I’m going to be helping to run a facilitation training this autumn in London based on the programme developed my friend Viv McWaters in Australia –Facilitating with Confidence.
Viv will be hosting this autumn workshop with me and our colleague Trish Stevenson.
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
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Last week I recorded a conversation with Tom Guarriello and Andrew Rixon about the language of facilitation. This was prompted by the research Andrew has published on this subject. It’s
Joyce Wycoff asks Do you ever think about moments that change your life? and continues with a few examples. Here’s her own: One Butterfly Moment happend during a weekend from
Recommended viewing for contemplating the power of self-organisation and the hidden costs of top-down control. The best line in the commentary was this: “Road capacity might be limited but empathy
Chris Corrigan has an excellent post on dealing with cynicism inspired by Euan Semple’s mini-rant against pomposity. Snippet: I have recently had the experience of people saying to me that
