If you’re interested in working with Improv (Improvisational Theatre) techniques in business and are within reach of Washington DC here’s a date for your diary.
On Friday May 13th 10 to 2, there’s a meeting of kindred spirits in Washington and there will be some great people there. My friend Alain Rostain is one of the hosts, and he has been a real pioneer of using improv work to get results in business.
What’s more it’s free. Full details.
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
Being surprised together can be the best way of learning
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
Following the debate on airport scanning I keep seeing versions of a particular kind of argument. It takes this form: I’d rather be groped/x-rayed than blown up by a terrorist
