Paul Levy came up with a word in a comment to his post about “icebreakers”.
Some briefs might translate as “can you facilitate for these people to do what I want” in which case you need a facipulator, not a facilitator.
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
For an instance of the real value of blogging read Gary Lawrence Murphy’s eloquent and beautiful posting triggered in a small way by my last posting, and in a larger
I’ve been doing a few Open Space events lately either as host or participant and I’m mostly thinking about this aspect: the challenge of giving expression to what we really
Andrew Sullivan spots another home-made ad for Barack Obama and asks: Who needs professional ad campaigns? When you have such enthusiastic and creative support for free supporters will make their
Thanks to Jason McDonald for finding this brilliant clip: What a great example of spotting an assumption everyone makes about how a game is played. Viv and I sometimes talk
