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.
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
Blink is clearly a must-read. But until I get round to it thanks to Paul Goodison for this snippet. Malcolm Gladwell, in his new book Blink, takes a look at
I set up a Tweetscan for the word “warcraft” as I wondered what my fellow addictsplayers might be saying on twitter. I found it hilarious – and revealing. If you’re
It’s hard to know where to begin in talking about the state of the world economy but one theme that constantly returns for me is this: there is a lot
Euan Semple‘s talking about how he developed social software at the BBC. It’s nicely put. And I think the metaphor carries way beyond software. When we started building this stuff
