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.
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
Piers Young spots an interesting article in Wired: Roads Gone Wild. Here’s some of Piers’ summary… The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there’s a problem with a road
England had a very disappointing game last night and along with many fans I did my share of yelling at the telly. In the bright light of morning, though, what
I’ve added Paul Robinson to my aggregator. (Funnily enough, I only found him when he announced he was going to stop reading my blog regularly.) Paul’s a coder and I
