Chris Corrigan points to this fascinating documentary – Tribe Badongo Iboga – in which explorer Bruce Perry, is initiated into an African tribe and goes on a psychotropic trip into his past… to discover how everything is connected.
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
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
Chris Corrigan has an excellent post on dealing with cynicism inspired by Euan Semple’s mini-rant against pomposity. Snippet: I have recently had the experience of people saying to me that
I think it was Adam Morgan in Eating the Big Fish who noticed the absurdities of advertising containing the words “that’s why”. Whenever you find those words in ad copy,
Dave Pollard does a great summary of Nassim Taleb’s thinking. I’m very interested in all the cognitive biases listed there; it’s so easy for us humans to think we know
David Maister > Why training is useless “I now believe that the overwhelming majority of all business training, by me and by everyone else, is a complete waste of money
