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.
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
My last post on Lovemarks stirred up some strong responses. Most seemed to agree strongly, so it’s welcome when someone comes along to disagree, as Stuart Henshall does in the
Viv tweeted this post by Tom Fishburne on Death by Powerpoint. Tom quotes Steve Jobs: I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People confront a problem
David McRaney has a great post on survivorship bias. It includes the story of the US Air Force in WWII trying to figure out where to add armour to their bombers
Dominic Campbell took this pic at an event yesterday and tweeted: Mr @johnniemoore getting people talking at Surrey Council I saw the tweet and idly wondered if people might feel
