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.
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
I found a lot to agree with in Patrick Thibodeau’s article Innovation is the most abused word in tech The iPad is about as innovative as the toaster. You can
A friend at NPR pointed me to this fascinatiing story (read or listen): A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria. A scientist discovers how bacteria talk to each other so they
Alan Moore has a good post on New Balance which has achieved great sales without much of the marketing hype normally associated with the training shoe sector. Here’s a snippet:
?Fouroboros: Radio-controlled-exploding-mad-cows Mark Brady has a passionate rant against the deficiencies of thinking about security against terror in the US (tags: politics terrorism) —–
