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Category Archives "Appreciative Inquiry"

Creating a mindset to work with failure

March 11, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Appreciative Inquiry, Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Community, Design, Facilitation, First Nations, Improv, Leadership, Learning 2 Comments

Innovation does not come without discarding ideas, trying and failing.  In complex systems with complex challenges, failure is inevitable and desired.  If we need to prototype to sense our way forward we have to have a mindset that can handle failure. On Saturday at the Art of Participatory Leadership in Petaluma my new friend Shawn Berry convened a session on failure and through listening to stories ranging from small prototoyping failures to business breakdowns and even deaths, I noted a few patterns that are helpful for groups and people to address failure positively nd resourcefully Frame it up. In North …

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Studying what makes recovery possible

June 28, 2010 By Chris Corrigan Appreciative Inquiry, BC, Facilitation

A key part of supporting community resilience lies in accentuating what is working in communities, giving it attention and putting to use.  Today my friend Jerry Nagel wrote from Minnesota to ask for advice about what to do with some of the communities who have been devastated by tornadoes in the last week.  My reply: Might be useful to go through an appreciative process of studying what happened to get people back on their feet.  What aspect about our community made it possible to look after those who lost their homes?  What stories of response do we need to harvest …

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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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Four reflections to turn the mind to practice

July 29, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Appreciative Inquiry, Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Practice

Was listening on the beach yesterday to a good talk by Joseph Goldstein about four reflections that bring the mind to dharma.  These relections are used by Buddhists to become mindful in everyday life.  Mindfulness – individual and collective – is a resource in short supply in the world.  A lot of the hosting work I do is about bringing more mindful consciousness to what groups are doing.  These four reflections are useful in that respect. From a dharma perspective, the four reflections are: Precious human birth Contemplation of impermanence The law of karma Defects of samsara On their own …

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