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Category Archives "Facilitation"

Objections to participation in conferences

August 2, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Learning 9 Comments

I have great clients.  Most of the people who end up working with me do so because they want to work in radically more participatory ways, opening up processes to more voices, more leadership.  In conference settings this means scheduling much more dialogue or running the whole thing using Open Space Technology and dispensing with pre-loading content. But there persists, especially in the corporate and government sectors, a underlying nervousness in doing this.  common objections to making things more participatory include: It’s too risky We’re not ready for it I’m worried it won’t work There won’t be enough structure People …

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Working at the margins

July 29, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, BC, Collaboration, Community, Design, Facilitation, Invitation, Leadership, Open Space, World Cafe

I’m currently engaged in a number of projects that have me working at the margins, exploring margins, eliminating margins and generally working with difference, otherness, power and exclusion.  These projects include: Running an Open Space Technology event in September to create collaborative actions around reducing addictions-related stigma in the health system in Vancouver. Working with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in the United States on supporting and expanding a culture of welcome and acceptance in their work with migrants and refugees, work that is stunningly radical in the context of the current “conversation” on immigration in the USA. Part …

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Let’s get this straight

June 1, 2011 By Chris Corrigan CoHo, Facilitation, Leadership, Practice One Comment

Behaviour change is not the same as culture change. That is all.

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Insights on the nature of the times

May 23, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, BC, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Facilitation, Leadership, Poetry, World Cafe 3 Comments

I am here in the Morton Arboretum in Chicago where we are at the end of the first day of an Art of Hosting with our friends in the Illinois community of practice.  We have just been harvesting out of a World Cafe that was held on the question of  “What time it is in the world?”  We used a design I have been using with teams and communities that are needing to do deep sensing.  We went for three rounds on the same question and had the hosts at each table go and deeper into the conversations that were …

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Why culture matters

May 17, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, BC, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, First Nations, Leadership, Stories 4 Comments

Yesterday I had a chance to grab lunch with Dave Pollard in our local coffee shop on Bowen Island. One of the things we talked about was the supremacy of analysis in the world and why that is a problem when it comes to operating in complex domains. I have been intentionally working a lot lately with Dave Snowdon et. al.’s Cynefin framework to support decision making in various domains. It is immensely helpful in making sense of the messy reality of context and exercises like anecdote circles and butterfly stamping are very powerful, portable and low tech processes. Cynefin …

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