If you’re interested in working with Improv (Improvisational Theatre) techniques in business and are within reach of Washington DC here’s a date for your diary.
On Friday May 13th 10 to 2, there’s a meeting of kindred spirits in Washington and there will be some great people there. My friend Alain Rostain is one of the hosts, and he has been a real pioneer of using improv work to get results in business.
What’s more it’s free. Full details.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
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
Alex Sternick has some great insights on the value of absurdity, including the arresting thought the nonsense can be a path to meaning. it includes a reference to a little study
Jordan Stone at We Are Social has a useful digest of the Econsultancy Social Media and Online PR report. It’s based on talking to around 500 each of clients and
Call me subversive but I like seeing brands challenged, to have the advertising imagery questioned and supplanted. I don’t know the facts behind the email Neil Turner received from his
I must say I am thoroughly enjoying the massive public response to the 2012 Olympic Logo. What a well-deserved pushback to the ludicrous hype with which the thing was launched.
