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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Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
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.
Bill Isaacs’ book Dialogue highlights some useful analysis by David Kantor. Kantor developed his thinking about family systems and took it into the organisational world. One of his most interesting
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Jeff Risley blogs that his firm is supporting a survey on cause-related marketing. He’s looking for suggestions for questions. They’re talking to the causes as well as the marketing people.
Seth asks about a Random Act of Madness. I reflect on one of my own and talk about metaphorically poking spiders in jam jars.
