I’ve just booked a great adventure for November. I’m off to the Applied Improv Conference in Banff Canada. I skipped the conference last year, but the combination of a horde of Improv fans plus the Canadian Rockies is too good to miss. I’m going to add on a trip elsewhere in North America as well I reckon.
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
What if we focus on the ideas that are so sticky they don’t need a post-it note? How often do we leave meetings where the walls are festooned with post-its?
Harrison Owen created or maybe he just channelled the Open Space process many years ago. He says he did so in two martinis and 20 minutes – pretty productive for
A craftsman commits to the patient practice and repetition of tasks to sustain the quality of his work. A visionary has his eyes on the horizon imagining new possibilities. Most
.. is new one on me. It’s a euphemism for the famous “feedback sandwich”. I prefer the third option which you can find in this engaging post on the Castleton
