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Pattern entrainment is one of our biggest problems – Chris Corrigan. In the last year of applying Cynefin theory to my practice I’v e made a few conclusions about things.

Pattern entrainment is one of our biggest problems – Chris Corrigan

One of these is that what Dave Snowdon calls “pattern entrainment” is probably our achilles heel as a species. Pattern entrainment is the idea that once our brains learn something, it is very difficult to break that knowledge. Power-of-a-Good-Question. Power-of-a-Good-Question. A Design Narrative for Three Days. Last week I worked with my partner Teresa Posakony, three good people from The Athena Group — Faith Trimble, Paul Horton, Steve Byers, and one “apprentice,” Ali Kingfisher who has worked many years in government, who is already a gifted host.

A Design Narrative for Three Days

Our offering together was a 3-day, The Art of Participative Leadership: Building Cultures of Innovation and Collective Impact. Our process for working together as a team includes phone calls leading up to the event. We plan together. We encourage invitations together. Capacity Building - What are we learning about apprenticeship? - Google Docs. Itasca County, MN – Art of Hosting Works – Background, Application and Impact. In just over one year, community citizens of Itasca County, who were not familiar with the term Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, went from showing up at the first three day training in November 2013 with a healthy mix of curiosity and scepticism, to hosting a one day community wide conversation at the first ever Grand Gathering of Itasca County just one year later that attracted over 85 people who engaged in 50+ conversations that mattered over a five hour period.

Itasca County, MN – Art of Hosting Works – Background, Application and Impact

How does a community do this? By being passionate about influencing their future and believing it is possible. Participants understand that good community conversations on important issues offer everyone who shows up the opportunity to speak openly and without fear, to be listened to authentically and respectfully, and to leave feeling an ownership in the outcomes of their conversations. Community or civic engagement is also about accountability and commitment, a request not only to show up but to engage. Like this: Stealth Hosting. Inevitably in an Art of Hosting training someone will ask about how to bring AoH patterns and practices to a group or organization that is not familiar with AoH and may not be ready to receive them with open arms.

Stealth Hosting

When we say, “That is when you use ‘stealth hosting’”, people laugh and the room lights up. Jerry Nagel and I, and colleagues we co-host with regularly, almost always start an AoH training with PeerSpirit circle practice. It sets the tone for the whole training. While most people love entering this space, find the opening practices thoughtful and calm, slowing the frenetic pace many are caught up in, inviting people to take a breath, to show up in the fullness of who they are, the thought of bringing it to their organization, understandably, gives them pause.

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Learning the Edges: Reflections on Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics. Three of us at percolab (Samantha, Paul, and myself) attended the Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics training in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia (May 15-17, 2014).

Learning the Edges: Reflections on Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics

These three days were intended as a privileged space for all of us to go deeper into our work. What was offered to us was the opportunity to join into the enquiry of seasoned Art of Hosting practitioners: Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Chis Corrigan, Tim Merry, and Caitlyn Frost. All four are exploring the recurring themes and patterns in their own work. We were invited to delve how these themes inform our own work and our practice as hosts – and maybe even poke into what makes us uncomfortable. Learning edges: Depth, Breadth, Power, and Friendship. Learning the Edges: Reflections on Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics. Un processus d’innovation produit pour réinventer l’expérience de classe nature.

En février dernier, l’équipe de Grisvert a été mandaté pour accompagner le Collège Letendre dans la création d’un nouveau concept de classe nature pour ses installations à Villégiature Matawinie.

Un processus d’innovation produit pour réinventer l’expérience de classe nature

Quel beau projet qu’est celui de refaire vivre la magie des classes nature, ce symbole qui a marqué nos années du primaire et du secondaire! Afin de cocréer le nouveau concept de classe nature, des professionnels oeuvrant dans des industries connexes ou complémentaires telles que le plein air, la culture et le tourisme, le milieu scolaire et parascolaire, etc., ont été réunis. Valoriser et honorer l’expertise dans les processus participatifs.

Comme beaucoup de praticiens des méthodes collaboratives, nous sommes parfois confrontés à la difficulté de concilier le rôle des experts avec les processus d’intelligence collective.

Valoriser et honorer l’expertise dans les processus participatifs

Valoriser et honorer l’expertise dans les processus participatifs. Valoriser et honorer l’expertise dans les processus participatifs. The Art of Participatory Leadership. I had the opportunity to participate in a gathering called The Art of Participatory Leadership, which is defined as "an intensive 3-day event where you experience and practice a set of simple, yet powerful, processes for building community, facilitating powerful conversations, building strong partnerships, and leading change.

The Art of Participatory Leadership

" While I have experienced several of the approaches before, such as World Café, what I discovered was that when a group is together for several days in this kind of generative space there is a fundamentally different quality and impact of the experience. In contrast, the typical way that meetings are structured (e.g., a tight agenda focused on efficiently reaching desired outcomes) feels like a constraining straightjacket in terms of how much creativity, connection and innovation is actually possible within any group.

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The Art of Complex Problem Solving. Storytelling in Social Leadership – a first draft. We need a new style of leadership for the Social Age: a style that is based upon our ability to collaborate and share within communities, to create meaning in the moment, to build our personal reputation and rely on this (more than hierarchical forms of power) to get things done.

Storytelling in Social Leadership – a first draft

Social leadership is about ethical decision making and acting with integrity and transparency to deliver the promises of a new social contract, where employer and employee both need to find value. We need to shape stories, find the core narrative, rehearse the words then release them into the community There are three core areas within my NET model of social leadership: ‘narrative‘, ‘engagement‘ and ‘technology‘. Each area has three individual components and, through a series of articles, i’m exploring each one in turn. I’ve already explored ‘curation‘, today i’m turning to ‘storytelling‘. Www.theworldcafe.com/translations/Art-of-Powerful-questions-FRA.pdf. Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity. Photography: Webb Chappell Over nearly four decades, Ellen Langer’s research on mindfulness has greatly influenced thinking across a range of fields, from behavioral economics to positive psychology.

Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity

It reveals that by paying attention to what’s going on around us, instead of operating on auto-pilot, we can reduce stress, unlock creativity, and boost performance. Her “counterclockwise” experiments, for example, demonstrated that elderly men could improve their health by simply acting as if it were 20 years earlier. In this interview with senior editor Alison Beard, Langer applies her thinking to leadership and management in an age of increasing chaos.

HBR: Let’s start with the basics. Langer: Mindfulness is the process of actively noticing new things. We all seek stability. Take work processes. What are some of the specific benefits of being more mindful, according to your research? Better performance, for one. “I also tell people about work/life integration, not balance. Yes. Reflections on Art of Hosting and the Commons. Link between Art of Hosting and Commons - The Art of Hosting. ‎www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/special/CivicEngagement/web_boxes/Attach%201%20CE%20Revised%20WNA%20Handbook%2012.20.13%20resize.pdf. Make Sense/Hold Up Introduction. Www.animafac.net/assets/Guides-pratiques/guidedebattre-autrement.pdf. How to organize a MakeSense Hold-Up ? Sustaining the results - AoH BTB. Permaculture Research Institute - Permaculture Forums, Courses, Information, News and Worldwide Reports.

Photo by Lisa DePiano Permaculture as a movement has most of the knowledge, tools and resources that we need to create a regenerative society in the physical sense. Dans la boîte. Www.lemniscaatacademie.be/Lemniscaatacademie/PARTICIPATIEVE_METHODEN_files/world_cafe_flyer_4.0_FR.pdf. Leadership? The Future of Leading…the art of hosting. Is it possible to lead and be led at the same time? Might the leader be the quietest person in the room; invisible, even? What happens when there are no pre-agreed rules of engagement amongst those that you are leading? Does chaos or harmony ensue? IAF Methods Database. Leadership in Age of Complexity - Leadership-in-Age-of-Complexity.pdf.

Stewardship

Collective story harvest. Monique Svazlian, CPCC: The Future of Work: the Art of Collaborative Leadership. The way we work is shifting. We see that in subtle ways and other times in not so subtle ways. Even traditional companies like Deloitte are investing in people development , realizing that it is the best resource they have to stay ahead of the curve. Those with a real competitive advantage intuitively understand innovation and creativity as essential to meeting market demands and crucial in facing our collective sustainability challenges. The future of work as we know it is shifting from an outdated directive approach toward collaborative frameworks that inspire us to engage in new and different ways with our work and with each other.

This elusive concept has always intrigued and intimidated me, so I began to question my own assumptions I held about collaboration. Decision by Consensus? One of the big beliefs I made up about collaborative work was that one most come to decisions by consensus; if there were any outliers, you could not forge ahead. Leaning In vs. Vulnerability as Strength. A list of methods, tools, and resources for harvesting (5-23-13).docx. Collective Agency.

Organisations vivantes

It's not Magic, It's Your Creatively Unique Purpose. My 2 cents on purpose today - based on lessons learned from years of cultivating, evolving and living my purposeful work...and working with others to do the same. Purpose and Synchronicity When we first start living into our purpose, we notice more "synchronicities" in our every day life - those seemingly unrelated happenings that come together in an unplanned, yet meaningfully and uniquely relateable way for us.

They often seem like an uncanny answer to something we have been thinking about. How to structure, design and understand collaboration. Video: Monica spricht über "What is special about AoH?" - the Art of Hosting Wien. World Café… des conversations significatives sur des questions importantes « Carrefour de l'innovation sociale. Limits of Conversational Structure.

The Art Of Collaboration. (image via mackink) [A version of this post also appeared on the Social Innovation Generation blog] We removed our wet boots at the entrance to L’Espace La Fontaine on a typical snowy February morning in Montreal. Located in the middle of a park with a skate rental shop downstairs and a frozen lake nearby, the upstairs of the building had been transformed to host about 115 men and women to participate in The Art of Hosting – a three-day workshop exploring how to create spaces for meaningful conversations. In the wake of 2012 Quebec university student protests, the participants were eager to tackle social problems with fresh ideas.