Greg Satell asks What makes an organisation “networked”? He makes some points challenging either-or thinking about networks. So bureaucracies and silos aren’t inherently bad it’s more a question of recognising other networks exist – and you can connect silos usefully without needing to disparage or dismantle them.
In a lot of meetings, I think facilitation can help people to find other ways to connect across the more officially recognised structures, matrices and hierarchies.
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
Kathy Jourdain writes about working with the our shadow side. It relates to an idea from Jung about the parts of our personalities we keep secret but which inadvertently leak
Chris Corrigan draws a good distinction between structure and control. Snippet: One of the things I hear from many clients is a call for “structure” in conversations. This is a
By way of a comment here the head lemur pointed me to his thoughts on Social Media as an Oxymoron. Social Media is one of those phrases that needs to
The origins of Boba Fett illustrate how creativity can be serendipitous
