Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, ‘Let us march”.
Adlai Stevenson via E J Dionne by way of Andrew Sullivan.
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
NESTA‘s forum on user-led innovation was rather stimulating. Rainycatz, sitting beside me took copious notes on her Asus EEE and I’ve lazily waited for her to blog them before adding
Phil Dourado asked a really good question the other day. I wish I had some kind of answer. So, if 19 million people were moved by a piece of viral
Tom Asacker quotes Ionesco “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” and goes on to set some challenging questions for folks (like me) who opine from time-to-time in
Christopher Carfi talked about comment feeds on the latest Hobson & Holtz report. And Jackie from Customer Evangelists commented on the fullest feed I do. So I’ve uploaded a couple
