{"id":1564,"date":"2008-09-03T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2008-09-03T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:43:00","slug":"a-summer-of-reading-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/a-summer-of-reading-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer of reading friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3087\/2827410072_98cbdc958b_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"053\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have a stack of books I am working my way through this summer, and they are all written by friends.  \u00a0I think this is pretty remarkable actually.  \u00a0From the top down, here is what&#8217;s on my reading table:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseagreen.com\/bookstore\/item\/finding_the_sweet_spot:paperback\">Finding the Sweet Spot<\/a> by Dave Pollard.  \u00a0This one just arrived this evening, although I read a proof that Dave sent along.  \u00a0It&#8217;s typical of his writing, and will be a familiar tome for regular readers of his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0002007\/\">How To Save The World<\/a>.  \u00a0The book outlines a path for creating a life of sustainable work and enterprise using his well developed model of natural entrepreneurship.  \u00a0It&#8217;s a brilliant, accessible and portable guide to saving your own ass and the world along with it.  \u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingarthursreturn.com\/index.html\">The Return of King Arthur<\/a> by Diana Durham.  \u00a0Diana was with us at the Art of Hosting stewards gathering in Carleton Nova Scotia this summer, working with her partner Jon to make a film about some of the work we are doing.  \u00a0Diana&#8217;s book is a deep exploration of the powerful myths and archetypes of self-knowledge and transformation.  \u00a0She goes far into the western European tradition and to show the essential pathways on the journey to mastery.  \u00a0It&#8217;s an incredible book.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Howe-Sounds-Fiction-Fantasy-Anthology\/dp\/0969909004\">Howe Sounds<\/a>, an anthology of Bowen Island writing.  \u00a0My home island is known in Canada for being a haven for writers and this anthology, published way back in 1994 showcased a number of them including Nick Bantock, Robert Bringhurst, Victor Chan and Jim Kearny.  \u00a0A few current friends are anthologized here too including Brad Ovenell-Carter (wriiing about bread, about which he an I are passionate) and Julie Ovenell-Carter who is known as a travel writer and who contributed a poem writtne for her young daughter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/glave.com\/\">Almost Green<\/a> by my friend and neighbour James Glave.  \u00a0James has written a book that is both deadly serious and achingly funny about the middle class grasping towards sustainability.  \u00a0The book charts his journey to build the most ecologically sustainable sturcture possible &#8211; what turns out to be an eco-shed studio space.  \u00a0Along the way he talks about the economics of sustainability and why the middle classes in North America are destined to remain almost green.  \u00a0The book is honest and changes very few name to protect the guilty.  \u00a0When it was released in July, Islanders kept popping into the bookstore just to see if they were in it.  \u00a0If you want a taste of James phenomenal writing, download his ebook on deer hunting, <a href=\"http:\/\/glave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buckthesystem.pdf\">Buck The System<\/a>.  \u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthillsite.com\/\">Teaching an Anthill to Fetch<\/a> by Stephen Joyce.  \u00a0Stephen sent me this book a while ago and then I ended up meeting him at an Art of Hosting we did in Cochrane, Alberta in June.  \u00a0The book is a how to guide to developing collaborative intellegence in the workplace and goes through anumber of tools that meaders, team members and managers can easily adopt to begin their learning about leveraging collaborative intellegence.  \u00a0It&#8217;s accessible and it also points in many directions and invites readers to go deeper.  \u00a0A very practical introduction to the field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide\/dp\/1576754766\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1220510410&amp;sr=1-1\">Open Space Technology: A User&#8217;s Guide<\/a> by Harrison Owen.  \u00a0This is the third edition of Harrison&#8217;s guide and it&#8217;s updated with several new pieces about action planning, and wupporting the client.  \u00a0The community has had a bigger hand in this version than in previous versions and Harrison has gathered the wisdom that makes sense and recast it in his amicable style.  \u00a0This is really a classice in the field of facilitation methodology.  \u00a0It&#8217;s dead simple to use and is really all you need to set up and run an Open Space meeting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippiechickreunion.com\/\">Hippie Chick Reunion<\/a> by Kathryn Barber.  \u00a0Yet another Art of Hosting companion, I met Kathryn in Florida in May and this book lay at the bottom of my suitcase for a couple of months before Kathryn prodded me to read it.  \u00a0On the surface it is a story about a group of women reuniting in 2001 to celebrate the protagonist&#8217;s 50th birthday.  \u00a0They were a wild bunch back in the day, and their memories are vividly relived.  \u00a0Under the surface though Kathryn has written a parable for social evolution, and the book is highly indebted to Ken Wilber&#8217;s integral models and Don Becks Spiral Dynamics as it weaves the worldviews of the characters together in a dynamic tale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So that&#8217;s it for this summer.  \u00a0There are more books on the horizon that friends are working on or have just published including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.com\/waveriders.htm\">Harrison Owen&#8217;s latest<\/a> on high performance work teams, Patti Digh&#8217;s newest <a href=\"http:\/\/37days.typepad.com\/\">Life Is A Verb<\/a>, Jack Ricchiuto and George Nemeth&#8217;s collaboration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intentionalmodel.com\/\">Instructions from the Cook<\/a>, and Adam Kahane&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhalainstitute.org\/Fieldnotes\/issue-13-kahane\">forthcoming book<\/a> on the languages of love and power, so lots of interesting stuff to read from the interesting people in my life.  \u00a0If you&#8217;re working on a book let me know and I&#8217;ll add it to my library.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I have a stack of books 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