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.
What do we mean by “reading the room?”
An project with the Oxford Praxis Lab
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A spark across a gap
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
Power, love and “cheap tricks”
Magic, relationship and changing status
Arriving without luggage
leaving your props behind
Ghost lights..
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
Hand grenades and hamster wheels
we’re hungry for connection
Are we really connecting?
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
Singing on the subway
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
Fingerspitzengefühl
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Ski poles…
Letting go in order to get in flow…
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Dialogue experiment
With my friends Mark Hodge and Alok Singh I helped to host an experimental dialogue on Monday at The Hub. This continues my interest in ways for groups to create
11 October 2005
Bohm on enfoldment
I’m fascinated by the thinking of David Bohm. Here’s an interview with him from 1987. Serious brain food. One of Bohm’s ideas was that of the implicate order; that everything
14 November 2010
The great return
I’m thoroughly enjoying Rob Paterson’s bold series of posts on the theme The Great Return. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Well illustrated forthright,
16 January 2006
Nice post
Jory des Jardins’ mum likes her latest post (see the comments). And so do I. Living Without a Net: An Odyssey into Self-Employment (Part XVII): On Defining Success and Allowing
30 June 2005