Loved this from Chris Corrigan:
I see it all the time where cultivated and well-raised people stumble in the wild land of chaos and open space. Whether it is the tourist in the forest who complains against the mud or the leader in an organization community or country (like Egypt) who clings to the illusion of confidence and control and who cannot make friends with the wild and the chaotic.
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
Pew reports a big increase in the number of American’s using the internet for presidential campaign news. The number’s up from 10% to 33% in just four years. TV and
Thomas Frank bemoans the lack of creativity among gurus of… creativity: we’re talking about the literature of creativity for Pete’s sake. If there is a non-fiction genre from which you have
The Fertile Unknown: A Simpler Way Revisited A nice short version of Meg Wheatley Freedom In the Cloud Eben Moglen talks about the threats to our freedom posed by cloud
People who work with me realise that a good way to get me to stop listening to any explanation is to draw me a diagram. Don’t get me wrong sometimes
