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Category Archives "Conversation"

Dealing with disruption

July 26, 2012 By Chris Corrigan BC, Being, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Emergence, Flow, Improv, Leadership

I was listening to a brilliant interview with the theologian and scholar Walter Bruggeman this morning.  He was talking about “the prophetic imagination” and using the poetry of the Old Testament prophets to make a point about a key capacity that is missing in the world right now: the ability to deal with disruption.   SImply, disruption is what happens when the plans we thought we had have suddenly changed.  It could be a major economic collapse – a black swan event – or something so small as your bus left early.  How we respond to disruption is a key …

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Conversation as a practice of equality

May 24, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Community, Conversation 2 Comments

“Conversation demands equality between participants. Indeed, it is one of the most important ways of establishing equality. Its enemies are rhetoric, disputation, jargon and private languages, or despair at not being listened to and not being understood.” – Theodore Zeldin To sit in the presence of one another, to open to each others deepest longings, o host the space that makes room for silence and the most earnest murmurs of the heart. To see another as they see you, to pay respect to the story of a human being who sits with you and who is curious about your own. …

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“Not to fight with one another”

May 15, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Community, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, First Nations, Invitation, World Cafe 5 Comments

I was up north on the weekend, working with a small community that has been driven apart by a large and contentious decision.  It doesn’t matter what it was, or what either side wanted – the result is the same result that happens in many small communities: people who are friends and neighbours shouting and fighting with each other. The team I was working with are trying to reinvent the way this community is engaged.  We used a lovely redux of Peter Block’s work to help frame our conversation about design and implementation.  A few things stood out for this …

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Relaxing

April 24, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Community, Conversation

AFter a phenomenal trip across the country, featuring three back to back to back Art of Hosting workshops on water, I am taking it easy, relaxing for a couple of days in the Beaver Valley, beside Georgian Bay.  Reconnecting here with family and friends, we’ve been watching crazy, crazy weather come through off the bay – hail and sleet and snow and wind, three foot waves crashing on the breakwater.  Last night we lost power and four foot high snowdrifts appeared on the top of the valley sides.  Down here at the valley bottom, it is just wet, but I …

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The purpose of practice is practice

April 20, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, BC, Being, Conversation, Practice 9 Comments

UPDATED: To include Patricia Kambitsch’s beautiful doodle. We talk about the Art of Hosting as a practice. It is a way of being with self and other. This is sometimes a difficult concept to understand, because the world is full of lots of instructions about what to do. Telling me what to do is very useful in situations where I am doing things that can be repeated. For example, if I am building a cabinet, fixing a car, creating a budget or processing a claim, then you can give me a set of instructions that will be very helpful in …

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