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Category Archives "Conversation"

What it means to be free to engage

September 23, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Conversation, Learning, Organization One Comment

Caitlin and I are hosting a learning process for the Vancouver Foundation which has brought together 11 people from community foundations around BC.  We are trying to discover what kinds of new practices community foundations can adopt to roll with the changing nature of philanthropy and community. It’s a classic complexity problem.  The future is unknowable and unpredictable.  Data is plentiful but not helpful because context trumps all.  There are competing experts with different hypotheses of what should happen.  These twelve people are brave.  They’re willing to be the innovators in a sector that is by nature fairly conservative when it comes …

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The core imperative: training in practice

September 22, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Facilitation, Leadership, Practice

When you make your living in the world as a facilitator, you can’t help but notice the quality of conversation that surrounds you.  People come up to me all the time asking advice about how to have this or that chat with colleagues or loved ones.  Folks download on me their grief that our civic conversations have been polluted by rudeness and the inability to listen.  We feel an overall malaise that somehow our organizations or communities could be doing better.

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Participating in our environment

August 20, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Conversation, Culture, Design, Facilitation, Learning, Organization, Practice

Thanks to a rich conversation with artistic researcher Julien Thomas this morning I found this video of Olafur Eliasson at TED in 2009. In this presentation he talks about the responsibility of a person in a physical space, and discusses how his art elicits a reaction beyond simply gazing at a scene.  It address one of the fundamental problems in our society for me: that of the distinction between participation and consumption.  So much that happens in physical spaces and in our day to day lives has been geared towards gazing and consuming and away from participation and responsibility.

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Embracing theory

August 7, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Facilitation, Leadership, Learning, Organization 2 Comments

  This week I have been a part of a series of meetings, gatherings and workshops around the release of a new book on Dialogic Organizational Development.  I contributed a chapter to the book on hosting containers. Yesterday, the lead authors hosted a day long conference on the themes contained in the book and we delivered some workshops and hosted some dialogue on the emergence of this term and the implications for the field. Today we are at the Academy of Management conference being held in Vancouver where the lead authors, and some of the rest of us, are delivering …

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A couple of great days in Montreal

May 26, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Conversation, Evaluation, Facilitation, Learning, Travel, World Cafe 3 Comments

Just about to leave Montreal this morning for Toronto and north to Thornbury, Ontario to visit family.  I was here for the conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society, where I participated on a panel on innovative dialogue methods (and yes I noted the irony in my remarks) and later led a World Cafe where I presented some of the sense-making processes I’ve been working on.  I was here on the recommendation of Junita Brown who has been in some good conversations with evaluators around the use of the World Cafe for evaluation purposes.  Originally Amy Lenzo and I were scheduled …

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