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.
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….
Christopher Hitchens: Unspoken Truths | Culture | Vanity Fair On finding your voice. Marvellous.
Piers Young’s thoughts on Abundance and the wish to be spoon fed get me thinking about cleverness online and its good and bad sides.
I hardly ever go to meetings that promise a panel format. I was recently reminded why. It seems to me that as humans we are hugely programmed to play together
Paul Levy came up with a word in a comment to his post about “icebreakers”. Some briefs might translate as “can you facilitate for these people to do what I
