Grande Lum quotes WH Auden:
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
Good advice to facilitators, and reminds me of my own favoured mantra: notice more, change less.
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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
On 14 September I’ll be facilitating the Bricking It conference, sponsored by Channel 4 and CFE. You’ll find more details at the site but this is the theme in a
What’s A Download Worth? Part 1 – The MASSIVE Downloader… — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 — the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had A good argument against the
I looked up the Love Police on youtube following a tip from Euan. Here they are visiting Canary Wharf to challenge amongst other things, the status of private security guards
Chris Rodgers sparked an intense and interesting conversation with (among others) Dave Snowden with this post: Self-organization and emergence as natural dynamics of organization. It’s not light reading but I
