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Category Archives "Conversation"

What we lose when we don’t actually converse

November 21, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Leadership 2 Comments

Have a listen to this piece from a recent segment on CBC’s current affairs show “The Current.”  It is a discussion about Canada’s commitment (or lack of it) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  In it you will hear Keith Stewart from Greenpeace (Disclaimer: an old friend, by the way) arguing for a policy and fiscal framework that helps Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to renewables.  You will hear him discussing the issue with Ron Liepert, who comes from the petroleum sector in Alberta and was the former Alberta Energy Minister.  And who is running for the Conservatives in …

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Helping to improve the public conversation

November 13, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Bowen, Community, Conversation 5 Comments

For the past few weeks I have been trying an interesting experiment in civic dialogue. Here on Bowen Island we are in the midst of local elections.  We are a small community of 3500 living on a liece of land about the same size as Vancouver, with fairly limited resources in terms of being able to fund local services.  It is a beautiful and inspiring place to live, a place that almost wills one to dream about it.  It inspires people to move here, to build, to steward, to preserve, to write.  Folks run for election because deep down they …

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Training in structures that support humanity

September 15, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Facilitation, Organization 2 Comments

in this video, Organizational practices applied  by Tim Merry he talks about an organization that adopts basic practices to restore humanity to its structures.  Predicated on the idea that the quality of results are directly dependant on the quality of relationship in the organization, he describes using circle practice as a simply way to activate relational capacities in a team. The link between relationship and results is well established. It is the basis of relational theory and is a core assumption underlying a whole world of organizational development thinking and practice, including the Art of Hosting. Good relationships are fundamental but not …

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An intro to the Art of Hosting and some mapping

April 8, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Community, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Leadership

  Back in November Janaia Donaldson from Peak Moment TV interviewed Dave Pollard and I about the Art of Hosting, especially as it applies to transition towns, resilience and community leadership.  That video was released today along with a lovely 10 minute edit in which Dave maps out some of the essential Art of Hosting elements using the GroupWorks Pattern Language card deck.  Enjoy.

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Capacity, engagement and authentic learning

January 24, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Community, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Invitation 2 Comments

I think there is probably nothing new under the sun.  Engagement work has been tried, refined and improved all over the world in the last couple of decades that I wonder if there is anything new we can learn?  It does seem to fall into “authentic engagement” and “engagement washing” – if I can coin a couple of phrases.  But I haven’t seen radically new thinking or practice for a while. What we are getting instead is some terrific collections of tools, handbooks and harvests of processes.  This .pdf of a Handbook for Civic Engagement prepared for a community process …

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