I like Shawn Callahan’s examples of interventions:
turning off the blind copy functionality in an email system to send a message about trust providing managers with notebooks with the inside cover listing all the things a manager CAN do: what they can spend on whom what awards they can give etc. stocking the stationary cupboard for mobile employees a statement about trust
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 had an interesting conversation last week about intangibles. I think this word gets used in strange ways. When businesses talk about “intangibles” it seems to me they mean things
Via Richard Gayle and Glyn Moody I found The Synaptic Leap: Biomedical science is indivisible. The physical and psychological barriers that divide scientific communities are ultimately artificial and counterproductive. We
Tom Guarriello has a useful summary of what sounds an interesting talk by Dan Gilbert. Gilbert the Harvard psychologist who wrote Stumbling On Happiness, turned his attention to risk and
I went along to 100% Open‘s networking event in London. There were lots of short talks and plenty of animated conversations after the formal bit. The stand out moment for
