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
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.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
This weekend an experimental Thinking Hotel is happening in Soho, London over 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday noon. Here’s the essence:The Thinking Hotel is a vision of a future
A propos the Blogging – a real conversation? conference Lloyd Davis takes up my request to write down what he said during my talk. He claims to have a “rambling,
This is another post on feedback, following up on Andrew Rixon’s post. (Part one here.) In his article on the limits of feedback – Does your leadership reduce learning? (pdf),
My friend Oli Barrett has emailed me about his latest idea. We’re giving 10 000 young people a £10 note, and one month to do as much as possible with
