Mark Earls and are going to host an Improv Arvo on Saturday November 1st 3pm-6pm in London SE1.
Just an afternoon for friends and anyone else interested to get together. As Mark says
No agenda or objective apart from having some fun and playing games – just a chance to stretch our co-creative limbs
Update: We’ve got a venue for free and here’s the eventbrite page for registration.
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
Chris Rodgers argues that we confuse self-organisation with empowerment. Too often, consultants and writers who claim to be speaking from a complexity perspective talk of self-organization as a design parameter.
Ushahidi – Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley – How to Track a Crisis – NYTimes.com (tags: crowdsourcing culture socialmedia technology) Google Public Policy Blog: Brookings: Cloud computing can save govt
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about games and their relevance to organisations. Online gaming is massive and I’m intrigued by what these games provide that so engages their participants.
Rob Paterson has posted a good review of Joe Trippi’s book The Revolution will not be Televised. I’m not a fan of lists but I like most of Trippi’s “7
