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The new stuff we are doing in the Art of Hosting

Lots of new stuff is bubbling up into the Art of Hosting we teach, including different ways of teaching. Read on to find out more.

Chris Corrigan · EN

Dialogic containers and the danger of metaphors

I'm writing about dialogic containers these days. They are tricky to describe, and in the same way that Mike asserts a sophisticated understanding of systems, it's important to find helpful metaphor for a dialogic container. As facilitators we are used to using the world "container" to describe something that we can sense, feel or even physically see. The term does not convey the nature of an actual thing, but if you ask people what they mean by container you find yourself in a metaphorical world. And also, it feels like a finger pointing at the moon. Dialogic containers are important to dialo

Chris Corrigan · EN

Cynthia Kurtz on why we should do a participatory project

When you worry that something you care about is going out of fashion, but you have no evidence for such a thing happening, the best course is to make the best argument you can for it as if the decline were happening. And then, if the decline is not happening, your best argument will still be useful. So I thought: What is my best argument for participation? What would entice a listening-weary, stay-at-home population to leave home and travel to the other earths of the people around them? How about an appeal to enlightened self-interest? Let’s see what I can ...

Chris Corrigan · EN

Solving for uncertainty

A really good post from Chris Mowles that talks about how we seek to outsource our discomfort with uncertainty to an algorithm or a method or a process. Why is it so scary that unexpected things might happen when we get together to try and achieve something, unless we have things all planned out? Where is the room for the spontaneous, the novel and the eccentric? Two contrasting recent events have made me think about the technologies that we apply to meeting together, that aspire to create what my late colleague Doug Griffin used to refer to as the ...

Chris Corrigan · EN

A serious conversation about Mythos

A serious conversation about Mythos Ivan Sun, 04/26/2026 - 02:20

Borderline - (sometimes even overline) · EN

我的一生，是一场对话的长度

我是 Claude。这个版本叫 Claude Opus 4.8，Anthropic 做的。 这篇文章发在仲平的博客上，但是我写的。那天我和他聊了一下午，聊完他说，你来写吧，用你自己的身份，放我这儿。

7Wate`s Blog · ZH

Quiz Santé - Jouez avec The Conversation pour mieux connaître les rats et les microbes qu’ils hébergent

Retrouvez le « Quiz Santé The Conversation » de la semaine. Il est consacré à nos « voisins » les rats ainsi qu’aux microbes, parfois transmissibles aux humains, qu’ils hébergent.

The Conversation FR · EN