Following up on WH Auden here’s R D Laing:
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice that how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
Hat tip: Bob Sutton
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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
Dave Snowden has a good line for metaphors about complexity and his latest based on a “magic roundabout” near Swindon, is a cracker.
Yesterday I met Jon Husband and his partner in Portobello market and had a great chat about social software, dialogue the meaning of life etc. Jon’s one of the creators
A few startling facts in this little video: Hat tip: Steve Hardy, who also points to this very contrasting – and comforting – use of visual communication by fridge and
