{"id":2195,"date":"2009-07-21T07:49:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2009-07-21T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T15:49:37","slug":"holding-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/holding-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My friend Adam Yukelson wrote and asked me about how I hold questions instead of goals:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I was speaking with Gabe Donnelly last night and she was sharing a conversation the two of you had last year in which you said you don&#8217;t set goals, but rather, live in a question or questions. \u00a0 We were both drawn to this idea, and curious how it works for you. \u00a0 Do these questions tend to be broad and existential? \u00a0 Short-term and specific? \u00a0 Both? \u00a0 Neither? \u00a0 Are there subsets of questions? \u00a0 How do you know when a new question has emerged?  I&#8217;d love to hear a little more&#8230;.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They tend to be both&#8230;for a while now I&#8217;ve been carying these questions with me&#8230;they are varied and they take different forms and they even come and go, but they lead me into fascinating places:  \u00a0Sometimes they appear as research projects, other times they are direct and specific, and sometimes they float, nebulous and seem to inform everything I do.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the role of community in organizations?<\/li>\n<li>What are the essential practices of hosting that can be taught?<\/li>\n<li>How do we build relational fields between people?<\/li>\n<li>What are the ways I can express myself in song?<\/li>\n<li>How can I use body practice more in my work and life?<\/li>\n<li>What can my daughter and I do to co-create a shared learning journey?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The community question seems to be the most broad and pervasive in my work right now and I&#8217;ve held that for over a year.  \u00a0It helps me to see things the same way, for example, as when you buy a new car and then notice that everyone else seems to be driving the same car as you.  \u00a0The second and third questions relate to learning new ways to teach and communicate what people want to learn from me about hosting.  \u00a0The last three questions are about my life and practice as an artist and a father.  \u00a0I don&#8217;t have these questions written down anywhere, I just sort of hold them lightly and they focus my attention.<\/div>\n<div>What are the questions you hold?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Adam Yukelson wrote and asked me about how I hold questions instead of goals: I was speaking with Gabe Donnelly last night and she was sharing a conversation the two of you had last year in which you said you don&#8217;t set goals, but rather, live in a question or questions. \u00a0 We were both drawn to this idea, and curious how it works for you. \u00a0 Do these questions tend to be broad and existential? \u00a0 Short-term and specific? \u00a0 Both? \u00a0 Neither? \u00a0 Are there subsets of questions? \u00a0 How do you know when a new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[10,34,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-flow","category-invitation","category-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-zp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","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=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}