The more I experience Open Space, the more enthusiastic I become. So I enjoyed Andrew Rixon’s post, showing the social network before and after an Open Space meeting.
Before:
After:
One of my mantras is relationships before ideas. Many conference formats overemphasise the top-down delivery of content at the expense of connectedness. Open Space seems to allow the content and relationships to evolve together.
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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
Andrew Sullivan’s compilation of different readers’ views of the recession continues. I’m an American in my early 20s the ink on my Ivy League diploma not yet dry plunging into
Simon Jenkins’ the former editor of the The Times in today’s issue, commenting on his experience of blogs in the US ‘Yet the ground did shake under me. Earlier threats
I liked this thought from Earl Mardle (riffing on this from Seth Godin). I have a little mantra for those who always want to pluck the “low hanging fruit” or
The title of Bob Sutton’s latest post makes lots of sense to me: Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris.
