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.
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
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
Chris Corrigan points to this fascinating NY Times interview with a leading Norwegian peace negotiator. I particularly focussed on this comment about the notion of a war on terror. “The
Tim Kastelle wonders how we can get out of our thinking ruts. He pulls together several different threads including this argument from Jeffrey Phillips: Most businesses are about identifying a
Howard Mann is the latest blogger to turn on Dell: Dell’s Flat World Leaves Me Flat!. I’ll put this in the box with my post of yesterday about Internetters/Iomart who
Well here’s a new approach to the challenge. (Hat tip: Ian McKenzie via Bruce Lewin) —–
