Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators. Being able to meet the unexpected with calm is usually pretty helpful. I often say that our job is not really to make difficult things easy, but rather to bring a sense of ease to difficult things.
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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
Holding a mirror to experience
Jonah Lehrer in The Frontal Cortex also points to research suggesting communing with nature increases our compassion. I liked Lehrer’s closing thought:As usual, Emerson got it right: “Adopt the pace
RUSHKOFF: Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Book | ARTHUR MAGAZINE A great insight into the staggering brokenness of conventional publishing
I had a stimulating, at times over-stimulating day out at Interesting2007. I don’t go to many conferences whose subjects include reinventing egg bacon, chips and beans as uber-haute cuisine; life
