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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When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
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
Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by a chain of which… some
I spent Thursday afternoon at Channel 4 which was hosting a conference on Britain’s education system. My friend Steve Moore (here’s his website) created this for them, as the first
If you’re still wondering “what’s all this fuss about tags” you have to read (or listen to) David Weinberger’s succinct, charming and intelligent explanation. His conclusion: Not only does this
Geoff Lye writes in praise of Gen Y. I really liked the qualities he sees in them. Perhaps especially this: Looking forward companies face challenges – and equally opportunities –
