Adrian Segar has a great post pulling together a whole set of reasons why you shouldn’t jam pack meetings with activity. There’s a terrible workaholic ethic running through meetings that are packed with content, and seem to expect people to function at their best sat in chairs, often packed around anti-social cabaret tables or absurd rows of desks, in semi-darkness.
Hat tip: Tweet from Viv
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.
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
I’ve been working my way through Linda Ellinor & Glenna Gerard’s Dialogue which is a “how-to” guide to creating the sort of conversations envisioned by David Bohm in his Proposal
Chris Corrigan posts this quote from Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf: I fell to dwelling upon the romance of the fog. And romantic it certainly was—the fog like the grey shadow
Us and Them continues to engage my attention as David Berreby explores how the mind codes information about our experience. Whenever I engage with this subject I’m struck by the
Dave Pollard reviews Freakonomics. Like Dave I think it’s important to see the difference between complex and complicated. (This is the jumping-off point for my More Space chapter, to be
