{"id":4940,"date":"2015-09-23T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2015-09-23T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:59:32","slug":"what-it-means-to-be-free-to-engage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/what-it-means-to-be-free-to-engage\/","title":{"rendered":"What it means to be free to engage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin and I<\/a> are hosting a learning process for the Vancouver Foundation which has brought together 11 people from community foundations around BC. \u00a0We are trying to discover\u00a0what kinds of new practices\u00a0community foundations can adopt to roll with the changing nature of philanthropy and community.<\/p>\n

It’s a classic complexity problem. \u00a0The future is unknowable and unpredictable. \u00a0Data is plentiful but not helpful because context trumps all. \u00a0There are competing experts with different hypotheses of what should happen. \u00a0These twelve people are brave. \u00a0They’re willing to be the innovators in a sector that is by nature fairly conservative when it comes to change.<\/p>\n

We are using an architecture combining Theory U and complexity work coming from Cynefin practices. \u00a0I can maybe write more about our design later, but today I’m struck by a comment one of our participants made when she was reflecting on the past three months of engaging in deep dialogue interviews with people in her community. \u00a0She talked to a number of people as a way of beginning to understand the context for making change, and noticed that the conversations she was having were taking her away from the rigid roles and responsibilities (and the associated posturing) that comes with trying to do interesting work in a hierarchical, top down and controlling way. \u00a0Today in our check in she shared this:<\/p>\n

“When we are given permission to talk to anyone about anything it’s freeing. \u00a0We let our roles drop as well our limiting beliefs about what we can and can’t do. \u00a0We are able to more closely align our actions and our way of being with our intentions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A pithy but powerful statement in how changing the way we converse changes the way we are able to act. \u00a0It’s lovely witnessing the birth of a complexity worker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caitlin and I are hosting a learning process for the Vancouver Foundation which has brought together 11 people from community foundations around BC. \u00a0We are trying to discover\u00a0what kinds of new practices\u00a0community foundations can adopt to roll with the changing nature of philanthropy and community. It’s a classic complexity problem. \u00a0The future is unknowable and unpredictable. \u00a0Data is plentiful but not helpful because context trumps all. \u00a0There are competing experts with different hypotheses of what should happen. \u00a0These twelve people are brave. \u00a0They’re willing to be the innovators in a sector that is by nature fairly conservative when it comes …<\/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":"What it means to be free to engage. #conversation #complexity #learning #leadership #TheoryU #cynefin","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":[53,19,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-conversation","category-learning","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-1hG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}