… a question prompted by Chris Corrigan’s excellent story About Seeing. Chris relates how the experience of facilitating Open Space created a vision for the future. Something about this story really touches me.
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
I don’t often write about market research these days. There’s only so much mileage in berating a moribund industry. But I thought Greg Clemenson’s post on adaptive conversations was interesting.
Thoughts on the book Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – and relating his themes of complexity and work satisfaction to Improv.
Nice post from Viv leading to this thought: We act our way into a new way of thinking, we don’t think our way into a new way of acting.
Tim Kastelle writes about the problem with solutions – essentially that they stop us from thinking. He argues for leaving problems open for longer. (I sometimes talk about the danger
