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Category Archives "Conversation"

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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Exploring Dialogic Organizational Development

February 17, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Facilitation, Leadership One Comment

Later this spring, Gervase Bushe and Bob Marshak will be publishing a new text on Dialogic Organizational Development.  It is a book that is a mix of theory and mpractice, written by both academics and practitioners.  I contributed a chapter on holding containers. There are several events happening in the next few months in connection with the launch of what we hope will become the standard text in a new field.  This includes a full day pre-session before the Academy of Management conference in Vancouver in August Here is what Gervase sent along this morning: Bob Marshak and I are …

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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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Embedding assumptions in the question

February 9, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Complexity, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Invitation, Leadership

I was working with a couple of clients recently who were trying to design powerful questions for invitations to their strategic conversations.  Both organizations are dealing with complex situations and specifically with complex changes that were overtaking their ability to respond.  Here are some of the questions that cam up: How can we be more effective in accomplishing our purpose? How can we create more engagement to address our outcomes? What can we do to innovate regardless of our structure? Help us create new ideas for executive alignment around our plan to address the change we are now seeing? Can …

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Nuanced preferences instead of voting for sense making

December 7, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Community, Complexity, Conversation, Facilitation 7 Comments

  This afternoon I’m coming home after a morning running a short process for a church in Victoria, BC.  The brief was pretty straightforward: help us decide between four possible scenarios about our future.  Lucky for me, it gave me an instant application for some of the stuff I was learning in London last week. The scenarios themselves were designed through a series of meetings with people over a number of months and were intended to capture the church’s profile for its future, as a way of advertising themselves for new staff.  What was smart about this exercise was the …

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