Another stunning post from Patti Digh. I’d precis the story but it would diminish its impact.
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Another stunning post from Patti Digh. I’d precis the story but it would diminish its impact.
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

A couple of days ago I blogged about two posts by Sean Howard and Piers Fawkes. They seemed to have a common thread of dissatisfaction with business-as-usual (in stakeholder research

I’ve been having a nice email exchange with Steve Moore of ICE3 who quoted Fritjof Capra to me: Human organisations always contain both designed and emergent structures. The two types

I’m sorry to see that Tim Carter at The Nub is calling it a day on blogging. Knowing Tim it will be interesting to see where his energy goes instead…

(Long slightly rambling post ahead) I’ve been enjoying Keith Sawyer’s book Group Genius. Keith’s singing to the choir of course, as he’s big on things like improvisation. His central theme