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.
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
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
Earl has a nice riff on Euan’s post about the real value in networks being the people and not the technology. Euan puts a better suit on something I’ve been
I like Bruce Sterling’s speech at Webstock. Market failures have blown holes in civil society. The Greenhouse Effect is a market failure. The American health system is a market failure
This week I took part in an Improv performance here in London. I did this with eight other people. All of us did a series of six evening workshops playing
Tom Atlee looks at whether changes depends on individual commitment or effective systems. It’s both of course: Whether we assume that “it all starts with the individual” or “the individual
