I’m going to take part in the Art of Hosting event in Ireland on January 5-8. It’s being led by my friend and occasional collaborator, Chris Corrigan. It’ll be a wonderful chance to delve deeper into Chris’ practice and thinking. It also strikes me as a really good time for me to indulge in some deeper reflection on my own work.
Here are the full details on a pdf. It would be fun to see you there.
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
David Weinberger has a lucid post dismantling the argument that Web 2.0 and “citizen journalism” will lead to mediocrity. Here’s a snippet: Donnacha acts as if the Web were as
The brilliant Bernie de Koeven has posted a poem about fun and about what sort of fun we want. This bit particularly caught my eye: Like the kinds of fun
I often like to host meetings with people sitting in a circle. It means everyone can see everyone else and it avoids inadvertently giving too much status to any particular
Just as fish may not notice the water they swim in, so we miss the impact of language on our choices
