So many business books and trends seem to have the following pattern.
1. Identify some newish area of scientific research
2. Oversimplify and dramatise it
3. Say how you can now make shedloads of money from it
Mark Earls actively patrols outbreaks of this pattern in relation to neuroscience. His latest post is well worth a read.
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
This Fast Company article from 1995 describes how a native American wisdom council gets taken into the corporate world. Interesting stuff. I read it with some anxiety as I fear
I was rereading this post from 2008 this morning and thinking again about this little model, spotted then by Roland Harwood. The gist of the post, and Roland’s argument, was
Jonah Lehrer reports on a new study on the effects of stress. This makes intuitive sense to me: [C]hronic stress reduces cellular plasticity (including neurogenesis) which might make us (and
If everyone in a group feels they are sharing in a challenge it can be quite a powerful experience. But there are potential downsides too. If the challenge isn’t really
