How could I miss the opportunity presented by my last post to include Monty Python’s brilliant exposition of how those in power can’t stand it when the peasants fail to conform?
Power, love and “cheap tricks”
Magic, relationship and changing status
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Arriving without luggage
leaving your props behind
Ghost lights..
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
Hand grenades and hamster wheels
we’re hungry for connection
Are we really connecting?
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
Singing on the subway
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
Fingerspitzengefühl
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Ski poles…
Letting go in order to get in flow…
Bunny Bunny
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Smart conversation: speak for yourself
Hugh’s got me going with his Smarter Conversations riff. Another element of smart conversation is that people speak for themselves. I have learnt to be wary of “second-hand” conversations where
5 January 2005
links for 2010-08-06
Mindapples I met the guy behind this the other day. It's a simple initiative to promote mental health in a conversational down-to-earth way. Rather brilliant I think. (tags: creativity crumbs!)
6 August 2010
Better meetings, the online course
Now we’ve done the book Viv and I are turning our minds to other ways of spreading the word… that meetings don’t have to be awful. So we’re happy to
29 April 2013
On conversation…
Lisa Haneberg shared this quote with me by email. Oh the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure
13 November 2005
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