Ken Thompson points to this LA Times article by Jeffrey Kluger about simplexity – how apparently inconsequential things can have major effects in systems.
I’m not one for jargon, but I quite like this word simplexity. I’m fascinated by the paradoxical power of the simple and the complex. I think we too often miss it favour of seeing the merely complicated. (More on that in this essay I wrote a few years ago.)
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
“I never thought of that!” « Horizons of Significance "Action without intention or the suspension of striving is not non-action. It is not “passivity.” It does not preclude any particular
Viv has posted some good ideas here: So you want to be a facilitator? Advice for the uninitiated. She has some good things to say about process, like this: There’s no
There are moments when I get really excited by an unexpected byproduct of my own blog. One such happened a week ago when I met Sam Clements. Sam found me
I’m going to be in Washington DC 10th-12th October and San Francisco – for the Applied Improv conference – from 12th-18th. Any readers in either part of the world who’d
