Adrian Segar has a great post pulling together a whole set of reasons why you shouldn’t jam pack meetings with activity. There’s a terrible workaholic ethic running through meetings that are packed with content, and seem to expect people to function at their best sat in chairs, often packed around anti-social cabaret tables or absurd rows of desks, in semi-darkness.
Hat tip: Tweet from Viv
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
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
I’m fascinated by the thinking of David Bohm. Here’s an interview with him from 1987. Serious brain food. One of Bohm’s ideas was that of the implicate order; that everything
Helen Walters scratches an itch I’ve long felt about design thinking: A codified repeatable reusable practice contradicts the nature of innovation which requires difficult, uncomfortable work to challenge the status
I’ve just been out shopping. The roads round here are fairly quiet but there are plenty of pedestrians presumably displaced from public transport. Most of the buses that normally stream
Patti Digh posts infrequently at 37 Days but what she writes is always deeply thought provoking. Today’s – Love Unlovable People is no exception.
