I’ve just booked a great adventure for November. I’m off to the Applied Improv Conference in Banff Canada. I skipped the conference last year, but the combination of a horde of Improv fans plus the Canadian Rockies is too good to miss. I’m going to add on a trip elsewhere in North America as well I reckon.
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
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
At Russell‘s prompting I found this amazing image of Velcro taken by Dee Breger – it’s near to the bottom of that page on Dee’s site. I think of Velcro
Antony Mayfield reports that the Tory party are setting up an area for bloggers at their next conference. He observes:New Labour swept to power partly as a result of that
Lisa Haneberg quotes Carl Rogers: I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real. Lisa has the
The freakonomics blog looks at why we desire but reject creative ideas. The irony is that as a society we’re constantly talking about how much we value creativity. And yet,
