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Category Archives "Conversation"

How chaordic design unfolds

April 17, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Learning One Comment

Here is a little diagram of the chaordic stepping stones mapped onto Sam Kaner’s Diamond of Participation. This is a pretty geeky Art of Hosting map, but essentially it describes the way planning unfolds in practice. The chaordic stepping stones is a tool I use to do a lot of planning. These nine steps help us stay focused on need and purpose and design our structure and outcomes based on that. the first four steps of Need, Purpose, Principles and People are essential elements for the design of an invitation process. Getting clear on these steps helps us to generate …

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How to get smart – the long answer

March 29, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Leadership, Learning

My friend Ginny Belden-Charles told me a great story today.  She was working in Detroit on some community development issues with a number of activists and others.  Their focus was on empowering community development and social action and creating the kinds of citizen based responses that Detroit needs, and she was invited to come and host a circle. When Ginny arrived in her circle of folks, she was amazed at the presence of  the famous revolutionary activist Grace Lee Boggs.  Grace Lee Boggs is an institution in social activist circles and at 96 years old, with 70 years of practice …

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Ideal group sizes

March 6, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Conversation, Design, Facilitation 5 Comments

First of all there is no such thing. Second, a friend asked me the question “What is the idea group size for collaborative process?” and in trying to answert the question I emailed him the following (please note that this is all off the top of my head, and in practice I usually go with intuition, relying more on patterns than rules): Innovation generally starts with individuals, so I like to build time into to processes for people to just be quiet and think for a bit.  Small groups can help refine and test good ideas, and large groups can …

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A very wicked new tool for process designers

January 30, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Design, Facilitation

A birth announcement that might interest you.  I have been a small part of a project over the past couple of years (along with a few other Art of Hosting stalwarts) to help co-create a pattern language for group process.  Over the years we have been working away at discerning, writing and publishing this pattern language.  The idea is to capture a limited number of patterns that, if practiced in a group context, bring life to gatherings.  After years of work, I think we really have something. The project has now resulted in it’s first product: a deck of cards …

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Action, complexity and a centre

January 26, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Conversation, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Flow, Leadership 3 Comments

Just coming off an Art of Hosting with friends Tenneson Woolf, Caitlin Frost and Teresa Posakony.  Something Tenneson said on our last day as we were hunkering down to do some action planning, has stayed with me.  He said something like “it is easy to create actions that go off in a million different directions, but much more sensible to create actions that come from a common centre.  There is something about holding that common centre together invites trust so that we can release responsibility to action conveners and known they are initiating works that comes from our common shared …

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