I’ve made a few changes to the pages on this site about what I do. This gives more emphasis to the idea of Faciliation for Surprise. Quoting myself…
What characterises good facilitation is that people get surprised
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
Wise words from johnmoore at Brand Autopsy: The major reason why word-of-mouth hasn’t taken off is not because marketers lack the metrics to measure it. It’s because most products, services,
Ken Thompson enthuses about a Harvard report Virtual Teams: Palaeolithic Insights About the Art of Cyber-Managing. Ken summarises: Three instincts in particular have to be excavated from our caveman days
Tom Guarriello highlighted this video of Micheal Rosenblum spunkily putting in a nutshell some thoughts about how video online could change media.
I’ve been going on about the idea of notice more change less quite a lot this year. With this in mind, I was intrigued by Andrew Sullivan’s analysis in The
