I found this quote in Phil Dourado‘s admirably snappy free book chapter for February.
Leadership is emotional. Leadership deals with feelings. Leadership is made up of dreams inspiration excitement desire, pride, care, passion, and love. The areas of our lives where we show the strongest leadership – including our communities, families, organizations, products, services, hobbies, and customers – are where we’re most in love. Jim Clemmer
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
I’ve been thinking about robust uncertainty a lot lately. Viv said something in an email recently that struck this chord. The gist of it was confidence is not certainty but
I’m excited to be kicking off the New Year by facilitating an Open Space in Galway. This will be for Reset Ireland taking place on the 15th and 16th January.
I facilitated a conference for Lambeth College last week. The format was very conversational starting with discussions structured (in terms of hosts and topics) in advance and gradually moving towards
Evelyn Rodriguez asks in a comment to my post on Ampage in Conversation “But I’d like more ampage…taking risks …” I know that’s a common viewpoint, but I wonder why
