Piers Young blogs on the sleep advantage.
The hard (and repeated) lesson seems to be this: if you want to be creative you need to do whatever you can to stop thinking about the problem. Get some rest, go for a walk – anything – but if you stay up all night working on it, chances you’ll be a blank slate.
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
I’ll be running an evening of Improv at The Hub on Tuesday October 11th hosted by The Fun Federation. Here’s how Hannah, who runs TFF, describes it… Our next session
Often it’s in so called negative emotions that we can find the real life in our meetings
I’ll be running an Open Evening on 22 March at 5pm along with my colleagues at The Clarity Partnership. The theme is The Elephant Under the Table. We’ll be exploring
Alex Kjerulf has a rare rant against Fast Company’s celebration of the provocative approach to management of Fernando Flores. I don’t know what’s worse – the awful methods Flores employs;
