Great spot by Tom Asacker: Scientists have identified a hormone to create trust.
What I love about stories like this is their potentially disruptive influence on established best practice!
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
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
By way of a comment here the head lemur pointed me to his thoughts on Social Media as an Oxymoron. Social Media is one of those phrases that needs to
Viv pointed me to The play of change by Lloyd Sandelands. I like the idea of play being at the heart of change – even if this is anathema to
Evelyn Rodriguez writes about the role of dissent in promoting creativity referencing this article by Charlan Nemeth: Rogues and Heroes: Finding Value in Dissent (pdf). It turns out that dissenting
Clay Shirky had that snappy line at SXSW this year: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution Which is why this kind of self-liquidating
