Thanks to Jason McDonald for finding this brilliant clip:
What a great example of spotting an assumption everyone makes about how a game is played. Viv and I sometimes talk about the tyranny of effort where we are trying so hard that we don’t spot simple, less manic solutions to problems.
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
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
Johah Lehrer reports research showing that while teachers like creative pupils in theory they don’t in practice. In fact, when they were asked to rate their students on a variety
This week I took part in an Improv performance here in London. I did this with eight other people. All of us did a series of six evening workshops playing
At the 100% Open meeting I attended, we asked the audience to come up with things they hated about innovation events (amongst other questions). I thought their responses, shown above
I noticed that Wikipedia didn’t have a page for co-creation which struck me as a bit ironic as wikipedia is one of the finest examples of it. So James John
