Incidentally if you want to explore non-verbal signalling I really recommend gibberish games from improv. Viv and I use them quite a lot in training (described here). I find that if you get people to practice setting up an activity in gibberish and then in normal language, they create a lot more engagement.
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
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Here’s another extract from Viv‘s and my forthcoming little book which presents a few of our favourite ideas about working with people as facilitators and trainers. You can now download
Chris Corrigan posts this quote from Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf: I fell to dwelling upon the romance of the fog. And romantic it certainly was—the fog like the grey shadow
Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” | KurzweilAI Linear thinking about the future is hardwired into our brains. Linear predictions of the future were quite
Viv reviews Letters Left Unsent, the reflections of a humanitarian aid worker. It sounds fascinating, peeling back our surface stereotypes to reveal the rich, messy complexity of the real world.
