Here’s the latest in my reflections series.
I love the show Game of Thrones and it strikes me that it highlights a few points about stories in organisations. We love them, but we get tripped up by them. Something to remember when working with people.
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.
Thoughts provoked by Robert Paterson’s excellent essay on canoeing, systems thinking, the limits of mechanistic thinking and more.
Chris Corrigan has a terrific post which for me, captures the paradoxes we face trying to create change in the world. He quotes Adam Kahane: Bill Torbert of Boston College once
According to legend, famed cellist Pablo Casals was asked, at the age of 93, why he continued to practice. He replied, “because I think I’m noticing an improvement.” Practice is
Further reflections on Dave Snowden and the difference between the complex and merely complicated. The source of a lot of trouble in my life and other people’s!
