Andrew Sullivan quotes Christian Wiman:
I don’t think you can spend your whole life questioning whether language can represent reality. At some point, you have to believe that the inadequacies of words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.
I think there is wisdom here for more than poets.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Feelings of Knowing : The Frontal Cortex Why humans can (sometimes) beat a computer at quiz games – because we can feel we know an answer to a question before
My good friend Tony Goodson is in rant mode. I love it when he does this, it always gets me thinking. He’s having a go at values statements. I am
PSFK: Smash Hits Closes PSFK spots the demise of teen magazine Smash Hits… cos its readers now get what they want faster and deeper online… (tags: marketing new+media connected+media) —–
Chris Corrigan wrote about his experience of unschooling a few days ago and his post still sticks in my mind. It raises a profound challenge to many conventional ideas about
