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Category Archives "Design"

Cynefin and idea generation

February 12, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Design, Emergence, Facilitation

Nice post on using the Cynefin framework to design an ideas generation workshop: At a workshop I facilitated last week – the challenge was helping a team to generate new ideas for innovating their business – I used Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework to great effect. This was a smart crowd, who were willing to go along with our approach on helping them see new directions through a process of emergent discovery – but they wanted to understand why we were following this approach. For the many cerebral folks in this crowd, I explained the Cynefin framework – and they got …

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What harvesting tool works best?

February 11, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, BC, Collaboration, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, World Cafe 2 Comments

A colleague emailed today and asked me this question: “which tool do you use when you have to analyse the content of your harvest with groups?” My answer was that it depends on so much.   Which means there is no one rule or tool but rather a principle.   The principle would be this: “Participatory process, participatory harvest, simple process, simple harvest”   The primary tool I use in complex decision making domains is diversity. A story.   Once, working with the harvest of a a series of 4 world cafes that had about 100 people in each, I …

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Doodling in math class

January 11, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Design 2 Comments

Have you seen these doodle games from Vi Harte?  Brilliant games to play with math.  Or perhaps games to play that demonstrate how math works.  This one is my favourite, but you might also enjoy Stars, Infinity Elephants or Binary Trees, among others.

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There is no precedent; we need new ways.

January 10, 2011 By Chris Corrigan BC, Community, Design, Emergence, Flow, Leadership

Theses on Sustainability: [18] NO, THERE IS NO PRECEDENT for what we are struggling to create. We have to make it up ourselves. A great set of theses which ends with this one. And therefore the capacities to create what is unprecedented are also unprecedented. Best practices for what will be needed in the future are not available at any scale in the precedent.  The call in the world now is to move to discover new ways of being at every scale.  Some of this new ways will draw on old ways, some of it will draw on contemporary ways …

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Recent thinking on participatory engagement

September 21, 2010 By Chris Corrigan BC, Collaboration, Community, Design, Facilitation 8 Comments

I recently wrote a white paper for a First Nations organization on participatory community engagement.  The paper outlines several models, principles and processes that I am mcurrently working with as I help groups design and implement longer term community engagement processes. Here is the most recent version of the paper for your reading, in .pdf format. The paper talks about mental models and comes from a perspective of decolonization.  I’d love to have your thoughts in the comments so I can refine it further.

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