Just reminder that Chris Corrigan will be co-leading the Art of Hosting in Ireland (pdf) on 5- 8 January. I’ll be showing up along with at least 25 others and I hear there still a few places left.
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
The other day I linked to Cath Richardson’s writeup about goodfornothing. In the last year, I’ve started to really appreciate the upside to not finishing things; we tend to assume
Thomas Frank bemoans the lack of creativity among gurus of… creativity: we’re talking about the literature of creativity for Pete’s sake. If there is a non-fiction genre from which you have
At Russell‘s prompting I found this amazing image of Velcro taken by Dee Breger – it’s near to the bottom of that page on Dee’s site. I think of Velcro
Ton Zijlstra has done an eloquent blog Every Signal Starts Out As Noise. He argues, provocatively, Why do we call information and data coming to us noise? Because we know
