I’ve just booked a great adventure for November. I’m off to the Applied Improv Conference in Banff Canada. I skipped the conference last year, but the combination of a horde of Improv fans plus the Canadian Rockies is too good to miss. I’m going to add on a trip elsewhere in North America as well I reckon.
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 had a chance to share a few improv games this morning at the ActKM conference in Melbourne. I chose some simple turn-taking games which generally show that following apparently
I was fascinated by the latest comment added to my post about phone spam. This is by a large margin the most commented-on thing on my site though it’s not
I’ve been going on about the idea of notice more change less quite a lot this year. With this in mind, I was intrigued by Andrew Sullivan’s analysis in The
…is not to generalise about the blogosphere says Chris Anderson. I agree with his sentiment. The trouble is, we all need to generalise from time-to-time, so perhaps we just shouldn’t
