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, both Dwight Towers and Antonio Dias have been having a go.
Dwight is heading for Bells Beach tomorrow for a schmooze with me and Viv. I think it’ll be good.
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
Please don’t take this too literally, I just need to get this off my chest. A while back, Mark posted some good provocative challenges to notions about behaviour change. Geoff
So on Monday I helped to host We Can’t Go On Meeting Like This. It was a little experiment in creating a different kind of evening meeting. A little over
An instructive post by Mark Lloyd. His son is warned off using the term “brainstorming” – without being given the context. Mark does his homework and makes a great point.
When I’m talking about facilitation, I often find myself saying that the effort to be efficient is what makes meetings inefficient. By setting agendas which assume that groups of people
