There’s a lot of creative energy in failure, if you don’t take it too seriously. Here are some of the out-takes from our recent video shoot. In some ways it tells you more about how Viv and I work than the official version. Quite a lot of of our training work uses rapid, playful failure as way to learn – a much richer experience than giving out right answers.
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
A few years ago I wrote this post about insight being the popcorn of therapy. I quoted from the book A General Theory of Love: Patients are often hungry for explanations
I’ve been reflecting further on the punchy attacks on managerialism made by John Seddon (blogged here). Here are some not massively coherent thoughts. One of Seddon’s major arguments is that
So my sample of Stormhoek has arrived along with Hugh‘s excellent little booklet. The booklet starts by talking about an experiment in disruptive marketing, and only gets round to pitching
I was thinking about the joys of the Fast Show’s Channel 9 – a ludicrous spoof of foreign TV shows. (Click here if you can’t see the embedded video) You
