I don’t suppose Bertrand Russell was into Improv but it looks like he’d have got it:
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
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 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
Allan Kaplan has written up his experience of a five-day facilitation for development professionals: Emerging out of Goethe: Conversation as a Form of Social Inquiry (pdf). He describes their struggle
Suppose people in future refuse to do work that doesn’t really excite them. What would be the future of organisations asks Michael Herman So given that some things really do
Video 17: Tantrum – a creative innovation exercise | Langmaid Practice Too often organsiations try to do creativity as if it's all about being "positive". Engaging the shadow feels scary
Just following up on that last post I’m going to talk about one of the improv games I find most fascinating. (I may have written about it before but can’t
