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.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
I see that there’s been another tragic story of a young child suffering horrible abuse in Haringey. There is a perfectly understandable despair that this seems to happen repeatedly. There
Earl Mardle gives another example of a business suffering from scrutiny of detail. A listener to KSFO in San Francisco compiled highlights of its right wing shock jocks on his
I found this quote in Phil Dourado‘s admirably snappy free book chapter for February. Leadership is emotional. Leadership deals with feelings. Leadership is made up of dreams inspiration excitement desire,
I was very sad to learn that John Ptak the husband of my friend Patti Digh, has been struck with cancer. Patti’s response to this, as to so many of
