{"id":10627,"date":"2022-05-10T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2022-05-10T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:13:07","slug":"an-interview-on-the-tao-of-holding-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/an-interview-on-the-tao-of-holding-space\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview on the Tao of Holding Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago I wrote a little book called the Tao of Holding Space which was an interpretation of the Tao te Ching as applied to Open Space Technology and the facilitation of other participatory practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ouvrirlespace.ca\/\">Annick Corriveau<\/a> is an Open Space Facilitator and she interviewed me a couple of months ago about my nearly 30 year history with Open Space Technology and the origins of this little book. She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEGoCWNTqs8E4_RcU_w30Ug\/videos\">a series of interviews with OST practitioners <\/a>that are well worth checking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YrJjR0_8_Lk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can download the book for free from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheTaoOfHoldingSpace\">Internet Archive in English <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/%E5%BC%80%E6%94%BE%E7%A9%BA%E9%97%B4%E4%B9%8B%E9%81%93-%E7%AC%AC2%E7%A8%BF.pdf\">in Chinese<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/contact\/\">be in touch directly<\/a> to purchase a copy of the published version that my friend Mark Busse championed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I wrote a little book called the Tao of Holding Space which was an interpretation of the Tao te Ching as applied to Open Space Technology and the facilitation of other participatory practices. Annick Corriveau is an Open Space Facilitator and she interviewed me a couple of months ago about my nearly 30 year history with Open Space Technology and the origins of this little book. She has a series of interviews with OST practitioners that are well worth checking out. You can download the book for free from the Internet Archive in English or in Chinese or &#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6,56,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facilitation","category-featured","category-first-nations","category-open-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-2Lp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627","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=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}