My pal and business partner James Cherkoff has a pithy little post on control and dealing with not having it.
But yes the rules are different and this is – maybe – where the problems and the fears arise. If you are a stellar brand which has always had the pulling power of a small super nova what do you do when someone says gravity has been reversed and that your satellites are drifting away to a new cosmos? You boil over and try to change it all back.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Thanks to Colin Morley for pointing to Polly Toynbee’s Guardian article A Hedonist’s Charter. “Money does not bring contentment. So how do you forge a politics where happiness is the
It’s become a kind of truism these days that we all need to get more forgiving about making mistakes. Perhaps what needs more attention is noticing that we may have
Harold Jarche reflects on Tom Gram’s post Everyday Experience is not Enough. Tom argues: No one in their right mind would argue that experience is not a powerful teacher or
