{"id":1040,"date":"2006-10-18T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2019-08-19T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T12:08:11","slug":"the-tao-of-holding-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-tao-of-holding-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tao of Holding Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1039\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/tao.jpg?resize=147%2C147\" alt=\"tao.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I am pleased to announce the release of a small book I have been working on for the last three years. It is called &#8220;The Tao of Holding Space&#8221; and it is a collection of interpretations of the 81 short chapters of the Chinese classic Tao te Ching as they apply to my experience of holding space. I started this book three years ago, when I began noting parallels between Lao Tzu&#8217;s words and my experience of leadership, facilitation and living in Open Space, something many of us have done. In some ways this book chronicles the essence of my own emergent practice of Open Space. In looking over it one more time, I realized that almost everything I know about Open Space is somehow distilled into these chapters<\/p>\n<p>The book is to be shared, so feel free to pass it along and use it whereever that makes sense<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheTaoOfHoldingSpace\">The Tao of Holding Space in English<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/??????-?2?.pdf\">The Tao of Holding Space in Chinese<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to announce the release of a small book I have been working on for the last three years. It is called &#8220;The Tao of Holding Space&#8221; and it is a collection of interpretations of the 81 short chapters of the Chinese classic Tao te Ching as they apply to my experience of holding space. I started this book three years ago, when I began noting parallels between Lao Tzu&#8217;s words and my experience of leadership, facilitation and living in Open Space, something many of us have done. In some ways this book chronicles the essence of my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6,5,24,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facilitation","category-open-space","category-poetry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-gM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}