Tenneson Woolf writes some thoughts about how to create resiliency in groups. Some good ideas here. I’ve been reflecting in particular on these: letting go of “aloneness” and its sister:
Belonging — Presume connection until apprehended. With colleagues. With community. With purpose.
I that’s one I need to practice more!
I also liked Tim Merry’s aphorism:
Be yourself. Everybody else is taken.
Hat tip: Geoff Brown’s tweet
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
Chris Corrigan orginally pointed me to Peggy Holman and Anne Stadler‘s thinking on Emergent Organisations. This is rich material, and Chris provides a good summary as a way in. In
Josh Porter has a good post on recent events at Digg. This is the bit that most interested me: One is as described by Mike Arrington of Techcrunch: Digg Surrenders
James and I are getting to work on a new manifesto for Change This. It’s called Co-creation Rules a deliberately ambiguous title. Our aim is put together some of our
Seth spotted this ad for troubled American Airlines: and comments Let’s say you run an airline with a horrible cost structure and you’re facing bankruptcy on an almost daily basis.
