Dealing with the gap between performance and reality
I found myself thinking about the play I studied as a teenager – and what it tells us about managing an uncertain world of performances we can’t trust.
Thumbnail Photo by Payton Tuttle on Unsplash
I found myself thinking about the play I studied as a teenager – and what it tells us about managing an uncertain world of performances we can’t trust.
Thumbnail Photo by Payton Tuttle on Unsplash
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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
Beyond heroic leadership

Ben Goldacre has some interesting thoughts about what gets in the way of medicine being truly “evidence based”. Much the same would apply outside medicine. There are so many places

I facilitated a conference for Lambeth College last week. The format was very conversational starting with discussions structured (in terms of hosts and topics) in advance and gradually moving towards

News Desk: Cowboys and Pit Crews : The New Yorker "We train hire and pay doctors to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews people need." Lessons about complexity that apply