Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.)
Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work Let’s Play
Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.)
Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work Let’s Play
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

The Psychology of Architecture | Wired Science | Wired.com The colour of the room seems to have a powerful impact on how we think when in it. File this with all

Yesterday I facilitated an Open Space for the Bricking It conference held at Channel 4 in London. With my friends at Policy Unplugged, I’ve developed a stripped down version of

Rob Paterson quotes William Manchester, describing why he jumped hospital ship to rejoin his wartime unit and face near-certain death: And then, in one of those great thundering jolts in

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