days already, with another 12 ahead of me, I don’t even know where I am sometimes. Yesterday I was wrapping up the 2009 Good Food Gathering in San Jose and I took a CalTrain up to SFO, hopped …

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