Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known – Viola Spolin (again)
But don’t we fallible humans often wish it was? So much training and education is packaged to spare us the discomfort of entering into uncertainty. Likewise most “innovation processes” seem to be sold on avoiding that discomfort too.
I would rate myself as at least averagely cowardly so I have to keep remind myself, working with others, that some of the best stuff happens on the edge of our comfort zone.
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
Wow. I just got an email as follows: Hi Johnnie How much are you asking for a blogroll link placement? I suppose it’s a fair offer in a commercial world,
I had a great meeting this week with Elizabeth Varley of TechHub which is a hotbed of entreprenerial activity near the Old Street Roundabout. We kicked around some ideas for
A Swedish teacher wonders how to compete with World of Warcraft. Good question the sort we might chat about on Wednesday afternoon at NESTA. There’s room for few more if
I threw out this tweet the other day and it seemed to strike a chord with people: Innovation too often equated with rush… accelerators storming, multicoloured postits stimulus, sugar &
