Or ever felt like giving the unexpected a good hug?
Then I have just the event for you. The Applied Improv Network is hosting it’s third annual conference in San Francisco this October. I’m still juggling my diary to see if I’m going to cross the Altantic to be there – it does look a great programme.
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
From our book Nothing is Written: In his book, Friends in Low Places, Dr James Willis describes research in which two groups of people were shown a photograph of a
Kathy Jourdain writes about working with the our shadow side. It relates to an idea from Jung about the parts of our personalities we keep secret but which inadvertently leak
An attempt to see how different meanings for the word Brand lead to mischief and hurt feelings.
Alan Singer’s highlights the plight of an Australian tourist facing the firing squad in Indonesia where the legal process appears to operate on the basis of “guilty until proved innocent”.
