I facilitated a Zoom exercise where participants silently alternated between looking at their screens and directly into their camera lenses, creating moments of genuine eye contact. The 30-45 second experiment revealed diverse reactions and rich learning. It exemplified my approach: small experiences can generate significant insights, with everyone learning something different.
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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
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
Rob Paterson blogs a great article from Fortune: Will Every Company be like Ebay? It reports on a panel seesion at Aspen, and it’s thought provoking. Read the whole thing
My semi-addiction to World of Warcraft continues. Over the last few weeks I’ve been levelling up a Feral Druid (pictured) and a Shadowpriest. Playing these has greatly extended my appreciation
David Gurteen (tweet) unearthed this report on research: Why groups fail to share information effectively: Again and again the results have shown that people are unlikely to identify the best candidate,
