This is the best improv course I’ve ever done.
You go for a series of evening sessions where you play with your fellow participants and then on the last evening you put on a performance together. For a real audience.
Slightly scary in prospect brilliant in practice.
I’m thinking of doing it again, and I highly recommend it – if you’re in the London area and can free up Monday evenings starting in October.
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
The Observer | Magazine | Just Say ‘No’ Another trend is spotted: the New Puritans who eschew binge drinking, long-haul tourism etc. Found via Tim Kitchin who dubs them the
Stuart Henshall reports a Dave Snowden keynote. Very clever stuff though I did get lost in one or two places. What sticks with me most is Dave’s question: What’s the
Viv pointed me to this video which is a great introduction to how we can use the ideas of improv theatre to support creativity and change.
Well here’s a new approach to the challenge. (Hat tip: Ian McKenzie via Bruce Lewin) —–
