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.
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
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.
Larry Flynt, millionaire pornographer was sued by moral “majority” leader Jerry Falwell over five years. Then they became friends, according to Larry. Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
Jonah Lehrer’s How We Decide explores committee decision-making as a metaphor for what goes on inisde our minds when we make individual decisions. He gives the example of a New
The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy More on the theme of how power corrupts
I’ve just recorded a half-hour interview with Kristi Casey Sanders of planyourmeetings.com. We talked about some of the ideas in the book and focussed on some of the simpler things
