{"id":18669,"date":"2025-09-04T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=18669"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:28:57","slug":"free-mini-books-about-dialogic-practice-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/free-mini-books-about-dialogic-practice-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Free mini-books about dialogic practice now available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve written nearly 3000 entries on my blog ranging from short notes and links to long essays and collections of writing. Of interest to facilitators and dialogue practitioners, I am publishing some of these as mini-books, in pdf form which you can now download for free.  All I ask in return is that you leave me a little note if you find these useful or interesting. I&#8217;m curious how they are informing your practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the first three:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZIQ4pxdfYlpicfolM16JeN--hy1TB36U\/view\">A life lived in the four-fold practice: my journey in the Art of Hosting<\/a>. A set of essays on the Art of Hosting, illustrated with stories from my own life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1PS1it4qKriTZOxdQyb5DqUT56vza5igt\/view?usp=share_link\">The Two Loops Model: A Living System of Change.<\/a>\u00a0A set of essays on the two loops and how to apply it in organizational and community life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheTaoOfHoldingSpace\">The Tao of Holding Space.<\/a>&nbsp;This book explores the practice of holding space by reinterpreting the Tao te Ching. While written for Open Space facilitators, it has wide application across a number of facilitation approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You will find more of my writing, interviews, videos and podcasts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/books-and-papers\/\">on their own page.<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve written nearly 3000 entries on my blog ranging from short notes and links to long essays and collections of writing. Of interest to facilitators and dialogue practitioners, I am publishing some of these as mini-books, in pdf form which you can now download for free. All I ask in return is that you leave me a little note if you find these useful or interesting. I&#8217;m curious how they are informing your practices. Here are the first three: You will find more of my writing, interviews, videos and podcasts on their own page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18670,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facilitation","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5518-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4R7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669","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=18669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18713,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions\/18713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}