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Category Archives "Stories"

Dealing with your slaves and seeing the world

January 25, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Emergence, Leadership, Stories

In a complex and interconnected world it is hard to be an activist against things.  One of the easiest ways that your opponents can neutralize your opposition to things like oil and slavery is to say “we” you depend on oil and slaves, so that makes you a hypocrite.” So this is tricky – solving global problems of labour, energy, economics and justice are the very definition of complex problems.  There is no simple solution, there is a frustrating degree of progress and even large shifts in public consciousness (think land mines or climate change) are met with initial enthusiasm …

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Hahopa rising

October 16, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Community, First Nations, Leadership, Learning, Stories One Comment

  Yesterday was wonderful.  We spent the whole day around a fire on MacKenzie Beach listening to three stories and reflecting back what we learned.  Pawa’s father Moy and uncle Tim both told stories of growing up in a traditional family and village.  For me Tim’s story of getting stranded with his brother in a rowboat was powerful and contained all kinds of teachings about leadership, knowledge and practice.  In the afternoon we did the same with Admire’s story from Zimbabwe, the story of what is happening at Kufunda Village.  A full day of deeply listening to stories, harvesting lessons …

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Collective story harvesting

September 11, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Stories

In the Art of Hosting community over the past two years a group of practitioners have developed a tool called the Collective Story Harvest. I’ve used it several times and it’s a powerful and useful way to rapidly learn from the stories in the room. Today comes news frim Mary Alice Arthur, one of the developers, about recent developments with the methodology. I’m reporting in from the road again, this time from the airport in Chicago. I’ve had many opportunities to catch stories along the journey and this time, I’m here to report in on what’s been happening with the …

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Just about the most fun you can have getting paid

June 14, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Collaboration, Design, Facilitation, First Nations, Stories, World Cafe 5 Comments

SItting here with Geoff Brown and Steven Wright at the World Indigenous Housing Conference here in Vancouver.  We are on the back end of what has been a terrific gig. We were hired by the Aboriginal Housing Management Association of BC to facilitate dialogue at this 800 person international gathering.  The sponsor made dialogue a clear priority and after talking about intentions, we arrived on the design of three World Cafes: one in the plenary with everyone present and two in more focused breakout sessions.  The first cafe would look at stories of success, the second would think about how …

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Working with Cynefin to find questions

November 24, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Design, Stories 3 Comments

  Working with a client tonight who is beginning a process of trying to find some questions for moving forward.  The client is a group of churches who are exploring how they might collaborate to undertake their joint mission together.  There are a number of factors at play, and the environment they are working in is diverse. Tonight, with a few short hours, we’ll do a little story gathering.  We’ll begin by exploring an uncontextualized Cynefin framework and then invite small anecdote circles to form around the question of “What are the challenges and role of our Churches in this …

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