Lisa Haneberg shared this quote with me by email.
Oh the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
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
..is the theme of Rob Paterson’s post Indulgences – The Reformation – Our Time. Serious thought provocation.
So now the Corante conference is talking about co-creation. I’m gonna give myself a break from blogging this, especially as Paul Gladen is capturing some of it over at Fast
Quite a few people have linked to this video of Eric Berlow from TED. His theme is “how complexity leads to simplicity”. He looks at how various visualisations offer us
One of the benefits of an open approach to marketing is that it allows your own staff to create little bits of extra value for customers. A small but interesting
