Paul Levy came up with a word in a comment to his post about “icebreakers”.
Some briefs might translate as “can you facilitate for these people to do what I want” in which case you need a facipulator, not a facilitator.
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
Euan Semple blogged Teemu Arina‘s lucid presentation on the social web in support of informal learning. Teemu cites Lev Vygotsky’s notion that “all higher understanding is dialogic by nature”. I
Last week Annette Clancy Matt Moore and I had a conversation about the shadow side of organisations. Sometimes when people talk about the shadow it conjures up a scary idea
I spend too much time thinking. A friend revealed to me recently that he would describe me to acquaintances as a brain on a stick. He assures me that this
Jack/Zen posts his four laws of networks. I particularly liked his first “Luck = consciousness x transparency”. He explainsLuck is one of the most powerful and accessible currencies in networks
