Chris Corrigan is visiting me next Sunday. Chris is an uber-facilitator and a regular source of inspiration to me though this will be the first time we’ve met in person. I’m inviting a few friends over probably to do lunch somewhere, maybe take a walk and generally schmooze in a dialoguey way. If you’d like to join us, drop me a line.
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
Ben Goldacre has an interesting take on the dangers of Brtain’s proposed ID card scheme. This comes in the wake of the Inland Revenue losing 25m records in the post.
Simon Jenkins’ the former editor of the The Times in today’s issue, commenting on his experience of blogs in the US ‘Yet the ground did shake under me. Earlier threats
My friend Matt Moore and colleague Anne Murphy have started up a new blog on the idea of Followership. A useful antidote to much laboured thinking on the virtues of
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that this is where they are
