Andrew Rixon writes:
This comes from yesterday’s Australian Financial Review regarding a contentious desalination plant which Sydney is planning for.
The key points which the paper reported were:
Plans for a desalination plant in Sydney have been released for public consultation. The decision to build the plant is final says the minister.
Andrew goes on to reflect on different notions of what constitutes “consultation”.
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
Virtual meeting – up to my ankles — Penny Walker’s blog Some good thoughts about working with virtual meetings
Aaron Saenz reports research from MIT into collective intelligence. They studied the effectiveness of a series of groups of varying sizes and performing a number of different tasks. Then they
The Graeme Thickins article I blogged yesterday continues to get picked up in the blogosphere. It really doesn’t deserve the attention but it’s irritiating me so I’ll just make a
Jeff Jarvis takes a few well-aimed jabs at our acceptance of deadly keynote speeches and other manifestations of a top-down educational system. (Click here if you can’t see the embed.)
