I just googled the phrase “faciliation for surprise” and drew a gratifying blank.
Good. Because it’s a snappy little phrase I’m planning to use to describe what I do.
And big thanks to Freddie Daniells for suggesting it in the course of an excellent conversation over coffee last week.
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
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.
I’m an enthusiastic participant in the whole “social object” conversation. (Hugh crystallised it first here.) I just want to add a caveat before we all get carried away and talk
I’m suffering from model fatigue. It comes from attending too many talks/presentations/lectures in which experts explain the flaws of a prevailing model (often quite well) only to present some shiny
BPS Research Digest: Other people may experience more misery than you realise Usual caveat that it's US college students in the sample. But it makes sense to: we kid ourselves
I’ve written before about Dr Jeff Conklin‘s work on Wicked Problems, and I’ve just discovered a more recent updated version of his paper on the subject. Wicked Problems & Social
