An instructive post by Mark Lloyd. His son is warned off using the term “brainstorming” – without being given the context. Mark does his homework and makes a great point.
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
Viv has a great post inspired by Matthew May’s book on Elegance. Here’s a snippet but I recommend the whole thing. We humans seem to be hard-wired to believe that
Adrian Trenholm reflects on how a combination of email blogs, LinkedIn and phone led four people who’d never met before to have an animated conversation.
Viv and I have recently shot a short film for our Creative Facilitation website. We wanted to convey the essence of our approach in a couple of minutes. https://johnnie-moore.wistia.com/medias/t8n9nz8lbb?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=400
I enjoyed Galen Strawson’s review of Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking Fast and Slow. Among other things, it’s a great reminder of the limits of our capacity for rational thought,
