Dealing with the gap between performance and reality
I found myself thinking about the play I studied as a teenager – and what it tells us about managing an uncertain world of performances we can’t trust.
Thumbnail Photo by Payton Tuttle on Unsplash
I found myself thinking about the play I studied as a teenager – and what it tells us about managing an uncertain world of performances we can’t trust.
Thumbnail Photo by Payton Tuttle on Unsplash
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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

So Matt has finished the poem he wrote for me. (Backstory here) He wrote it after we shared some of our prejudices about organisations. Needless to say I love it!

On Friday I had a Skype conversation with Chris Corrigan and Rob Paterson. We discussed Unconferencing: how can we get away from unsatisfying conferences where the audience is often bored

Where’s My Flying Car? « Innovation Leadership Network Tim argues that inventing the future may not be about coming up with new things. "We can actually invent the future by

Viv has written about rethinking facilitation training and I agree with her. That’s not unconnected with having done some very interesting work with her this year and planning some more