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Category Archives "Facilitation"

Basic design for extraordinary conversations

August 10, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Invitation, Leadership, Organization

A basic diagram for hosting questions that create extraordinary conversations.  In the life of organizations and communities there are times when questions arise that just can’t be dealt with in the regular course of events.  This is often when those of us who are consulting facilitators are brought into an organization.  We are often told that “we have reached a place where we need a facilitator to help.”  Usually there is an obvious need or purpose stated right in the first few sentences of the phone call or the email.  This is something that consultants like us have to bear …

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Helping participants learn

August 9, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Facilitation, Invitation

I’ve been thinking on similar lines; it’s quite tempting to write stuff about faciliation to guide the “leader”… but maybe it would be more powerful to write for the participants. Steve, in fact, goes ahead and does this, suggesting 12 Acts of Courage to Change Meetings for Good. via Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: Facilitation for participants. Yes indeed Johnnie, and I see this as fundamental to the invitation process, so that participants know what they are getting into.  

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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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