Tom Guarriello has a nice post on doing just enough facilitation.
Just enough = elegant = the sweet spot.
That’s what I’m looking for whenever I design anything: a meeting experience a document, a culture. Just enough excitement, just enough colorful language, just enough structure.
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
Neil Perkin examines the success of the New York Times paywall. In a nutshell, it works because it’s porous. Porosity is a concept that’s caught my attention before. I guess
Euan makes a very interesting point:Contrast this with this and consider where the future lies.
This is the sort of wry content that makes Jessica Hagy’s blog, Indexed a regular stopping point for me.
A good article by Jay Rosen about media coverage of the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice in the US. The story is of two sides of activists doing battle
