I don’t suppose Bertrand Russell was into Improv but it looks like he’d have got it:
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
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
Thanks to Stefan for this: A no-frills budget airline brand is sending shivers down Romania’s flagship carrier Tarom. This airline is so cost-conscious that it didn’t even bother to come
Here’s another succinct insight from Richard Farson’s Management of the Absurd: Many supposed communication problems are actually balance-of-power problems. That is why it probably is unwise to introduce completely open
For those reading this blog thru a newsreader… I’ve been revising the templates for feeds and this has led to posts being renewed unnecessarily. Apologies if that’s been a nuisance;
I’m enjoying Duncan Watts’ Everything is Obvious. It’s a lucid takedown of the many easy mistakes we make in explaining how things happen in the world. To summarise it very
