I’ve posted a review of Improv Wisdom by Patricia Ryan Madson over at the Applied Improv Weblog.
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
I’ve posted a review of Improv Wisdom by Patricia Ryan Madson over at the Applied Improv Weblog.
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

I seem to have got back into the habit of adding links to Delicious but the addon for cross-posting them here isn’t working. Perhaps that’s a good thing. Anyhoo, if

Jeff Jarvis on how organisations can engage with the rest of us: This is about turning around the usual media equation: Instead of asking the outsiders in you turn things

From Joel on Software: a good pice on Measurement (via Lee at Headshift) “Thank you for calling Amazon.com may I help you?” Then — Click! You’re cut off. That’s annoying.

I enjoyed Antony Mayfield’s notes on business networks. This line resonated strongly: We don’t grasp how magnificently terrifyingly complex networks are. We like to draw pictures of them and then