The value of what students do resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness not in the greater strain it imposes.
John Dewey, quoted here by Alfie Kohn. That’s why I don’t like to summarise Carol Dweck’s research as being about making more effort.
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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
Viv‘s done a great post saving me a lot of work sharing some of the many interesting things we learnt or relearnt together over the last three weeks. Meanwhile Euan
I’ve written before that creativity doesn’t run to a schedule. I had a really good reminder of that recently. I’ve just moved house, and my friend Geoff Jones has been
Jeff Jarvis puts his sharp finger on something I’ve felt strongly about for a while. Schmoozing the powers-that-be at Davos he goes to a session on transparency. It’s off-the-record of
Chris Corrigan has an excellent post on dealing with cynicism inspired by Euan Semple’s mini-rant against pomposity. Snippet: I have recently had the experience of people saying to me that
