Chris Corrigan
Football in the bleaker places
We can see what you’re doing
Opening day! Excitement for Rovers, meh for my other teams.
West Side Story, estuarine thinking, and the art of hosting
Cynthia Kurtz has a new set of PNI practicum offerings
Unrelenting Wave
Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness
Sunk by the Fleet
Leaky times
Staring over the edge
Why we create music
Seasons change
Farewell to Europe
Groove and harmony are different things
The role of the complexity practitioner
Humpbacks in Howe Sound
If Job was a sports fan…
A new definition of anthro-complexity
Spots still open for our Art of Hosting April 27-29
Connection and disconnection and reconnection
What’s the nature of our relationship with the USA
An old song about the war in the Gulf
Theory for practice 3: The ecology of dialogic containers and making change
All seven Cynefin Co. frameworks
20 years on this platform
The stability that never comes
A bunch of stuff to give you hope and frustration
Sports!
37 MLAs voted to repeal the human rights of British Columbians
Daniel Lapp and Quinn Bachand: Astonishing joy
Making beauty together
Bowen Island resources
Help us create and install a Squamish welcome figure on Bowen Island
How to find good things
Tenor of the times
Heartbreak.
Good leaders cultivate disagreement
The baseline for Bowen Island’s development
Some really shitty stuff
Jesse Jackson has died
Get a grip
The performance that changed everything
Transfiguration
Love is the reason you are here
My spark bird
I have deleted my Facebook account
Truth and power
Watching others be great
Face to face helps agreements to endure…
Footballers hit their next level
The moment we walked away from the climate crisis
Theory for Practice 2: Holding space
Play the piano (or guitar) you’re given
Havel, Carney and living in truth
Dealing with projections
Gratitude for connections and thoughtful essays on how we think about the world
Good articles on Aboriginal title and the Cowichan decision
Theory for practice 1: why theory matters for facilitation practice
Getting to know you: a new card game and immigration issues
Sports this weekend
A course outline for participatory leadership
The energy of violence and peace
Arising out of apathy
Notes from the road
Where do we learn how to write?
Tracking the shape of a play
Fernando Passoa’s heteronyms
Quiet New Year’s Day
“Food is the great connector and laughs are the cement”
Some more thoughts on religion
It’s surprisingly tricky to define “religion,” and that’s good thing
Noticing containers
Enduring
Black holes and speculation
AFCON is on!
Welcome at YVR
At the turning of the year
Looking again with awe
Rainy day randoms
Unpredictable stuff happening
Some research on the Art of Hosting and education
Leading in tension
An Art of Hosting in the woods
A year of confronting complexity
Hope and atmospheric rivers
The utopian future of public participation
Water water everywhere
Closing tabs: stories, trade wars, the internet and tools
A new name for a new bridge
A litany of becoming, etc.
Speculation is interesting
Principles, noticings and football
Every year…
A monster of an atmospheric river.
Some thoughts on a Human-AI facilitation Manifesto
Hope and despair and all points in between
A collection of good reads I haven’t completely read yet
Feeling the season of transitions and thresholds
Canada’s week of oil pipeline talk and how we can all help to rid our country of Scott Moe
Canada’s new weather alert system
Re-memory lane
AI and the need for your authentic voice
Entanglement
Rengeneration
Cultural body snatching
A Friday morning spent perusing interesting things
So much local
Asking the questions
Notes on Tribal basketball, underfunded education, the World Cup, impossible things and Nora Bateson’s work.
Women’s soccer on the Rise
Climate leadership does not exist in North America
Vancouver Rise go to the Cup Final
Ottawa and some poems.
Please, let us REALLY do reconciliation
Happy blog-iversary to one of the originals
The dangerous seduction of AI in public policy
The Blue Jays discover that love is everything
Nostalghia, bad movies, and wandering through an Ottawa night
Life elsewhere, difference, and SPORTS!
My new favourite complexity teacher
A lifetime of appreciating self-organization in groups
Noticing the signals
The intangibles: Bill Torbert, systems change and baseball.
A day for pluviophiles
Chaos mongering and the topography of joy
Stability in dialogic containers
Space, of all kinds.
Participation and experience
Mourning the loss of invitation
Dire moments in Canadian sports
Happy Thanksgiving!
On the road in the international window
The fabric of community
Notes on GDP, travelling and place.
How we fund things
Lead from the place of longest connection
Lights in the sky on Haida Gwaii
Long days at “the office”
Rain on Haida Gwaii
Building deeper capacity for uncertainty and complexity
A fall day full of footballs
Tools for working with conflict and polarization
Letting go, to get somewhere
Cleaning up
Raging at the audacity of austerity
Living true reconciliation