Or ever felt like giving the unexpected a good hug?
Then I have just the event for you. The Applied Improv Network is hosting it’s third annual conference in San Francisco this October. I’m still juggling my diary to see if I’m going to cross the Altantic to be there – it does look a great programme.
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
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
John Hagel argues: In the 20th century we witnessed a deep split in our professional and personal identities. The quest for scalable efficiency in all of our institutions required us
Viv pointed me to this video which is a great introduction to how we can use the ideas of improv theatre to support creativity and change.
Not that I care about these things he wrote disingenously, but I appear to have reached the exalted status of 251 on Feedster’s top 500 this month. Funny that as
From Michael Herman’s Pea Soup blog under the title Recently Observed: Under-resting and over-vigilance have a way of getting in the way. Showing up early enough to sit and do
