Rob Paterson linked me to this video. It’s feedback from participants in an Open Space hosted by WOSU in Columbus Ohio.
It’s a pretty good advert for Open Space and its ability to really engage people around their passions.
Rob Paterson linked me to this video. It’s feedback from participants in an Open Space hosted by WOSU in Columbus Ohio.
It’s a pretty good advert for Open Space and its ability to really engage people around their passions.
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
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

I agree with Chris Corrigan: Somehow, the view of learning in the world has been confused with the kinds of quality control that is attached to manufacturing. We imagine that

Viv is visiting and we’ve been reflecting on our experiences using the problem theatre approach. Borrowing ideas from the maker movement and agile processes we see this a way of

Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us

Thanks to Tom Asacker for emailing me a link to this essay by Margaret Wheatley: Disturb me please. Here is some of the introduction: It feels important to me to