I’m giving serious thought to attending The Art of Hosting in Boulder on 18-20 November. It’s a long way to go but Chris Corrigan made it sound very attractive in a Skype call the other day.
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
Proposals for massive expansion of psychological therapies would be counterproductive across society — Summerfield and Veale 192 (5): 326 — The British Journal of Psychiatry Interesting debate Which Traits Predict
Tim O’Reilly’s proposal for a bloggers code of conduct is looking increasingly forlorn. Over at gapingvoid Kathy Sierra rejects it. And Tristan Louis gives it a well-deserved fisking (hat tip:
Yesterday James Cherkoff and I were interviewed by Neville and Shel of the Hobson and Holtz Report. We kicked around some of the thoughts behind our Open Sauce workshops. There’s
Rob May at BusinessBlogCasting has just posted an 8 minute podcast interview with me. He asks about my interesting tool. Which turns out to be improv.
