I’ve been talking to people who are coming to my facilitation training workshop in November and found myself riffing on an old Monty Python sketch – to talk about the times when I want to offer more of an explanation of what I’m doing. And expanding on my more improvisational approach to the work. Details of the workshop.
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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
I’m enjoying Duncan Watts’ Everything is Obvious. It’s a lucid takedown of the many easy mistakes we make in explaining how things happen in the world. To summarise it very
This is interesting: Results of an experiment in risk and uncertainty management. Short version: talking about risk narrows the amount of information you will gather; talking about uncertainty leads to
I pointed to this discussion thread [corrected link see comments below] about Word of Mouth the other day. I wanted to share Paul Marsden‘s contribution here.Skeptic says – “‘WOM’ IS
Oh the joys of the mashup. Check out Brokeback to the Future.(Hat tip to Richard Gayle)
