A tweet from Rob Paterson pointed me to John Robb’s post Industrial Education. I’ve thought for a long time that our current university system has become prohibitively expensive and vulnerable to the kind of shake up the music business is experiencing. John explores the issues in more depth.
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
Vajra left a good comment (on my post about Twitter) questioning the notion that any activity must have a result that is valuable to the observer regardless of the value
I’m enjoying Jonah Lehrer’s How we Decide. I’m currently on the chapter looking at the role of dopamine on our thinking. Getting a hit from dopamine is what gets people
The recent disruption of the Olympic Torch ritual fascinates and frankly excites me. I’m glad to see China’s Tibet policies challenged and I also see this as part of a
Preserving the joy of discovery in learning experiences
