And another thing re problem theatre…
It’s physical. How people think and behave is massively bound up with how they move and hold themselves. I think more of the brain, and certainly different parts of it, get engaged when we have to move and do things than when we write them down.
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
Jeff Jarvis criticises Republicans for their unwillingness to engage with the internet. In the end, this is not only short-sighted tactically but also essentially insulting to the American people. We
Nice thought from Made to Stick (I blogged it earlier here). Your brain hosts a truly staggering number of loops. The more hooks an idea has the better it will
My friend Antony Quinn and I are running our Difficult Conversations workshop again in Cambridge. We really enjoyed the one we did in December so we are rinsing-and-repeating. It’s on
Chris Corrigan posts this quote from Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf: I fell to dwelling upon the romance of the fog. And romantic it certainly was—the fog like the grey shadow
