Following up on WH Auden here’s R D Laing:
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice that how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
Hat tip: Bob Sutton
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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
Michael Herman reflects on his approach to training (specifically for Open Space) which resonates strongly for me. thinking back on the trainings i’ve attended hosted designed and led, the single
… means “a profound sense of caring [for] others and a desire to improve the world,” according to Wiktionary. I can’t pronounce it, but I’ll have some, please. See Tom
I borrowed a great book from my host in Golden Bay. Ellen Langer’s The Power of Mindful Learning. She intelligently challenges some of the assumptions made about how we learn
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy… What we believe
