{"id":1410,"date":"2008-06-24T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2008-06-24T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:41:08","slug":"day-two-at-shambhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/day-two-at-shambhala\/","title":{"rendered":"Day two at Shambhala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean-Sebastien<\/a> is alive with rock balancing. \u00a0 He and his mates are decorating the whole campus with sculptures. \u00a0 He has become one of our rock balancing senseis here at the Institute and it’s very cool to see what he is learning from the practice. \u00a0 Today, just before our module started, he was sitting with me in the centre of the circle and he asked if here was something to knowing which kinds of edges would sit together, and as he took his mind off the task of balancing, in the act of asking the questions, the rocks he was working with came together. \u00a0 Very cool. It’s a strong metaphor for hosting practice too.<\/p>\n

Our module today moved from the personal to the relational and we spent some time in appreciative interviews looking at the characteristics of conversations tat lead to shift. \u00a0 We used some integral quadrants to harvest the results of these conversations, and a harvest team went to work making some meaning for the group. \u00a0 We left them in a little chaos at lunch time, inviting them deeper into the practice of collective harvesting and we’ll see where it goes tomorrow.<\/p>\n

This evening was a time for catching up with mates. \u00a0 David Stevenson is here with me, a guy I have worked with closely over the past five years with the Vancouver Island Aboriginal Transition Team<\/a>. \u00a0 He’s in my friend Tom Hurley’s module and is cracking some questions about the kinds of governance structures that serve agile organizations in living systems. \u00a0 Tonight we spent some time sitting on rocks overlooking the Bedford Basin and talked about what was at the living core of our work. \u00a0 Probably more to come on this, but the big insight today was in cracking the nature of what we have been talking about as “the fifth organizational paradigm.” \u00a0 We have long suspected that there is something that transcends the four organizational paradigms of circle (reflection), triangle (action), bureaucracy (resourcing) and network (informtion sharing, learning and collaborating). \u00a0 David has been speaking as the fifth paradigm as a living ecology where all four of these come to play, where all four exist in the service of what is alive. \u00a0 The fifth paradigm is the place where these four act in concert to serve the living core of an organization. \u00a0 I’m liking this a lot.<\/p>\n

In closing, here is the poem I slammed out as the cafe harvest yesterday:<\/p>\n

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Time to be in it<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Corrigan<\/em><\/p>\n


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Time to reform, see our relations reborn<\/p>\n

from the inside out watching repression die into clarity<\/p>\n

wet in the eyes where<\/p>\n

hope falls in<\/p>\n

and old worlds shed their skins<\/p>\n

and we sit in the raw light of the new.<\/p>\n


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This is what we’re going to do.<\/p>\n


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Hang on to each other through the chaos<\/p>\n

of fucked up panic that plays us<\/p>\n

like dupes into not knowing the truth<\/p>\n

that everything we do is a choice.<\/p>\n

I’m here to meet hearts<\/p>\n

that choose authentic restarts.<\/p>\n


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Different is on its way, starting right now and later today<\/p>\n

and tomorrow as we fly<\/p>\n

from uplift to sorrow<\/p>\n

we’re called into balance and focus,<\/p>\n

hard work and hocus pocus where the magic meets the tragic<\/p>\n

and challenge appears and our spines straighten<\/p>\n

and urgency seers its invitation upon us.<\/p>\n


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Start here.<\/p>\n


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It’s getting late and the state of things<\/p>\n

requires that sensitivity attention brings;<\/p>\n

the precision of decision<\/p>\n

the gift of the incision that cuts the bonds to the old –<\/p>\n

something climbs…<\/p>\n


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These are the times.<\/p>\n


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We are served by our fear, present and here<\/p>\n

and escaping the fantasy of skill<\/p>\n

letting the messiness fill<\/p>\n

the spaces that lie between us.<\/p>\n


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The flux between optimism and the cynicism that<\/p>\n

paralyses our lives,<\/p>\n

leaves us to foster the faster<\/p>\n

speed of work and communicate the state of things:<\/p>\n

listen to the planet’s song. It fills our structures<\/p>\n

and brings along a new life that comes when we fall<\/p>\n

into the possibility that the micro births the macro,<\/p>\n

the large from the small.<\/p>\n


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Practice moving to courage from fear<\/p>\n

letting go of what is no longer clear.<\/p>\n


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Back to your corners<\/p>\n

find those of like mind and appear together<\/p>\n

as good people, impatient but kind.<\/p>\n


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Everywhere it is time to collaborate<\/p>\n

create and elaborate<\/p>\n

containers of capacity that resonate.<\/p>\n


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Time to come home, switch it on<\/p>\n

dance between poles, rest in centre,<\/p>\n

this time of change is a mentor<\/p>\n

teaching courage to<\/p>\n

reach back to places where each<\/p>\n

small effort is supported by this trembling field.<\/p>\n


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Our tools are not enough \u2013 the challenge remains:<\/p>\n

connect to source and course through each other’s veins.<\/p>\n


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A poem harvested from participants’ reflections from a World Cafe at the Shambhala Institute for Authentice Leadership, June 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean-Sebastien is alive with rock balancing. \u00a0 He and his mates are decorating the whole campus with sculptures. \u00a0 He has become one of our rock balancing senseis here at the Institute and it’s very cool to see what he is learning from the practice. \u00a0 Today, just before our module started, he was sitting with me in the centre of the circle and he asked if here was something to knowing which kinds of edges would sit together, and as he took his mind off the task of balancing, in the act of asking the questions, the rocks he …<\/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":[29,9,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-hosting","category-learning","category-organization","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-mK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","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=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}