I’ve been talking to people who are coming to my facilitation training workshop in November and found myself riffing on an old Monty Python sketch – to talk about the times when I want to offer more of an explanation of what I’m doing. And expanding on my more improvisational approach to the work. Details of the workshop.
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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
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
Another short video in my reflections series. This one is about working with people in an unhurried way…
Simon Gough tweeted: For every high-profile project there are ten better versions quietly getting on with it which strikes me as poetically true if not always literally so. I see
Kevin Carey has a fascinating article looking at the growing number of startups challenging conventional universities with cheap online services. I’ve felt for a long time that education would eventually
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?, asks Duncan Watts in the New York Times magazine. His research suggests that market success is hugely affected by a network effect,
