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
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
What I’ve learnt from limiting my use of social media for three months….
I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer’s work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that they can perform it by
Ian McKellan put in a delightful performance on the telly this morning challenging fundamentalists who cite the bible as the absolute authority on morality. (Basically saying this was just a
Am currently in Akaroa in a house overlooking the bay and it’s quite beautiful, a world away from England. Continued amazing sunshine dictates heavy sunblock and very light blogging.
