Declan Elliott has some very kind words about me. The feelings are entirely mutual. Check out his thoughts on Perpetual Betas.
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Planning as drowning
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges and respects the limitations of
22 March 2012
IP madness
Two provocative/distubing posts at Boing Boing: Copyright cops crack down on cooks over cakes and What UK’s copyright industries are up to .
17 June 2005
But I’m a good facilitator!
There’s a game that improvisers sometimes play. It allows any actor to simply reject any offer they don’t happen to like from another player. At which point, the offeror is
11 February 2009
The answer to how is yes
A friend emailed me this short blurb about a book by Peter Block – The Answer to How is Yes. I’ll probably never get round to the book but this
22 September 2004