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.
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
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
From Bernadette Doyle’s Client Magnets newsletter A metaphor that I often use to describe the Client Magnets approach is the image of two boys in a garden. One of them
Clive Thompson has a good piece in Wired: Why Idling Mind Is Mother of Invention. He cites evidence that lots of important processing goes on in the brain when we
Chris Corrigan has this great observation about waiting. The second kind of waiting is the one that really fascinates me. This is waiting when we are fully engaged in the
The Spaces Inbetween – 100% Open Roland Harwood points out the lure and the pitfalls, of investing in buildings to support innovation. Instead, government should put more effort into connecting
