Jonah Lehrer in The Frontal Cortex also points to research suggesting communing with nature increases our compassion. I liked Lehrer’s closing thought:
As usual, Emerson got it right: “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
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
My next reflections video is about the difference between Big M Meetings and little m meetings. I hope you enjoy it.
Jeff Risley quotes Robert Fulghum in his book Maybe maybe not: “I do not believe that the meaning of life is a puzzle to be solved. Life is. I am.
I think there are way too many really bad diagrams in the world of organisations. Visual explanations can be extremely useful and effective. The famous London Underground map is a
Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow also has interesting stuff to say about feedback. He draws an interesting contrast between radiologists and anesthesiologists. The latter are likely to see the
