As I’ve been thinking/ranting about the limits of keynote presentations I realise that (as ever) the Pythons got there first. Keynoters love to think that they can just pour their thinking into our willing heads. But even the most gifted orator’s message is going to be disrupted by the reality of the moment-by-moment distractions among the audience.
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
Stuart Henshall is Giving up Traditional Blogging. I’m seeing signs that blogs are declining in usefulness and utility as they are pushed into activities they are not suited for. I
One week to run until James’ and my first Open Sauce Workshop. I’m starting to get quite excited about it. We’ve got a mix of folks from business and non-profits
Rob Horning has an interesting article speculating that much of the benefits of the networked economy aren’t going to show up in conventional economic statistics. This makes sense to me.
I’m going to run a couple of telephone seminars in April. On the 20th on Improv at work and on 21st on Facilitation. The idea is to create a bit
