Matt mentioned something in our podcast that gives me an excuse to refer to this YouTube clip again. We were talking about power and what happens when someone in authority walks into a room… and the atmosphere changes. It makes me laugh a lot, and reminds me of the energy that can be released when a shadow gets named, as the filmakers does here.
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
Facilitation means different things to different people. It’s worth spending a bit of time finding out what people really want when they ask for a facilitator. Sometimes I find clients
Branding used to be about polishing and smoothing to make shiny images of products and services that we’d all admire. These shiny things would have USPs propositions and such. There’d
Squeezing the last drop out of our visit to Copenhagen, James and I spent 90 minutes with Jacob Boetter at the airport. Jacob and his colleagues – here’s their blog
Tom Guarriello’s on good form today. He’s challenging a cultural bias in favour of talking over listening:Well, I think it has a lot to do with power. The power dynamics
