Tenneson Woolf writes some thoughts about how to create resiliency in groups. Some good ideas here. I’ve been reflecting in particular on these: letting go of “aloneness” and its sister:
Belonging — Presume connection until apprehended. With colleagues. With community. With purpose.
I that’s one I need to practice more!
I also liked Tim Merry’s aphorism:
Be yourself. Everybody else is taken.
Hat tip: Geoff Brown’s tweet
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
Donald Clark discovers some research that should give trainers, and those who hire them, something to worry about. He describes it in more detail, this is my crude summary: Various
On this tip from Jon Strande I installed SpamBayes to Outlook. It’s a cool bit of open source software and after a few days training it’s working very efficiently to
So many business books and trends seem to have the following pattern. 1. Identify some newish area of scientific research 2. Oversimplify and dramatise it 3. Say how you can
Improv For Lawyers Lawyers who improvise? You mean it’s not all written down in the rules? (tags: improv law) —–
