{"id":3193,"date":"2011-02-23T23:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2011-02-23T23:08:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:08:36","slug":"clarity-through-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/clarity-through-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarity Through Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely description of what happens when the magic of conversation flows.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This past weekend I had the opportunity to be part of a Quaker-style \u201cclearness committee\u201d\u009d with a few twists thrown in. \u00a0 I have done a few similar sessions in the past, though it has been a while, and once again it proved to be a remarkable experience. \u00a0 The impetus for the session was a friend who, acknowledging that she is at a crossroads in her life and career, reached out for help with discernment. \u00a0 My wife, Emily, and I suggested convening a small group of people who know her well to lovingly listen to the core question with which she is wrestling. \u00a0 Over the course of the two and a half hours we were together, there was an amazing peeling away of layers that occurred as we asked questions and watched for what either brought our friend to life or weighed her down. \u00a0 By the end of the evening, she was excitedly looking at very real and enlivening opportunities in what she had previously perceived as being frivolous or \u201conce I win the lottery\u201d\u009d kinds of scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/interactioninstitute.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/clarity-through-community\/\">Clarity Through Community  \u00ab Interaction Institute for Social Change Blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely description of what happens when the magic of conversation flows. This past weekend I had the opportunity to be part of a Quaker-style \u201cclearness committee\u201d\u009d with a few twists thrown in. \u00a0 I have done a few similar sessions in the past, though it has been a while, and once again it proved to be a remarkable experience. \u00a0 The impetus for the session was a friend who, acknowledging that she is at a crossroads in her life and career, reached out for help with discernment. \u00a0 My wife, Emily, and I suggested convening a small group of &#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":[29,48,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-hosting","category-community","category-conversation","category-facilitation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-Pv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","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=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}