I’ve just had an article published in Argent (the Journal of the Financial Services Forum). Mutualism begins at home (pdf) is part of a special feature on Mutualism. In this piece I share some Improv exercises intended to bring the idea of mutualism to life as an experience not as a theory. Enjoy.
UPDATE: If you want to do the face drawing exercise online, check out GE’s Imagination Cubed – thanks to Marc Orchant for the tipoff.
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
Viv and I have now published the pdf copy of our new short book, Nothing is Written. It’s based on our experiences facilitating and training groups from San Francisco to
This diagram[1] pops up in my social streams from time to time. I grabbed it from this site. It aims to show that you must have five elements in place
Following up on WH Auden here’s R D Laing: “The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to
Adrian Trenholm points to Bessemer Venture Partners Anti Portfolio. Essentially a list of their big mistakes. I agree with Adrian, it’s a good example of marketing that avoids the presentation
