I’m off to Glasgow in a few minutes, to facilitate a team day for a group of facilitators there. Hmmm…. on the one hand, a room full of facilitators ought to be a cinch, oughtn’t it? Then again, there’s the risk of being scrutinised and found wanting by experts. Time will tell… but I’m looking forward to it.
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
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
What I’ve learnt from limiting my use of social media for three months….
The Frontal Cortex: Inequality and the Perception of Fairness. I love the experiments psychologists come up with. One of the more powerful examples of this behavior comes from Franz Waals
Hard on the heels of efforts to open source the analysis of thousands of government documents David Weinberger highlights Google’s latest idea: to allow readers to improve the automated translation
Convene Curate, Narrate: the Big Society Network moving forward ~ Big Society Network If you set aside any prejudice one way or another, about the Big Society Project, I think
I hardly ever go to meetings that promise a panel format. I was recently reminded why. It seems to me that as humans we are hugely programmed to play together
