I made a short film to give a flavour of the upcoming Creative Leadership Workshop. I’m running it with Viv here in Cambridge on 31 August to 2 September. All the booking details are here.
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
I’ve read and greatly enjoyed Daniel Goleman’s stuff on Emotional Intelligence. But I feel unhappy about his involvement with Hay Consulting where he endorses their impressively titled Emotional Competence Inventory Accreditation. Emotional intelligence cannot be reducted to ratings and scorecards. In doing so, we risk masking the subtle mysteries of human relationships for a bogus mechanistic precision.
The recent disruption of the Olympic Torch ritual fascinates and frankly excites me. I’m glad to see China’s Tibet policies challenged and I also see this as part of a
Open (finds minds conversations)…: Blogs are bad conversations, psychologist study suggests Antony Mayfield ponts to some interesting research suggesting why online conversations often go awry (tags: blogging dialogue facilitation) —–
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