David Wilcox blogs Ten Traps for Facilitators. Most of them strike chords with me!
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
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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
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
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links for 2011-05-26
Whether "Beast" or "Virus" Metaphor Is Powerful Stuff | Psychology Today Merely changing the metaphor alongside which identical factual information is presented significantly changes how readers determine how to respond.
26 May 2011
Corporates and online communities
Robert Young looks at how corporates can engage with online communities. At the end the lesson is one of a paradox. As the power shifts increasingly towards community, the corporation
1 March 2006
More on BzzAgent
I met Dave Balter the founder of BzzAgent here in London yesterday. He’d suggested meeting after reading my own fairly sceptical posts on Bzzagents. (John Moore, Tom Guarriello and Christopher
18 January 2005
The paradox of talking about complexity with certainty
Jonathan Rosenhead, in an article dating from 1998 takes a critical look at how ideas from complexity sciences get applied to management. It is not a light read, but I
6 November 2010
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