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
There’s been a lot of coverage for a report by MPs slamming our food industry for its role in the growth of obesity in the UK. The big food companies
Evelyn Rodriguez posts her frustration with Theory X Marketing: I’ll be fairly honest and say I come away from marketing meetings depressed about how the majority of marketers view people.
Roland reminded me about this video. A guy gets a bike where the normal steering is reversed so if you turn the handlebars left, the front wheel goes right. It’s
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
