I wrote the other day about the dangers of facilitators who are in love with their process. When that happens I think they’re actually relating to their idea, rather than to the people in front of them. It’s a mistake I’ve caught myself making many times. I have a feeling that it’s better to play down the process and play up the potential of the audience to make something of it.
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Like many others I’ve been getting more and more bogus comments from Spammers promoting their sites. So, having delayed for a while, I’ve just installed Jay Allen’s Comment Spam blocker.
Thanks to Tom Guarriello for this I dont’ mean to get all political here, especially on Inauguration Day but doesn’t this title answer it’s own question? And then I’m thinkin’
As giagia puts it succinctly, in a tweet: Chrysler says ‘Thank you, America’… and America tells them where to shove it.
Shawn Callahan sometimes shares this little video clip with people without much preamble, and then asks them what they see happening: OK, most people ascribe human emotions and actions to
