I just googled the phrase “faciliation for surprise” and drew a gratifying blank.
Good. Because it’s a snappy little phrase I’m planning to use to describe what I do.
And big thanks to Freddie Daniells for suggesting it in the course of an excellent conversation over coffee last week.
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
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
Dave Snowden‘s on good form here: …autocratic managers and the dark side of management consultancy have discovered how to keep their penny and still eat the bun. The way it
I think it was Adam Morgan in Eating the Big Fish who noticed the absurdities of advertising containing the words “that’s why”. Whenever you find those words in ad copy,
Margaret Heffernan writes about leaders and wilful blindness. It’s a good piece pulling together many strands of research on the considerable downsides of having high-status leaders. Leaders of organizations inhabit
Nice post by Roland Harwood reflecting on Rob Poynton’s Everything’s An Offer. Rob relates that in improv you can see offers in three groups: Vague – I need help Open
