Loved this from Chris Corrigan:
I see it all the time where cultivated and well-raised people stumble in the wild land of chaos and open space. Whether it is the tourist in the forest who complains against the mud or the leader in an organization community or country (like Egypt) who clings to the illusion of confidence and control and who cannot make friends with the wild and the chaotic.
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.
Catherine at The F Word reviews the advertising imagery she encounters travelling around London. It’s fascinating. This was spotted by Mike at Londonist who comments It makes for interesting reading.
Richard Gayle has a great post on the difference between chemists and biologists as an example of different approaches to managing systems. Life developed its huge complexity in order to
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs with links to their sites.
Open (finds minds conversations)…: Blogs are bad conversations, psychologist study suggests Antony Mayfield ponts to some interesting research suggesting why online conversations often go awry (tags: blogging dialogue facilitation) —–
