{"id":495,"date":"2004-07-09T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=495"},"modified":"2004-07-09T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T18:21:05","slug":"live-from-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/live-from-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from Chicago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving conference is happening, and we have just finished the first sessions.  I attended a session offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/giving\/givingwiki.cgi?RuthannPrange\">RuthAnn Prange<\/a> who was floating the idea of convening a conference of facilitators who work for the common good..  The idea came out of her work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listeningtothecity.org\/\">Listening to the City project<\/a> in New York in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Basically Ruthann&#8217;s idea is top convene a conference of facilitators who work for the common good, whether that is within business organizations, communities or elsewhere.  It seems as if there is a community evolving of facilitators who do this and a gathering of some kind, perhaps evolving into a network would be a way of sharing skills, experiences, tools and honing purpose.<\/p>\n<p>One metaphor we were talking about was one that came to me from astronomy.  When looking through small scopes at a faint nebula, tapping the scope slightly will often resolve the structure of the body.  There were a number of great conributions that went into a tentative inivtation which RuthAnn will share out with us at some point, leading towards a conference.  If that interests you, or you have any ideas for her, leave a comment here or on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/giving\/givingwiki.cgi?ConferenceProceedings\">conference wiki page.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving conference is happening, and we have just finished the first sessions. I attended a session offered by RuthAnn Prange who was floating the idea of convening a conference of facilitators who work for the common good.. The idea came out of her work with the Listening to the City project in New York in 2002. Basically Ruthann&#8217;s idea is top convene a conference of facilitators who work for the common good, whether that is within business organizations, communities or elsewhere. It seems as if there is a community evolving of facilitators who do this and a gathering of some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-7Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}