A tweet from Rob Paterson pointed me to John Robb’s post Industrial Education. I’ve thought for a long time that our current university system has become prohibitively expensive and vulnerable to the kind of shake up the music business is experiencing. John explores the issues in more depth.
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
I’m going to run a one-day workshop on Difficult Conversations in London on February 20th. I’m doing with this my friend and collaborator Kay Scorah. As we say in the
Evelyn Rodriquez writes about reducing professional distance. Managing the distance is a continuing challenge for people and organisations.
There are a couple of TV shows I’ve seen lately that remind me of the difficult conversations process. In The Chase, a team of players compete against a quiz show
I’ve been thinking about and working with, agencies lately: ad agencies, design agencies, innovation agencies… In this context, an agency generally means “people who can do the things you can’t,
