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.
spaciousness over stimulation
An project with the Oxford Praxis Lab
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
According to the Guardian, The most expensive state school in Britain will have no playground. The Cambridgeshire authorities in charge of the new £46.4m Thomas Deacon city academy in Peterborough
Just rambling around Youtube tonight I came upon this wonderful scene from Casablanca. Nothing is more terrifying to established power than courageous authenticity. A message for our times, I think.
Yesterday James Cherkoff and I were interviewed by Neville and Shel of the Hobson and Holtz Report. We kicked around some of the thoughts behind our Open Sauce workshops. There’s
David Gurteen raises an interesting question. Why is conversation easy compared to a monologue? A monologue is a much simpler interaction, I talk you listen. Conversation requires all sorts of
