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.
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
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
Charlie Brooker | Let's think outside the box here: maybe blue-sky thinking is nonsense | Comment is free | The Guardian Scabrous takedown of blue sky thinking. ""Nudge unit". "Big
When talking about marketing these days I often show people the home page of internalmemos.com and suggest that these days it’s not safe to think of any memo as internal.
Kathy Sierra has been listening to Thomas Lewis co-author of A General Theory of Love. I recommend her summary of some of his ideas; she’s fastened on the same bits
Ross Dawson kicks off a promised series of posts on megatrends in professional services with one on client sophistication. At first I thought this was just going to be telling
