David Wilcox writes
Can 200 people work out what they are interested in find others with shared concerns form groups, and decide what to do next – all in 35 minutes? I now know the answer.
An inspiring story unfolds in David’s blog. Well done, David – isn’t it great what people can do when facilitators give them a simple nudge and then let them get on with it? And for me, that’s the thing about much really great facilitation, it has the gentleness that David personifies.
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.
JP has a good post about how Open Source makes you responsible. He quotes Chuq van Rospach thus: Open source requires you as a manager of IT, or as a
Michelle Holliday has written a splendid exploration of the deep value of improv. ..the true promise of improvisation is that it helps us move beyond a mechanistic paradigm to one
I see that there’s been another tragic story of a young child suffering horrible abuse in Haringey. There is a perfectly understandable despair that this seems to happen repeatedly. There
