Dave Pollard links to: Who are you trying to impress.
Justin Kownacki analyses the pitfalls of conversation where the battle for status precludes deeper engagement. His suggested remedies are all about allowing status to drop. That’s a bit of theme for me this weekend.
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
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
James and I are nearing the end of our visit to New York exhausted but enthused. We’ve had some great meetings which have really fired our enthusiasm for our Open
The (other) J Moore continues our Improv conversation. He makes this point really well: I’ve found the biggest misnomer about Improv in business is executives believe Improv is acting. Improv
We don’t need another neologism surely? But if we did this would work for me: Hat tip: Dwight Towers —–
