Andrew Sullivan quotes Christian Wiman:
I don’t think you can spend your whole life questioning whether language can represent reality. At some point, you have to believe that the inadequacies of words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.
I think there is wisdom here for more than poets.
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
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.
Visible power " Overland literary journal An elegantly written discussion of the power politics surrounding wikileaks.
Tim Kastelle discusses Scott Belsky’s vimeo talk about the idea generation trap. Here’s Tim’s description of what Belksy calls a project plateau: When ideas are new, we’re filled with energy
Another pithy post from Matt this time on Myers-Briggs and similar ways of classifying people. The more I am exposed to these tools, the more they remind me of MBTI
