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Category Archives "Being"

What is actually going on now?

May 22, 2024 By Chris Corrigan Being, Bowen, Community, Culture, Facilitation, Featured 11 Comments

I was reflecting today with a friend on the nature of the world right now. We were discussing some of the story collections I have from the early part of the pandemic when I was running Participatory Narrative Inquiry projects with organizations seeking to understand the effects of the pandemic on their services. It’s hard to remember that time, and it’s very hard to remember the “before-times,” as people call them. But reading these stories reminded me of what we all did together all of a sudden. It was meant to be a short-term intervention in our lives. It wasn’t. …

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Deep time and ancient landscapes

April 20, 2024 By Chris Corrigan Being, Complexity, Containers, Culture, Featured, First Nations, Uncategorized One Comment

I’m back in Tlaoquiaht territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island. This is a place I once described as The Land of Tsawalk as it is the cradle of a philosophy and cosmology of interconnection and interdependence that has been refined by centuries of Nuu-chah-nulth philosophers, leaders and families. We’re here to do an Art of Hosting with the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust and 40 or so local leaders and organizers. This will be the fourth Art of Hosting I’ve done here and they are always different, responsive to the land and the ocean and the people and the way …

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Steve Martin on happiness

April 12, 2024 By Chris Corrigan Being, Featured 5 Comments

There is a swing on the path that leads up and over the headland from the village of Nazare. This is me on that swing last month. Happy. We watched the first episode of the two-part Apple documentary on Steve Martin, which charts his early life through the development of his stand-up act, his early forays into television and movies and which ends in 1980 when he walked away from stand-up comedy, as he puts it, jumps off the train of stand up and onto the train of movies. During the 15 years in which he developed and honed his …

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Four years ago, possibility.

April 3, 2024 By Chris Corrigan Being, Featured One Comment

What our local forest looked like 4 years ago Walking this morning, the air and the light reminded me of that lockdown spring of 2020. By April that year, we were all in it together. People made art and music in their living rooms and shared it with the world. We were learning how to use Zoom and bake sourdough and Google different customs for personal hygiene from places where toilet paper is a novelty. What stays with me from that time is the fact that there was real hardship in many places, as COVID-19 outbreaks caused a lot of …

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From the Parking Lot

April 2, 2024 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Community, Conversation, Culture, Design, Featured, Invitation, Links, Music, Practice 4 Comments

Surfboards inside the museum at Nazaré, Portugal, all of which have ridden the biggest wave in the world. Things I have found while surfing. Have a look at these, and maybe leave a comment about which link grabbed your attention and what you learned there. (PS…the headlines are links! Click for more) John Coltrane’s ideas behind “A Love Supreme.” I adore this piece of music. I think I first heard it about 20 years after it was recorded, which was nearly 60 years ago now. It is a high form sacred music piece, as important and meaningful as anything that …

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