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How to disrupt meetings

November 25, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation One Comment

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My friend Tim Merry found this gem, from a 1944 CIA manual on how to perfrom acts of simple sabotage.

With tongue in cheek, this would make an excellent set of guidelines to reflect on at the start of a meeting.  Engaging in any of these behaviours will immediately cause all of us to be suspicious of your motives and employer.

More seriously, I’m going to be teaching university students dialogue and hosting methods next week and will share this with them for sure.

 

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Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics, October 21-23, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

September 29, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting

Over the past four years, Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Caitlin Frost, Tim Merry and I have been sitting down and thinking about our learning about the way participatory leadership intersects with power, systems change, large scale and sustainable engagement and deep personal practice. We have combed through years of our stories and experiences, and developed a learning offering that shares some of our theory, deep practices and stories of systems change.

Over the past two years Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics has travelled across Canada, the United States and once to Europe and we have been lucky to welcome nearly 300 people to our three day program. They have come from all over the world and every conceivable sector in which leadership, engagement and people and the tools that create new worlds.

From October 21-23 we offer our final instalment of the current round of Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics, in Kingston Ontario, Canada, Over three days we will gather on the Lake Ontario shoreline to engage in conversations about applied complexity, participatory leadership, and the challenges of scaling up the results from large group methods like World Cafe and Open Space Technology. We will talk about power and friendship in change work, and broadening and deepening our impact when it comes to community engagement, employee engagement, strategy and systemic change.

We already have a fascinating group of people coming, including academics, health care systems workers, community activists, people who work in First Nations and managers from companies. That diversity leads to terrific learning, and we’d be excited for you to join us.

If you have been working with facilitation, complexity and engagement for a while, this is for you. It’s not a beginners course, but neither is it inaccessible for people just starting in this field who want to accelerate their learning. It’s applied and grounded theory, learning based in stories and a full day of design and coaching for new and existing projects.

We still have seats left. Join us! You can learn more and register here: http://www.aohbtb.com/ontario.html

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The core imperative: training in practice

September 22, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Facilitation, Leadership, Practice

When you make your living in the world as a facilitator, you can’t help but notice the quality of conversation that surrounds you.  People come up to me all the time asking advice about how to have this or that chat with colleagues or loved ones.  Folks download on me their grief that our civic conversations have been polluted by rudeness and the inability to listen.  We feel an overall malaise that somehow our organizations or communities could be doing better.

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Returning to the Basics

August 31, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Design, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Learning

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

— TS Eliot

Our Beyond the Basics team is about to host our last gathering of the current cycle of offers, back in North America.  Over the past five Beyond the Basics offerings I have learned more than I feel like I’ve shared. I can feel that my practice has changed as a result of doing this work, and I’ve become interested in the way our team’s ideas and lessons from working at scale have begun to outline a form and practice of leadership that is needed in much of our work now.

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Participating in our environment

August 20, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Conversation, Culture, Design, Facilitation, Learning, Organization, Practice

Thanks to a rich conversation with artistic researcher Julien Thomas this morning I found this video of Olafur Eliasson at TED in 2009. In this presentation he talks about the responsibility of a person in a physical space, and discusses how his art elicits a reaction beyond simply gazing at a scene.  It address one of the fundamental problems in our society for me: that of the distinction between participation and consumption.  So much that happens in physical spaces and in our day to day lives has been geared towards gazing and consuming and away from participation and responsibility.

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