Here’s a great TED talk by Stuart Brown on the serious importance of play. The opening story about how a polar bear and husky opt for play instead of predation is pretty amazing. And I loved these lines: “nothing lights up the brain like play” and “the opposite of play is not work it’s depression”.
Hat tip David Smith’s daily feed
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Michelle Holliday has written a splendid exploration of the deep value of improv. ..the true promise of improvisation is that it helps us move beyond a mechanistic paradigm to one
For some reason, the tide of spam comments to this site is rising. I probably need to upgrade to Movable Type 3.x and use moderation to forestall it, but I
Nick Smith:A question that often comes up is how to make inspiration more solid and stable, and not confined to brief flashes. And the answer in one way or another,
The idea of “happiness for people who can’t stand postive thinking” is like catnip for someone like me. In this trailer for his book Oliver Burkeman eloquently pushes back against
