I’ve made a few changes to the pages on this site about what I do. This gives more emphasis to the idea of Faciliation for Surprise. Quoting myself…
What characterises good facilitation is that people get surprised
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
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
Just a quick post from my hotel in Malmo Sweden. Have spent the day in meetings with fellow blogger Jennifer Rice. It’s been great to meet her and have animated
Kathy Sierra stands up for the power of one. I’m not dissing teams–our books are all collaborative efforts and far better because of it. And we consider ourselves to be
Amplified 08 sounds like my kinda conference – a conversational gathering of people who are into social media. It promises to have a flat structure which usually means a bubbly
Jonah Lehrer has a good article in the New Yorker The Eureka Hunt (pdf) looking at research on what happens inside our heads when we come up with sudden insights.
