There’s a great line in the first Lord of the Rings movie where Gandalf assumes great power but then shifts status to create relationship. This gets me thinking about how how we might all use some of that skill to create a bit of magic of our own…
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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.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
A review in praise of the Beyond Bullets website – Power Point as if humans mattered!
Often at the end of a lively open space, there are participants who say things would have been better with more structure, and/or express anxiety that things may have happened
How The Seemingly Chaotic But Wildly Successful Fringe Festival Makes It Work | Fast Company "The job of the Fringe staff "is to do the absolute minimum necessary to make
This story came to me via Sue Glasser. An ecologist studying flamingos on Kenya
