As I mentioned in a recent post I didn’t much like In Search of Excellence when it came out all those years ago. It’s only in more recent times that I discovered Keith Johnstone’s articulare celebration of the benefits of being average. Viv has a nice post reminding me of his wisdom.
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
It seems that gremlins are preventing many of the links within the weblog from working properly. I’ve raised tickets with my host and Six Apart. Hopefully, we’ll get it fixed
Euan has a go at the mindlessness of most of what passes for marketing these days. I confess I’m pretty much a grumpy old man about it myself, grumbling and
My friend Jeremy Sweeney offered this simple idea in a conversation. We keep designing human systems on the assumption that we (and others) are like Mr Spock. We might do
Lee at Headshift has a long, interesting reflection on Reboot and on why so many conferences fail to match it for engagement and value. Lee says:There is also I think,
