Lovely quote from Rilke spotted by Chris Corrigan.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Over at Fast Company, Heath Row reflects on offsites. He shares Cheryl Dahle’s article Can This Off-Site be Saved?. I’m a sceptic about offsites; it’s all too easy to go
Last month I quoted Bill Isaacs on fixed beliefs: Beneath the reluctance to let go of our beliefs is the fear that there will be nothing underneath – a kind
Steve Davis makes a great point: Given that in any given group there are, on average, eight times more participants than there are meeting leaders, targeting meeting leaders alone in
I’m going to run a one-day workshop on Difficult Conversations in London on February 20th. I’m doing with this my friend and collaborator Kay Scorah. As we say in the
