I’m quite interested in the idea of things being pointless. This fabulous bit of co-creation (South Park meets Alan Watts) delights me.
So many meetings start out with anxious lists of what must be completed by the end. I can understand the anxiety but it risks killing the energy that comes from being present to the process with enthusiasm and an openness to possibility. (Chris Corrigan had some good things to say about seeing past endings in this podcast.)
Hat tip: Euan.
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.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Ton Zjilstra reports: Katrina: Foreign Aid 95% Unclaimed Ton makes a great point here: The Washington Post uses the word ‘allies’ where I would write neighbours friends and/or empathizing and
In facilitation, we need to be flexible and not dogmatic about our process
The Guardian has started its own version of the HuffPo comment is free. (They’re well ahead of most mainstream media in their embrace of the digitial, so I was surprised
I’ve met Matt Weinstein several times at Improv conferences and always found him hilarious engaging and unrelentlingly enthusiastic about life. So what happens when someone this positive is cheated of
