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Category Archives "Facilitation"

Using constraints in facilitation

June 8, 2023 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Complexity, Containers, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Organization 4 Comments

Someone asked me the other day about how to use constraints in facilitation and I thought I’d jot some quick thoughts down here. Let’s start using terms from Cynefin. Group work falls on a scale between ordered tasks and unordered tasks (or complicated and complex). The first question I ask myself in designing a container for facilitation is, “how much emergence is desired in this field?” In most of my work, I’m working in highly emergent situations, but for folks working around issues like safety or legal issues, there may be a prescribed outcome that the group needs to work …

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The Four Fold Practice as a recipe for building dialogic containers

May 29, 2023 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Complexity, Conversation, Culture, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Flow, Invitation, Leadership, Open Space, Organization, World Cafe 4 Comments

A few months ago, I was immersed in teaching complexity within the framework of the Art of Participatory Leadership program (AoPL). Essentially, AoPL is the application of the Art of Hosting within leadership contexts, extending beyond traditional facilitation and hosting scenarios. With a strong emphasis on personal practice and the use of complexity tools, AoPL encourages a deeper exploration of the connections between the Four Fold Practice, complexity, and dialogic containers – topics I’d previously addressed in my chapter for the book ‘Dialogic Organizational Development‘. My recent revisit to these subjects has sparked fresh insights. In one of these sessions, …

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Holding space for self-organization

March 30, 2023 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Complexity, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Open Space, Organization, Power

Four things conspiring here today. So before you dive into this post, go play Horde of the Flies at Complexity Explorables. Play with the sliders. Find a way to lock all the dots in one super stable state. Find a way to ensure endless randomness. Find a way to have the dots self-organize such that patterns emerge, persist for a while, and then change. Play with trying to control the system. See if you can get desired results. Now, what’s going on here? There is a relationship between organization and self-organization. Systems self-organize within constraints. Without constraints, anything is possible, …

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Don’t tell me how it’s going to go

March 22, 2023 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Featured 10 Comments

That’s me, teaching something about living and dying systems from a decade ago. Years ago, I worked on a team with a client at a large US Foundation. We were planning a participatory process for a big stream of their work, and they were nervous. Large-scale participatory group methods were new to them, and lots of the leaders were nervous about losing control. That’s not uncommon, but the one thing that stuck with me was a line that came from our direct project lead. He said, “I don’t mind the highly participatory nature of the work, and I don’t worry …

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Upcoming training in complexity, hosting, and other things

March 15, 2023 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Complexity, Evaluation, Facilitation, Featured, Learning

Working with Complexity Inside and Out We are getting excited about our Complexity Inside and Out program which starts on April 13 and runs to June 15, every Thursday in the afternoon for the Pacific timezone, early evening in the Eastern time zone and late evening in western Europe. The course will cover: …and more. This program will serve you well if you are a facilitator working with groups in complex situations, a leader, a community worker, a strategist, a researcher, or a teacher. Or just a human who is curious about how the world works and is developing a …

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