Jeff Risley seems to like me more than Skype. I prefer things that way round.
UPDATE: Rick Cecil enjoyed the seminar too. “There’s a couple more of his seminars coming up and I would strongly recommend you attend.” If you want to follow his advice here are some details of the telephone version.
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
I was in a Waterstones the other day surveying the shelves full of business books and thinking: if these books really did have the answers how come things aren’t closer
Surfing around I found this elegant description of the Satir Change Model by Steve Smith. I’m fairly phobic about “change models” but I’ve worked with this one and sometimes found
finding a place to communicate that isn’t too earnest, nor too plastic
I don’t suppose Bertrand Russell was into Improv but it looks like he’d have got it: To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation,
