Comments on: Day two at Shambhala http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1410 Alive in the process arts Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:20:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Corrigan http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1410&cpage=1#comment-422663 Chris Corrigan Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:23:44 +0000 http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1410#comment-422663 That's a great observation Dustin. David and I are trying to crack this while we are here at Shambhala, and evidently he had some insights today to report on later. That’s a great observation Dustin. David and I are trying to crack this while we are here at Shambhala, and evidently he had some insights today to report on later.

]]> By: Dustin Rivers http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1410&cpage=1#comment-421338 Dustin Rivers Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:51:26 +0000 http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1410#comment-421338 The paradigms you speak of is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Specifically the "fifth" paradigms in this organizational stuff. I've had conversations with my mother, who sits on SN Council, about governance and decolonization. The capitalist employee sector within in First Nation (read: band council government) is something very difficult to reconcile in decolonizing our governance. I mean, the inequality within pay structures, let alone the authoritarian nature of capitalist hierarchical structures. The fifth paradigm is something very common in historical governance structures for my people. The siyam was not a position above everyone, but apart of that coming together of all the other sectors of the organization of community. Compartmentalization within Western civilization (if it really is "civilized") is something un-indigenous, I think. Within schooling, work, livelihood. Very cool Chris, you've sparked me on a thought path. Let's see where it goes! The paradigms you speak of is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Specifically the “fifth” paradigms in this organizational stuff. I’ve had conversations with my mother, who sits on SN Council, about governance and decolonization. The capitalist employee sector within in First Nation (read: band council government) is something very difficult to reconcile in decolonizing our governance. I mean, the inequality within pay structures, let alone the authoritarian nature of capitalist hierarchical structures.

The fifth paradigm is something very common in historical governance structures for my people. The siyam was not a position above everyone, but apart of that coming together of all the other sectors of the organization of community. Compartmentalization within Western civilization (if it really is “civilized”) is something un-indigenous, I think. Within schooling, work, livelihood.

Very cool Chris, you’ve sparked me on a thought path. Let’s see where it goes!

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