David Wilcox blogs Ten Traps for Facilitators. Most of them strike chords with me!
Power, love and “cheap tricks”
Magic, relationship and changing status
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Arriving without luggage
leaving your props behind
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.
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Anecdote Circles… and seeing the trees.
I’ve been doing a little work lately using Anecdote Circles. I found this Ultimate Guide (pdf) an excellent reflection on the process and how to use it. The guys at
7 September 2010
Bored at Berkeley
A tweet from David Smith led me to this post by Alan Cann. Alan shows this soporific video; it’s from an extensive range published by UC Berkeley on YouTube. I
8 October 2007
Market research pratfalls
Tom Hamilton had me laughing this morning with this comment. I spent much of yesterday travelling from London to Leeds and back by train and on the return journey I
20 June 2005
Making a decision like a tribe
This Fast Company article from 1995 describes how a native American wisdom council gets taken into the corporate world. Interesting stuff. I read it with some anxiety as I fear
10 October 2010