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Category Archives "Art of Hosting"

Extending the Four Fold practice of the Art of Hosting

May 21, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Leadership, Practice One Comment

The four of us on the Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics team are all global stewards of the international Art of Hosting community of practice.  We have all attended or hosted at least two of the global stewards gatherings and we have been deeply involved in the creation and growth of the Art of Hosting community over the past decade. As such, the Art of Hosting is our lineage.  It’s where we met.  It’s the most important community of practice in our lives and it continues to shape our work.  And Beyond the Basics is very much rooted in …

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Understanding where you are, not where you think you are: some tips and a process

March 25, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Complexity, Design, Emergence, Evaluation, Facilitation, Featured, Learning, Organization, Stories 3 Comments

A couple of good blog posts in my feed this morning that provoked some thinking.  These quotes reminded me how much evaluation and planning is directed towards goals, targets and patterns that cause us to look for data that supports what we want to see rather than learning what the data is telling us about what’s really going on.  These helped me to reflect on a conversation I had with a client yesterday, where we designed a process for dealing with this.

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This morning’s dialogue poem

March 10, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Poetry

Harvest from a three hour check in circle this morning, building a social field among 40 health promotion practitioners from across the Navajo Nation.  The circle was at times tender and wickedly funny.  It built a beautiful field to begin our three day training.  Here’s the poem: Yá’a tééh! It’s a good day. I am here for the wellness of our nations; we have stationed ourselves inside our families where we teach and learn reach each parent and turn around their minds to a kind of space that is safe to face what flies over our heads as we sit on …

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Back to a simple teaching of chaos and order

March 4, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Complexity, Conversation, Leadership, Learning, Organization, Travel One Comment

Tenneson Woolf, Caitlin Frost and I are snuggled into the attic rooms at the Capitol Hill Mansion B&B in downtown Denver, listening to some jazz, eating some pasta and salad and finishing up a productive design day together.  We are preparing to teach the Art of Hosting to 60 leaders from the community at St. John’s in the Wilderness Cathedral in Denver.  St. John’s is a high Anglican Gothic Episcopalian cathedral in the heart of Denver.  We have been working with the cathedral community over the past couple of years to build the capacity among the 1700 members to be …

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When citizens do the work

February 10, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Community, Conversation, Facilitation

Tonight in Vancouver I’m acting as a provocateur at an event sponsored by my friends and colleagues at Waterlution.  Water City 2040 is a ten-city scenario planning process which engages people about the future of water across 10 Canadian cities.  Tonight’s event is part of a pilot cohort to see what the process can offer to the conversation nationally. What’s powerful about this work is that it’s citizens convening, hosting and engaging with one another.  This is not a local government engagement process or a formal consultation.  This is a non-profit organization convening deliberative conversations.  The advantage of that is …

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