The second video in this series of reflections on working with people. We sometimes create magic feathers things that seem to trigger more effective behaviour. But we risk turning them into idols at the expense of taking risks and making new discoveries.
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
I’ve been thinking about Robert Scoble’s piece on encouraging traffic to weblogs and Burningbird’s quite persuasive response. The gist of her reply is write for yourself about the things you
I’ve been rereading stuff by David Bohm and my head is full of his ideas. Too full for me to put them into decent form in a blog post. Fortunately,
Hugh observes Writing about marketing without losing all self-respect is harder than it looks. Couldn’t have put it better myself, so, there, I’ve let Hugh do it for me. He
Geoff Brown looks at a model for getting people engaged (or not) in meetings or movements. It’s called SCARF, standing for… Status – a lot of trouble is caused when
