Viv pointed me to this video which is a great introduction to how we can use the ideas of improv theatre to support creativity and change.
Fingerspitzengefühl
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
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Ski poles…
Letting go in order to get in flow…
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
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Open Space and Sugar
On Thursday I facilitated a workshop for the BBC and AHRC on the theme of User Generated Content and its implications. I used Open Space and it seems as though
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The perils of abstraction
Charles Scalfini gives a concise explanation of a way experts often make bad teachers. As their experience in a subject grows, they are able to form more and more useful abstractions.
15 October 2016
Idle thoughts on Organisation
I’m fascinated by the way we use language and sometimes don’t notice its impact – how its structure shapes our thinking. A lot of languages including English, are big on
11 July 2006
Best-practice-itis
Dave Snowden says this video on how to do a “Peer Assist” put him a curmudgeon role. See how far into the cartoon you get before it has the same
22 February 2007
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