Piers Young blogs on the sleep advantage.
The hard (and repeated) lesson seems to be this: if you want to be creative you need to do whatever you can to stop thinking about the problem. Get some rest, go for a walk – anything – but if you stay up all night working on it, chances you’ll be a blank slate.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
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
I’ve just had an article published in Argent (the Journal of the Financial Services Forum). Mutualism begins at home (pdf) is part of a special feature on Mutualism. In this
John Tropea turned up this brief report of this research by Annefloor Klep. The gist is summaried in US News thus: Work teams who openly express their negative feelings share
Nice idea from Rob Paterson and his friends: marketing filter. And not just because it very shrewdly filters me in. Likewise his Cityfilter for Charlottetown. Some interesting comments on Rob’s
BBC News – Anna Hazare's movement – a reality check for India A bottom-up insurgency against the establishment no doubt with its flaws but triggering classic elitist bluster from those
