My friend Jeremy Sweeney offered this simple idea in a conversation. We keep designing human systems on the assumption that we (and others) are like Mr Spock. We might do better to acknowledge we’re more like Homer Simpson.
Yep.
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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
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
James and I will be running a 90 minute version of our Open Sauce Live workshop at the Reboot Conference in Copenhagen. This will be on Friday morning at 11.45.
I like what Chris Mowles has to say about John Dewey and Doubt as a form of enquiry. Dewey was interested in experimentation and argued that traditions of thought, such
I’ve always been fascinated by the well-established ritual of creative pitching in advertising. It’s the standard way in which clients start relationships with agencies. How it works is this. The
Tom Peters reports the current New Yorker has a brilliantly reported, eye-popping piece “Battle Lessons: What the Generals Don’t Know.” It’s a report on the way in which junior officers
