Nice post from Jack Martin Leith on how he used Open Space as part of an innovation process. Seems nice and human to me.
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Open Sauce on podcast
Yesterday James Cherkoff and I were interviewed by Neville and Shel of the Hobson and Holtz Report. We kicked around some of the thoughts behind our Open Sauce workshops. There’s
13 April 2005
The power of touch
I’ve long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it’s good to see this research
4 July 2010
Laws of networks
Jack/Zen posts his four laws of networks. I particularly liked his first “Luck = consciousness x transparency”. He explainsLuck is one of the most powerful and accessible currencies in networks
19 February 2010
links for 2010-11-29
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up | Magazine Suggests two parts of the brain can alert us to anomolies but then in some circumstances, delete them from our awareness.
29 November 2010