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.
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 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
Just rambling around Youtube tonight I came upon this wonderful scene from Casablanca. Nothing is more terrifying to established power than courageous authenticity. A message for our times, I think.
Rather like Jennifer I’ve become a bit lazy about maintaining my blogroll and I tend to agree with her: I’m not really into doing “link swapping”. I’m happy to read
You may have come across the term security theatre, to describe, as Bruce Schneier puts it, “countermeasures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing actually to
I enjoyed this interactive exercise in comparative anatomy from fellow improviser Chris Yukna. Unfortunately our researchers have not completed their investigation of male of the human species. We thought with
