Dave Snowden has a good line for metaphors about complexity and his latest based on a “magic roundabout” near Swindon, is a cracker.
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
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Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
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This looks like fun
I think I’ll have to try out the new exhibit in the giant Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern gallery. Looks a lot of fun. And a real object of
10 October 2006
Inequality
I was startled and glad, to read that leading Tory thinker Dave Willetts thinks this: The evidence has become stronger and stronger that inequality matters. That gradual accretion of the
14 March 2009
Another view…
Andrew Sullivan has a series of posts based on his readers’ varying perspectives on the recession. This one resonated for me. Here’s a snippet: Though I am still worried about
7 March 2009
Idle thought about Starbucks
Talking with Tony yesterday about Starbucks. And now I see that Jennifer is having a pop at them too prompted in part by my namesake . Jen and John are
21 November 2004
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