Recommended viewing for contemplating the power of self-organisation and the hidden costs of top-down control. The best line in the commentary was this: “Road capacity might be limited but empathy is boundless.”
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Hat tips: A blog around the clock and Richard Gayle
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.
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
You may have spotted the gratuitous Monty Python references in this blog lately as I spent part of the Easter weekend watching Holy Grail / Life of Brian / Meaning
Paul Levy has some smart things to say about “icebreakers” for workshops in his comment to this: Energisers for Introverts. Just as “ice breakers” make the dangerous (and often wrong)
I liked this thought, tweeted by EskoKilpi: Poorly connected organizations always end up with simple dynamics and repetitive patterns. Highly interconnected organizations may exhibit patterns that can be described mathematically
