Good post by Chris Corrigan: Our experience of dialogue.
This clip is interesting: interviews with screenwriters who point out the function of dialogue in a television show. One of the high points of writing dialogue it turns out, is that it will never be effective if people are actually seen talking to each other. So it’s no surprise that bringing these forms of conversation into the real world creates all sorts of dysfunctional social situations.
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
Does Our Language Restrict What and How We Think? « how to save the world Dave Pollard pulls together some fascinating insights into language and how it frames and limits
The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome – NYTimes.com Cruely to animals correlates with cruelty to humans. Everything is conected to everything. Douglas Rushkoff » Too Big to Fail? The BP Bailout as Corporatism
I went out to a meeting this afternoon taking London buses in both directions. I won’t pretend I didn’t feel nervous; I did. There were a lot of buses with
The Manure Madness contest at FightTheBull draws to a close. Votes are invited to separate the two finalists McKesson and Lockheed. For me McKesson edges it for managing a slight
