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.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
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
Annette Clancy spotted this YouTube: A vision of students today. Michael Wesch asked his students – what is it like being a student today? – and dozens of them collaborated
Courtesy of Hugh I spent Friday evening at a freebie screening of The 300. 300 was about the number of people in the audience too – a little different from
I had a great lunch with Adrian Trenholm today and got home to read his lastest post about two agencies which are showing good signs of switching on to conversational
My friend Julian Burton tweeted a link to this animation which appears to be an unintentionally ironic commentary on the cliches of human resources.
