Oli Barrett has a great post remembering Robert Davies who a few months before his death wrote this:
Our lives are all too short not to share what and who we know so the world can profit and the journey to sutainability can be shortened.
Oli also invokes Theodore Zeldin’s notion that life is a search for people, an idea I find quite appealing today.
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
I’m fond of the running theme of Lawrence of Arabia in which our hero challenges the wisdom that it is written that things are inevitable. His mantra is nothing is
Viv is fond of saying that “facilitation is a performance art.” When I first heard it I wasn’t quite sure what she meant but now I do. It means you
Viv and I have written a new small book. Here’s the opening page. You can download it here. In the film Lawrence of Arabia, there’s a scene where Lawrence is crossing the desert. One
The Group Jazz Chautuaqua is marking its 10th anniversary and they’re asking people who’ve taken part some questions about what they’re up to. I answered their questions and thought it
