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Category Archives "Conversation"

Principles of resilience for designing and facilitating containers for complex work

October 30, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Conversation, Culture, Democracy, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Organization, Power 4 Comments

Last month Caitlin and I worked with our colleague Teresa Posakony bringing an Art of Hosting workshop to a network of social services agencies and government workers working on building resilience in communities across Washington State. To prepare, we shared some research on resilience, and in the course of that literature review, I fell in love with a paper by Michael Ungar of Dalhousie University. In Systemic resilience: principles and processes for a science of change in contexts of adversity, Ungar uncovers seven principles of resilience that transcend disciplines, systems and domains of action. He writes: In disciplines as diverse as …

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Seven Little Helpers for dialogue and action: Part 5 – Make a wise decision

August 21, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Collaboration, Complexity, Conversation, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Power, Practice One Comment

Part five of a seven part series on the Seven little helpers for dialogue and action Part 1: Presence Part 2: Have a good question Part 3: Use a talking piece Part 4: Harvest 5. Make a wise decision I’ve always thought that the essence of good leadership is the ability to make a decision. It requires a certain kind of courage, especially when it seems that there is a zero sum game at stake. It also requires a high degree of emotional intelligence and compassion and empathy, especially when the decision you have to make could result in harm …

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Planning in pure dialogue

January 26, 2019 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Chaordic design, Conversation, Design, Emergence, Featured, Flow, Practice

I’m just coming home from a couple of days in Victoria where Caitlin and I were with colleagues Rebecca Ataya, Annemarie Travers, and Kelly Poirier. We spent two days working on what I can only call “polishing the core” of the Leadership 2020 program that we offer on behalf of the Federation of Community Social Service of BC. We have run this leadership program for 8 years now, putting around 400 people through a nine month intensive program of residential and applied learning. The program has built collaboration, trust, and connection between the Ministry of Children and Family Development, indigenous …

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Short time, World Cafe to the rescue

September 25, 2018 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Facilitation, Featured, World Cafe One Comment

Helping a friend with a design challenge today. He is running a small group process at the end of a day of presentations about energy futures in a small community. He initially thought that it would be good to end the day – in which 120 people are gathered to hear about energy futures – with action steps, but these kinds of gatherings are not good places to come up with action planning.  Instead I advised him to use a World Cafe for reflection process to produce the elements of a shared vision.  IN a little over an hour, good …

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Designing nesting thresholds

September 23, 2018 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Chaordic design, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Featured, Invitation 2 Comments

All facilitation work happens within containers and those containers are separated from the rest of the world by thresholds.  When you enter a meeting, you are removing yourself from the world and entering into a space where specific work is being done.  It’s no exaggeration to say that this is almost a ritual experience, especially if the work you are doing involves creating intangible outcomes such as team building, good relations, conflict resolution or community.   Good participatory meetings have the characteristics of the Four Fold Practice within them: people are present and hosted with good process.  They participate and co-create.  …

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