Chris Corrigan

If you were popping around here on Nexwlelexwm (Bowen Island) over the past couple of days, you might have remarked to folks that the weather seems a bit weird. We’ve had a volatile week of spring weather, with heavy rain, different kinds of winds, a front of thunderstorms and clear skies. It is interesting to listen to people talk about the weather. The patterns are different. The air is warmer, but has a bit of a chill on the breeze. The wind is coming from different angles and the trees are moving differently. In fact southerly and westerly winds on …

The door of our local pharmacy, a couple of days after the COVID-19 health emergency was declared in March 2020. Journal entries from March 12 and 13, 2020, remembering the first days of lock down and the day that the world changed. I started keeping a decisions journal to track the things I was doing and why. Here are the first two days of entries. March 12, 2020 Newxlelexwm Bowen Island. Cancellations. Of everything. First coaching call with a client about how to bring their events online. Systems awareness helps us to bring our capacities on line. Me. Feeling generally …

I think it was 1986-87 academic year that I truly fell in love with the idea of culture. That was the year I began my BA in Indigenous Studies at Trent University and it was during a time when Indigenous cultures in Canada were going through a generational resurgence after recovering from 100 years of state-sponsored cultural, physical and intellectual extinction. I was able to be a witness to communities and organizations recovering by growing deep into traditional practices, and younger generations receiving the teaching of Elders and using them to create new political movements, organizations, economies, governments, and health …

A participant from a 2018 complexity workshop I ran in The Hague, reflecting on an experience. From a piece in The Walrus by Troy Jollimore, a philosophy professor, on his evolving relationship to students, AI and education: The use of AI already seems so natural to so many of them, so much an inevitability and an accepted feature of the educational landscape, that any prohibition strikes them as nonsensical. Don’t we instructors understand that today’s students will be able, will indeed be expected, to use AI when they enter the workforce? Writing is no longer something people will have to do …

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A few little lessons about “changing culture”

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To think, to write, to learn, to empathize

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