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.
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.
Consortiumnews.com Craig Murray gives his account of the consequences of not towing the party line for the Foreign Office. Bureaucraicies/hierarchies at their worst.
In his book Dialogue and the art of thinking together William Isaacs tells of a charged meeting of Russians and Chechens. At the first toast of the evening the negotiatior/facilitator
Thoughts on the book Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – and relating his themes of complexity and work satisfaction to Improv.
An instructive post by Mark Lloyd. His son is warned off using the term “brainstorming” – without being given the context. Mark does his homework and makes a great point.
