I wrote the other day about the dangers of facilitators who are in love with their process. When that happens I think they’re actually relating to their idea, rather than to the people in front of them. It’s a mistake I’ve caught myself making many times. I have a feeling that it’s better to play down the process and play up the potential of the audience to make something of it.
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
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new file-swapping service is daring record
I’ve just stumbled across Jaron Lanier’s op ed from the WSJ: World Wide Mush. It’s like a trailer for his new book You are not a gadget. I found his
A few weeks ago, I linked to Kathy Sierra’s excellent crash course in learning theory. This drew an interesting comment from Brian Alger, who has now extended his response to
Andrew Rixon shares this presentation on networks as living systems. I enjoyed it. Living systems mapping View more presentations from AndrewRixon.
