What if we focus on the ideas that are so sticky they don’t need a post-it note?
How often do we leave meetings where the walls are festooned with post-its? But do we really believe they are the sign of real productivity?
If we let go of this urgent need to “capture” knowledge, would we perhaps notice some more interesting things that are going on?
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
Here are a couple of my favourite cartoons from The Superest website. It’s a continuing improv cartoon site where folks invent cartoon superheroes to outdo the last superhero. Hat tip:
My friend John Winsor is ticked off with Audible essentially for continuing to charge his credit card having agreed to cancel his subscription. So John blogged his complaint, and the
Applying ideas of fellow citizenship in training and facilitation
When all of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now free online… do you really want to pay good money to schlep to something that’s probably nothing like as good, where you
