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Category Archives "Learning"

Shallow dives into chaos in teaching and leading

December 14, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Facilitation, Featured, Leadership, Learning

In the Cynefin framework, the domains are really shades with some clear boundaires.  Strategic work using Cynefin is about making various moves between different domains for different reasons.  This is called Cynefin dynamics, and there’s an old but good paper on it here. In Cynefin dynamics there is a strategic move of “taking a shallow dive into chaos” which is useful for strategic purposes when one needs to break pattern entrainment.  It is a very useful move in teaching contexts when we are trying to get people to let go of some of their fixed ways of seeing and doing …

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Evaluation rigour for harvesting

July 10, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Evaluation, Featured, Learning 3 Comments

We are embarking on a innovative approach to a social problem and we need a framework to guide the evaluation process. As it is a complex challenge, we’re beginning with a developmental evaluation framework. To begin creating that,I was at work for most of the morning putting together a meta-framework, consisting of questions our core team needs to answer.  In Art of Hosting terms, we might call this a harvesting plan. For me, when working in the space of developmental evaluation, Michael Quinn Patton is the guy whose work guides mine.  This morning I used his eight principles to fashion …

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Desire lines for strategy and change

June 2, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Culture, Design, Featured, Learning One Comment

  I think that doing strategic work with organizations and communities is really about learning. If a group is trying to confront newness and changes in its environment and needs to come up with new strategies to address those changes, then it needs to learn. I love the term “desire lines.” Most of my initial work with organizations tries to get at the desire lines in the organization; the patterns embedded in the culture that help or hinder change and resilience. Naming and making visible these entrained desire lines (including the ones that that group takes into the darkness of …

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Teaching frameworks for practitioners

April 12, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Learning, Practice 7 Comments

Reflecting these days on some two day courses I have coming up, including one on complexity and social change, one on invitation practice and one on Open Space. Each of these courses is workshop to introduce people to a practice or a set of practices, as opposed to techniques and skills. In each of these workshops people will come away with an ability to go into the practice, literally as artists. These are not technical trainings designed to download procedures and methods.  They are courses that will leave you ready to practice, ready to make mistakes and learn as you …

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Walking with complexity frameworks

February 27, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Bowen, Complexity, Evaluation, Featured, Leadership, Learning 3 Comments

Last weekend I took a ramble across Bowen Island, where I live, with a friend and colleague, Annemarie Travers.  Annemarie and I have been teaching the Leadership 2020 program for a number of years now and we both love walking: she on the long pilgrimages of the Camino and Shikoku and me in the mountains of southern British Columbia.  We are also both interested in managing in complexity.

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