When we are flooded with information and advice, we risk a kind of cognitive overload. AI hallucination goes beyond errors of fact; human thinking is of wholly different quality. When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips, it’s an embodied practice of giving moment-by-moment attention.
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.
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
Josh Porter has a good post on recent events at Digg. This is the bit that most interested me: One is as described by Mike Arrington of Techcrunch: Digg Surrenders
Tim Kastelle points out that people mostly don’t like new ideas. Novelty disturbs and repels – no wonder it’s so hard to get our great new ideas across. Machiavelli was
Jennifer Rice has been talking about our meetings in Malmo. Modesty (the False brand of it) prevents me from quoting the very flattering things she says (but do take a
I’ve just spent two days on a training course with some colleagues I’ll be working with this autumn. It was held at the excellent Wallacespace in Central London. Training is
