A look through my site log led me to this posting by Chris Corrigan. Chris does Open Space facilitation and gets people demanding evidence of its results.
What started to pick at my thinking was this implicit assumption that if something does not immediately change things in a controlled and predictable way, then it has no value. And so I crafted a long response to this problem this morning, which I reproduce here.
If you can give yourself five minutes, it’s worth reading.
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.
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
Two interesting posts on practice: Chris Corrigan’s The purpose of practice is practice Practicing kindness possibility seeking and deep listening on a daily basis ingrains those skills and capacities. It
Rather like Jennifer I’ve become a bit lazy about maintaining my blogroll and I tend to agree with her: I’m not really into doing “link swapping”. I’m happy to read
I’m still working through Bill Isaacs’ Dialogue. He tells a good story about the practice of voicing – giving expression to what it is we are really feeling, wanting, needing.
