Andrew Rixon writes:
This comes from yesterday’s Australian Financial Review regarding a contentious desalination plant which Sydney is planning for.
The key points which the paper reported were:
Plans for a desalination plant in Sydney have been released for public consultation. The decision to build the plant is final says the minister.
Andrew goes on to reflect on different notions of what constitutes “consultation”.
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
News Desk: Cowboys and Pit Crews : The New Yorker "We train hire and pay doctors to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews people need." Lessons about complexity that apply
Interesting post by Alan Singer: The Other Side of the Campaigning Coin. Alan’s been blogging consistently on the case of Shapelle Corby, an Australian charged with drug smuggling in Indonesia.
I’m an enthusiastic participant in the whole “social object” conversation. (Hugh crystallised it first here.) I just want to add a caveat before we all get carried away and talk
I liked this post by Dan Burgess at The Pipeline Project: Learning to Unlearn. He talks about his experience of reverting to almost-barefoot running eschewing years of being, in effect,
