I recently stopped managing the website for the Applied Improv network. After four years I felt I’d become stale. Fortunately, Leif Hansen stepped out of the void and rebuilt the site for us on Ning.
It’s working really well. The old site was set up as a blog but very few posts were written. The old set up was just a bit too taxing for people.
On ning, it seems the pain threshold is lower and there’s a whole lot of new life.
And some excellent blog posts.
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
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
Chris Corrigan has posted some interesting ideas about improving conferences partly prompted by my recent comments on this subject. I like his description of keynote facilitation: The keynote facilitator combines
This is probably going to be a mistake. I’ve just read that my friends Viv and Patti have signed up for Reverb10. It’s a challenge to express online a response
Shawn at Anecdote finds another interesting article about the neuroscience of how we change and why we resist change. I blogged about another of Shawn’s finds a few weeks ago
I enjoyed Antony Mayfield’s notes on business networks. This line resonated strongly: We don’t grasp how magnificently terrifyingly complex networks are. We like to draw pictures of them and then
