Power, love and “cheap tricks”
Magic, relationship and changing status
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Ghost lights..
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
Hand grenades and hamster wheels
we’re hungry for connection
Are we really connecting?
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
Singing on the subway
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
Fingerspitzengefühl
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Ski poles…
Letting go in order to get in flow…
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
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Ideas or caring?
As an experiment, for the last day I’ve been running a search for the #innovation hashtag in my Twitter app, Tweetdeck. It generates a lot of interesting material. And this
26 May 2010
Is your future in the present?
… a question prompted by Chris Corrigan’s excellent story About Seeing. Chris relates how the experience of facilitating Open Space created a vision for the future. Something about this story
12 December 2004
Houston: It’s worth it
A friend just sent me an article from the Houston Chronicle. The original seems to be in the paid-for archive, but here’s the gist: Throughout its existence Houston has struggled
19 August 2004
Reflecting on four years of unhurried conversations
Since 2014 I have run over a hundred Unhurried Conversations. These use a simple talking-piece process to allow participants to take turns to speak without being interrupted. I run them
4 April 2018