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.
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
Dave Pollard reviews Freakonomics. Like Dave I think it’s important to see the difference between complex and complicated. (This is the jumping-off point for my More Space chapter, to be
Tom Guariello has just about his best post ever and that’s saying something. We have now come to a point in history where an 80 year-old gentleman from a cottage
I’m expecting to be in New York at the end of next week and free to meet up over the weekend of 28/9 June if anyone’s interested…
Narcissists Look Like Good Leaders—But They Aren’t! – Association for Psychological Science via @CultureRevealed
