I don’t suppose Bertrand Russell was into Improv but it looks like he’d have got it:
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
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
Here’s another insight from that Dialogue book. The roots of the word “intelligence” are gather and in-between. I love that. What if we think of Intelligence is being in… or
Patti Digh’s weblog 37 days has caught my imagination. Experiencing the death of her stepfather over the course of 37 days has prompted some deep reflection manifested in this blog,
I’ve been working my way through Linda Ellinor & Glenna Gerard’s Dialogue which is a “how-to” guide to creating the sort of conversations envisioned by David Bohm in his Proposal
Chris Lawer likes First Direct‘s new podcasts. They are probably the only bank I know where customers would be willing to “listen in” to what it has to say. But
