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Category Archives "Collaboration"

Making a rough and ready pattern language as a creativity tool

April 20, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Conversation, Facilitation, Featured, First Nations, World Cafe One Comment

Just finished out first day of work with Navajo Area Health Promotion practitioners and 30 community wellness workers, Elders and healers from across the Navajo Nation.  We are blending an Art of Hosting workshop with content and process from  some recent research in neuroscience, epigenetics, and adverse childhood experiences and with wellness and leadership models from our Navajo colleagues with whom we have a ten year relationship. One of the pieces of work we are doing is supporting these folks in launching or accelerating some community based projects using the social networks they have in place here.  This will involve …

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Asking for help

April 18, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Featured, Leadership, Learning One Comment

I’m in New Mexico this week where we will be back together with our colleagues from the Navajo Nation, working together to keep finding collaborative ways to address health and wellness and community resilience in the Navajo Nation.  Doing this is an ongoing skill and practice.  There are no answers, only different situations that require us to keep working together. A key skill in being able to address issues you don’t know anything about is to stop and ask for help. My friend Tenneson Woolf, with whom I spent the last weekend in Salt Lake City, sometimes tells a useful …

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It’s not always easy

April 11, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Community, Design, Facilitation, Leadership, Learning, Open Space, Organization, World Cafe 3 Comments

Today a client emailed me with a small anxiety about setting up a meeting room in a circle.  The work we will do together is about rethinking relationships in a social movement and the concern was that it was already unfamiliar enough territory to work with.  Setting up the room in a circle might cause people to “lose their minds.”  I get this anxiety, because that is indeed the nature of doing a new thing.  But I replied with this email, because I’m also trying to support leadership with my client who is doing a brave thing in her calling:

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How journalists can help convene

March 22, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Community, Leadership 2 Comments

Back in the fall I got to finally do some work with my friends Peggy Holman and Stephen Sliha (and Carol Daniel Kasbari too!) with the fabulous organization Journalism That Matters.  I was able to do a little process hosting and participating in the developmental evaluation that was going on during the two day conference in Portland. Last month Peggy published an overview of what we learned in that conference.  Embedded in that report is this video made by some of the students on the evaluation team.  It contains interviews with many of the participants who had epiphanies about what …

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Five good principles for organizational transformation

January 28, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Complexity, Design, Leadership, Learning, Organization

In the complex space, Paul Hobcraft shares some very good guiding principles, but the whole post shimmers with good advice about transformation, and is applicable to movement building, network organizing and enterprise. Today corporate transformations must be designed and executed quickly and routinely—not as once-a-decade events. Management teams are looking for best practices that increase speed and reduce the risk of pursuing business model innovation and change. That’s where minimum viable transformation comes into play. Before diving in, management teams should consider these five principles: 1. Learn how to learn. The central goal of minimum viable transformation is to learn …

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