I’ve made a few changes to the pages on this site about what I do. This gives more emphasis to the idea of Faciliation for Surprise. Quoting myself…
What characterises good facilitation is that people get surprised
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
Tom Guariello reflects on his first year of blogging. It’s been a tremendous learning experience mostly about myself.
Leonara of Treehugger reflects on this year’s Do Lectures. Lots of good stuff and this line particularly caught my eye: Do Lectures are simply unafraid of being copied because they
The great Reggie Perrin could never stop picturing a hippopotamus at the very mention of his mother-in-law. I’m experiencing a similar mental quirk where the hippopotamus is replaced by blancmange
I liked this TED Talk by Tim Jackson especially his snappy analysis of where our current economic models go awry: We spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t
