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?
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Random Acts of Madness
Seth asks about a Random Act of Madness. I reflect on one of my own and talk about metaphorically poking spiders in jam jars.
23 January 2005
Two sorts of consultation
By accident two British Government efforts at consultation have come my way today. The first is contained in the Guardian News Blog, where this article, How should we fund an
16 February 2006
Consistency
Lisa Haneberg quotes Carl Rogers: I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real. Lisa has the
21 August 2006
Fireside chat with Lisa Haneberg
Lisa invited me to do one of her fireside chat podcasts the other day, which was fun. You can download/stream it here. We talk about facilitation and how I got
14 July 2006