Surfing around I found this elegant description of the Satir Change Model by Steve Smith. I’m fairly phobic about “change models” but I’ve worked with this one and sometimes found it helpful – and human. For instance, it acknowledges the role of chaos in change and the wisdom of not ending it prematurely… (Apols to whoever’s blog it was that linked me to this, I got lost somewhere)
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.
Knowledge Bridge: Academic Publishing inhibits the Free Flow of Knowledge Olaf Brugman asks, In other words: why do authors create costly dependencies on publishers, chain-ball themselves, give up their rights?
I was very impressed by Dr Ben Goldacre in this remarkable TV smackdown of Prof Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman’s sensational claims about Facebook rotting children’s brains. There’s even
David Gurteen highlighted one of Dave Snowden‘s precepts today: Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success. I’ve written before that most people get this in theory in organisations but applying
For the last few weeks I’ve been doing a weekly improv workshop (as a participant) with a group of about 9 others ably organised by Sprout. The good thing is
