Gary Schwartz is running an improv workshop in London on Saturday 28 September. I am going for sure and he is bound to attract a great crowd of people.
I’ve written about Gary and his teacher Viola Spolin, before here, here andhere.
Gary is unique and this is a rare opportunity for folks on this side of the pond to experience him.
Booking details are here. I’d love to meet you there.
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
You may have come across the term security theatre, to describe, as Bruce Schneier puts it, “countermeasures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing actually to
Jon Husband has an excellent post on work design. Here’s a taster: companies the world over have expended tens, scores if not hundreds of millions of dollars on large integrated
Mark sums up a great deal of the material he’s gathered over the years. We really are very poor at changing human behaviour…Much poorer than anyone of us would like
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
