James and I are looking forward to doing a mini OpenSauceLive at Reboot next month. We’ll be flying into Copenhagen on Thursday 9th and leaving on the Sunday. Looking forward to meeting up with lots of folks including Jacob and Hans from CPH127.
If you’re going to Reboot and have a video camera, we’d love to persuade you to record our session for posterity…
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Paul Clarke muses on the morality of his own eavesdropping. Interesting stuff. As someone who works in training/facilitation I was quite engaged by the eavesdropped rail employee who was in
Reading my vanity feed this cartoon (originally blogged in 2004) still generates the odd mention. It’s funny how we instantly think of meetings as boring and pointless. I recently asked
I just posted about Umair’s suggestion about a mega-version of the netflix prize. I’ve been involved with some of NESTA’s many open innovation projects (here’s Roland on one of their
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of the editing process. The author
