Here’s a great TED talk by Stuart Brown on the serious importance of play. The opening story about how a polar bear and husky opt for play instead of predation is pretty amazing. And I loved these lines: “nothing lights up the brain like play” and “the opposite of play is not work it’s depression”.
Hat tip David Smith’s daily feed
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
After Sean let fly at the market research business I’m pleased to see Piers doing the same for the trendspotters. For me, there’s a message linking both: can we get
There’s more cringeworthy footage of me in this short interview by David Wilcox. I didn’t realise my eyes darted around so much. See I’m an introvert at heart. I try
Learning Technologies Magazine has published part 2 of my article Nothing is Written. (For part one, see here.) I continue my exploration of the limits of explicit learning, and take
Chris Corrigan quotes Harrison Owen talking about presence and Open Space. This is my favourite bit: Presence is our way of being in the great circle(s) of life. This may
