I’m making some more little videos reflecting on the business of working with people. This first one was prompted by looking at the sales pitches of training companies at a conference/exhibition. I describe the event as exciting, but in a boring kind of way.
It got me thinking about the urge to impress, and how it can affect the way we talk and create together.
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 tweet from Shawn Callahan led me to this: Curioser and curioser. A writer is headhunted to write speeches for the Australian government and discovers a world of waste stupidity
The Observer | Magazine | Just Say ‘No’ Another trend is spotted: the New Puritans who eschew binge drinking, long-haul tourism etc. Found via Tim Kitchin who dubs them the
From The Challenge of Co-Production published by NESTA:One former member of the Bristol drugs action team complained that he had to keep his eyes on 44 different funding streams, nine
A couple of days ago I blogged about two posts by Sean Howard and Piers Fawkes. They seemed to have a common thread of dissatisfaction with business-as-usual (in stakeholder research
