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.
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.
My friend Julian Burton has just created an online version of his current exhibtion at the LSE The Art of Complexity. It’s a delightful exhibition showing Julian’s unusual perspective on
The second video in this series of reflections on working with people. We sometimes create magic feathers things that seem to trigger more effective behaviour. But we risk turning them
Robert Paterson's Weblog: How we got fat Rob unearths a remarkable bit of old propaganda for the fizzy drink business in America. Why Controlling Bosses Have Unproductive Employees – Research
The Dialogue Experiment A nice description of one man's experiment with David Bohm's approach to dialogue. I found this in a twitter exchange with @CoCreatr that started with a tweet
