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.
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
Whilst tweaking copy for our Co-creation Rules Manifesto with James I found myself riffing on the Cluetrain notion that marketing should no longer be done to people… and combining it
Tom Hamilton had me laughing this morning with this comment. I spent much of yesterday travelling from London to Leeds and back by train and on the return journey I
Excellent piece by Anne Zelenka in Web Worker Daily. The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy,
Tom Guariello chatted to me about the notion of “driving change” in organisations and has just uploaded part 1 as a podcast. Neither of us really like the assumptions about
