Following up on WH Auden here’s R D Laing:
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice that how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
Hat tip: Bob Sutton
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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
Beyond heroic leadership
Government seems to reverence a particular kind of cleverness. The lawyerly sort, that can write precise reports and prescribe best practices. I would dearly like to see some of the
Just reminder that Chris Corrigan will be co-leading the Art of Hosting in Ireland (pdf) on 5- 8 January. I’ll be showing up along with at least 25 others and
I think it was Adam Morgan in Eating the Big Fish who noticed the absurdities of advertising containing the words “that’s why”. Whenever you find those words in ad copy,
Nice article from the NY Times: Airlines Learn to Fly on a Wing and an ApologyNo airline accepts blame quite like Southwest Airlines, which employs Fred Taylor Jr. in a
