Ok, a small additional riff on the theme of my earlier post. Katherine Stone wrote an interesting response giving some examples of personal experiences and stories having more power than fancy-schmancy advertising.
I think this ties in with Chris Anderson’s thoughts about the long tail… that it’s easy to underestimate the cumulative impact of small experiences.
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
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.
Visible power " Overland literary journal An elegantly written discussion of the power politics surrounding wikileaks.
I describe myself as a facilitator but when I work one-to-one some people would call it coaching. I don’t use that term much here for a variety of reasons, many
Alex Mayyasi reports some fascinating research on how much we actually learn from apparently brilliant talks compared to the more normal dreary ones. Groups were shown two presentations one TED-esque
