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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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
Beyond heroic leadership
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
I’m going to run a one-day workshop on Difficult Conversations in London on February 20th. I’m doing with this my friend and collaborator Kay Scorah. As we say in the
Nice timing. Just after my last post about feeds and the value of blogs I rushed off to Paddington to meet Declan Elliott. Declan’s site is fulfil. Declan heard about
This is a great video of Jon Kabat-Zinn talking about mindfulness. There’s a great passage starting around the 48 minute mark about meetings and what it is to really show
Jeff Risley blogs about his agency launching The Red Blue Project. Looking at the state of politics in the US the project is trying to get past polarisation. The agency
