Nice post from Jack Martin Leith on how he used Open Space as part of an innovation process. Seems nice and human to me.
Fingerspitzengefühl
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
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Ski poles…
Letting go in order to get in flow…
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
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Being antlike
Rob Poynton emailed me this little video from basset.tv. In it Dr. Deborah Gordon explains her theories behind ant swarms and how swarm intelligence is manifested in formic communities. We
26 February 2009
The evaluation hamburger…
.. is new one on me. It’s a euphemism for the famous “feedback sandwich”. I prefer the third option which you can find in this engaging post on the Castleton
17 December 2008
Rewriting history…
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like Bush’s fundamentalist Christian buddies are
6 December 2003
Talking to horses and talking to people
Robert Benjamin – From The Horses Mouth: On The Nature Of Equine And Human Negotiations – has some interesting observations on how professionals treat clients who are in conflict. I resonate strongly with his thinking.
2 September 2004
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