I’ve just posted a couple of interesting articles at the Applied Improv Blog. The first by Izzy Gezell, looks at how Improv is used to support teamwork. The second, by Prof Mary Crossan, explores the range of ways Improv skills are central to supporting innovation in organisations.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
One more thought about ordinariness and its connection to the extraordinary arising from Reboot. Ben Hammersley is a lovely presenter the blogosphere’s answer to Eddie Izzard (what was the question?)
Pablo Suarez has been chatting to Viv since meeting her in Berlin this month. He’s co-author of this excellent report: Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future Risks.
With all this talk of looming battles or alliances between the behemoths of Google Microsoft, and various Media Empires let’s keep an eye out for the little guy. In which
I’m suffering from model fatigue. It comes from attending too many talks/presentations/lectures in which experts explain the flaws of a prevailing model (often quite well) only to present some shiny
