Andrew Sullivan quotes Christian Wiman:
I don’t think you can spend your whole life questioning whether language can represent reality. At some point, you have to believe that the inadequacies of words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.
I think there is wisdom here for more than poets.
Magic, relationship and changing status
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.
Carman Pirie blogs how an memo from Verizon marked “Proprietary & Confidential. For Internal Use Only.” inevitably got published. The memo’s about how to counter the iPhone. As Carman says,
Harold Jarche and Adrian Segar added some useful comments to my recent post about the pitfalls of plenary sessions. Essentially I was saying the the one-to-many centralised way of handling
Mark at Anecote has a good post on not solving the problem. We generally find with complex issues that once you go into ‘problem solving mode’ you start heading down
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