I recently stopped managing the website for the Applied Improv network. After four years I felt I’d become stale. Fortunately, Leif Hansen stepped out of the void and rebuilt the site for us on Ning.
It’s working really well. The old site was set up as a blog but very few posts were written. The old set up was just a bit too taxing for people.
On ning, it seems the pain threshold is lower and there’s a whole lot of new life.
And some excellent blog posts.
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
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
Tim Kastelle praises Derek Sivers‘ approach to innovation. He tells the story of the voice coach that he had when he was singing in a band. He’d have Sivers sing
As Dan Millman’s sage explains in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior “there is never nothing happening”. I thought of this while reading this post pointing the unseen value of the
The Diaspora Project – Only Dead Fish "The Diaspora Project is self-described as "the privacy aware personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network" and is on a mission to
I’ve just finished a chat over Skype with Chris Corrigan. I wanted to pick his brains on a facilitation project I’m running. Chris was on his deck on Bowen Island
