Peter Gray highlights the downsides of evaluation for creativity
In experiment after experiment the participants who made the most creative products were those who did not know that their products would be evaluated. They were the ones just playing, not concerned about judgments or rewards.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
A tweet from Shawn Callahan led me to this: Curioser and curioser. A writer is headhunted to write speeches for the Australian government and discovers a world of waste stupidity
An argument about not liking fish reveals the complexity of even a simple conversation
Maria Popova spots this great comment from John Steinbeck. If there is a magic in story writing and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to
Richard Edelman announces Today Technorati and Edelman announced that Edelman will have an exclusive right to offer Technorati’s analytic tools in Chinese, French, German, Italian and Korean, starting with French
