A look through my site log led me to this posting by Chris Corrigan. Chris does Open Space facilitation and gets people demanding evidence of its results.
What started to pick at my thinking was this implicit assumption that if something does not immediately change things in a controlled and predictable way, then it has no value. And so I crafted a long response to this problem this morning, which I reproduce here.
If you can give yourself five minutes, it’s worth reading.
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 tweeted this post by Andrew Rixon last month: From Social Networks to Living Systems – Some principles to reflect on. It’s brief and well worth reading in full. I
I found this site very thought-provoking: Give us back our game. It argues that kids’ football has been spoiled by the over-active participation of adults.Today’s children learn from the grown-ups
Gallup’s latest survey shows the lack of engagement of workers with their jobs – a sad reflection on the failure of branding
I enjoyed the mini-conference, Blogging – a new conversation? yesterday. Whose authority? I was supposed to talk about whether blogs were “the new source of authority”. This gave me an
