Lisa Haneberg shared this quote with me by email.
Oh the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
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 met up with Neil Perkin today and heard about his elegant solution to making a presentation about community. Which was to get a community to do it for him.
Viv and I have been beavering away on alternative versions of our book Creative Facilitation Here it is in ePub format, suited to things like Kobo, Nook and loads of
Tom Guarriello has been posting some good thinking about rules. Here’s a bite but try the whole steak if you can. At first blush we think that rules are designed
I just wanted to say, and I know this thought is not original If you’re doing an RSS/Atom feed I’m way more likely to read, comment, ping and in all
