First new growth in the meadow http://post.ly/1a9vT # The promise of sun comes with the obligation to face a strong northwesterly wind. Clearing and returning. It's warm. The budelia is budding. # Dark morning cold and dry. A crow is starches from it's sleep. Two hours to go until dawn. # Quiet morning. Nothing moving beneath the ever higher climbing sun. # Nice spot for an afternoon meditation http://yfrog.com/h2q1jyij # Circle practicum trainings with Ann Linnea and Christina Baldwin this year: http://t.co/1gPjwxk HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! # It took 18 days for the Egyptian people to do what it has taken the …
From Montreal band Little Scream, have a listen to The Heron and the Fox, a gentle tune sung with smoky voiced longing.
Nice post on using the Cynefin framework to design an ideas generation workshop: At a workshop I facilitated last week – the challenge was helping a team to generate new ideas for innovating their business – I used Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework to great effect. This was a smart crowd, who were willing to go along with our approach on helping them see new directions through a process of emergent discovery – but they wanted to understand why we were following this approach. For the many cerebral folks in this crowd, I explained the Cynefin framework – and they got …
News from Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea about upcoming PeerSpirit Circle trainings, including a new advanced course. This may be some of the finest learning you will ever do with respect to learning about and working with groups: The PeerSpirit Circle Practicum gathers small groups of people at retreat centers for four-and-a-half days of intensive, experiential learning that blends council time with significant skill development. via PeerSpirit : Circle Training, Circle Process, Circle Practicum.
Responding to an inquiry about the copyright of materials on my site, I wrote back: Everything original on my website is for free, non-commerical use with attribution. Of course there are things I link to that have different copyright schemes, but in general I only link to resources that are also freely shared. You should of course acknowledge those sources distinctly (sometimes people say “I found this on Chris Corrigan’s website” but what they really found was a link to another source. That’s not fair to the original authors). Formally, it’s a Creative Commons, non-commerical, attribution license. Practically, it means …