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End of year reflections

December 24, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Bowen, Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Design, Facilitation, Featured, Football, Leadership, Learning, Music, Practice, Stories, Travel 10 Comments

Smelhmelhélch (Passage Island) at the mouth of Átl’ka7tsem (Howe Sound) before the snows came earlier this week. Some notes on 2023 while I have a moment to review them. The year began with the death of my father and is ending with worries about the serious and lingering health issues of other senior family members and so in a lot of ways this year has been split between personal grief during the first part of the year, and the waiting, supporting and attending in the second part of the year. Several times during the year, I haven’t found myself at …

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The theology of the Art of Hosting

November 24, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Being, Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Emergence, Featured, Flow, Learning, Podcast, Practice 2 Comments

In the Art of Hosting world we have a few shared core teachings that show up in nearly all the learning workshops that happen. At some point we talk about complexity – we usually explore the Chaordic Path as a simple introduction into complexity – and we always touch on the Four Fold Practice of the Art of Hosting. Back in 2014 I was doing a project with the United Church of Canada looking at the different levels of their structure in British Columbia and imagining what they could also be. If there is one thing that Churches have consistently …

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The Diamond of Participation

August 17, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Featured, Learning 2 Comments

One of the earliest maps I ever discovered in my facilitation career was Sam Kaner et. al.’s Diamond of Participation. It has been a stalwart companion for more than 20 years in my work and forms a key part of the way the Art of Hosting community talks about process architecture, usually referred to as “the breath of design” owing to its pulsation between divergence and convergence. I realize that I don’t really have much on the blog about this map and so I thought I’d share my summary of Kaner et. al.’s seminal work, The Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory …

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Supporting learners with ADHD in online sessions (and everywhere else)

August 4, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Design, Facilitation, Featured, Learning 6 Comments

I think I’m definitely feeling like my work is online for the foreseeable future. While I do have some face-to-face sessions lined up for the fall and winter, most of what I am going to continue to do is host meetings and learning online. Even though I have been doing that since probably 2004 or so when I first started using Skype I continue to learn about how to make online environments more interesting and, most importantly, more accessible. From time to time I put out a call to help me learn about people’s needs and experiences. Back in June …

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What’s in the Parking Lot #3

July 12, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Culture, Democracy, Design, Emergence, Evaluation, Facilitation, Featured, Improv, Invitation, Leadership, Learning

Lots of good stuff coming through the pipe lately. Here are some links for your attention: AI is running our lives and we need to find ways to deal with it. A conversation with LamDa, an artificial intelligence, and the implications of this transcript. The stuff seems like science fiction, but so much of our lives are starting to be mediated through AI bots. We are heading for a reckoning with our ethics, and I’m not entirely sure that the folks with their hands on the technology levers of power are equipped for the job. Make philosophy and ethics a …

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