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.
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.
It was funny to have people come up to me at the conference yesterday to ask me how if my loo was working yet. The joys of blogging. For those
Just a quick post from my hotel in Malmo Sweden. Have spent the day in meetings with fellow blogger Jennifer Rice. It’s been great to meet her and have animated
Here’s another insight from that Dialogue book. The roots of the word “intelligence” are gather and in-between. I love that. What if we think of Intelligence is being in… or
I’m pretty bored of a lot of marketing and a lot of the conversations about it. I enjoyed Alan Jourdier’s latest post, It Really Is About (Gulp) Leadership. It resonates
