Johah Lehrer reports research showing that while teachers like creative pupils in theory they don’t in practice.
In fact, when they were asked to rate their students on a variety of personality measures – the list included everything from “individualistic” to “risk-seeking” to “accepting of authority” – the traits mostly closely aligned with creative thinking were also closely associated with their “least favorite” students.
I think this is repeated in adult organisations.
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
Rob Paterson quotes William Manchester, describing why he jumped hospital ship to rejoin his wartime unit and face near-certain death: And then, in one of those great thundering jolts in
Further thoughts of Values in organisations, with thoughts from Tony Goodson and Robert Paterson.
It’s Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo. I thought this was pretty funny. It captures one of the classic ideas of Mars and Venus relationships and takes
For many decades first in the Tatler and then Harpers & Queen there was a regular column called Jennifer’s Diary, a cut-glass chronicle of the author’s continuous social whirl among
