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
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
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
A few weeks ago some of us were wondering if Jon Stewart could maintain his success after his favourite comic target left office. It looks like we needn’t have worried.
Alex Sternick has some great insights on the value of absurdity, including the arresting thought the nonsense can be a path to meaning. it includes a reference to a little study
Just an update on workshops I’m playing with at the moment… Crumbs! I’ve been co-creating this with my friend Viv. We tried it out in raw form in Melbourne and
Ton Zijlstra has a good post on his encounters with Howard Rheingold on Blogwalk – how collective action will change the world. These phenomena – collective action open source marketing
