My pal and business partner James Cherkoff has a pithy little post on control and dealing with not having it.
But yes the rules are different and this is – maybe – where the problems and the fears arise. If you are a stellar brand which has always had the pulling power of a small super nova what do you do when someone says gravity has been reversed and that your satellites are drifting away to a new cosmos? You boil over and try to change it all back.
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
Towards the end of this RSA Animate video, psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist quotes Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. McGilchrist suggests
I’m going to run a couple of open workshops in November. They’re in London on November 6th and 7th. They’re for anyone who wants to get more out of meetings.
Euan thought this was good and so do I: 5 Social Computing Benefits that Adoption Rates Don’t Show
Alan Singer is running a blog experiment to locate his friend from Dubai, Barry Edwards.
