Incidentally if you want to explore non-verbal signalling I really recommend gibberish games from improv. Viv and I use them quite a lot in training (described here). I find that if you get people to practice setting up an activity in gibberish and then in normal language, they create a lot more engagement.
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
David Wilcox blogs a speech by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne – who shows himself well-informed about the impact of the net on politics. With all these profound changes – the
A few days ago I blogged about insight being “the popcorn of therapy” and sparked some interesting comments. Today, this jumped out from a post by Rob Paterson. Ideas do
I’ve met Matt Weinstein several times at Improv conferences and always found him hilarious engaging and unrelentlingly enthusiastic about life. So what happens when someone this positive is cheated of
James and I put in an appearance at the Market Research Society Conference in London yesterday. We gave a short talk about Blogging and listened in on an earlier session
