I’m going to take part in the Art of Hosting event in Ireland on January 5-8. It’s being led by my friend and occasional collaborator, Chris Corrigan. It’ll be a wonderful chance to delve deeper into Chris’ practice and thinking. It also strikes me as a really good time for me to indulge in some deeper reflection on my own work.
Here are the full details on a pdf. It would be fun to see you there.
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?
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
What I’ve learnt from limiting my use of social media for three months….
I’ll be running an Open Evening on 22 March at 5pm along with my colleagues at The Clarity Partnership. The theme is The Elephant Under the Table. We’ll be exploring
Dwight Towers spotted this lovely article: bring the outliers inside. It’s based on the book Positive Deviance. Dwight picked out a lovely Nasrudin parable to illustrate how easy it is
The Science of Improv Part 1: How to Fail Magnificently | Impro•gramming This looks at how failure tends to lead us to over-react leading us to sweeping avoidance of things
Rob Paterson blogs a great article from Fortune: Will Every Company be like Ebay? It reports on a panel seesion at Aspen, and it’s thought provoking. Read the whole thing
