{"id":5863,"date":"2018-04-30T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2018-04-30T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T23:52:02","slug":"a-journey-towards-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/a-journey-towards-mastery\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey towards mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, I have been thinking a lot about what it means to develop artistic mastery in facilitation\/hosting practice. It&#8217;s an important topic to me because I teach this work, and it&#8217;s not always easy to design deep learning when people are expecting to become instantly good at facilitation after a single workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The Art of Hosting is a practice founded on tools, rooted in theory. It takes time to understand and integrate this practice and become masterful at it. I often draw parallels between learning the practice and development of mastery in the arts.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was sharing my experience in a kind of cheeky way with some other Art of Hosting stewards, and I wrote the following, which seems helpful:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The 14 steps of the artist&#8217;s journey to mastery (based on the last 30 years of my experience)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Cultivate the desire to create beauty<br \/>\n2. Discover a medium for doing so<br \/>\n3. Seek the teachers who can teach you how to use the tools of your medium faithfully<br \/>\n4. Use the tools faithfully to make simple things.<br \/>\n5. Ask why things work and why they don\u2019t<br \/>\n6. With that knowledge, modify your tools to do what needs to be done beyond simplicity.<br \/>\n7. Discover the limitations of your tools.<br \/>\n8. Become a tool maker<br \/>\n9. Take on apprentices and teach them to use the tools faithfully to make simple things<br \/>\n10. Take on apprentices and help them reflect on why they are succeeding and failing.<br \/>\n11. I don\u2019t know\u2026I haven\u2019t got there yet<br \/>\n12. Unimaginable to me, but I see it.<br \/>\n13. Wow.<br \/>\n14. The unrealized ideal master that I aspire to become, should I be given more than one lifetime to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, be aware of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>self-doubt<\/li>\n<li>errors at different scales<\/li>\n<li>mistakes and regret<\/li>\n<li>joy and surprise<\/li>\n<li>the desire of others to learn from you<\/li>\n<li>the feeling that you have nothing to offer them<\/li>\n<li>times of steep learning and times of long periods of integration<\/li>\n<li>waxing and waning of inspiration<\/li>\n<li>Rule 6a applies at all times (an inside joke: Rule 6a is &#8220;Don&#8217;t take yourself too f*cking seriously)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, I have been thinking a lot about what it means to develop artistic mastery in facilitation\/hosting practice. It&#8217;s an important topic to me because I teach this work, and it&#8217;s not always easy to design deep learning when people are expecting to become instantly good at facilitation after a single workshop. The Art of Hosting is a practice founded on tools, rooted in theory. It takes time to understand and integrate this practice and become masterful at it. I often draw parallels between learning the practice and development of mastery in the arts. 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