When all of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now free online… do you really want to pay good money to schlep to something that’s probably nothing like as good, where you can’t control the pace nor when you’re best suited to absorbing the content?
I don’t suppose this will stop most organisations from using expensive face-to-face meetings for the dreary “downloading” of content. But it should.
Hat tip: Jon Husband via Facebook
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
The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy More on the theme of how power corrupts
Tom Guarriello has a nice post on doing just enough facilitation. Just enough = elegant = the sweet spot. That’s what I’m looking for whenever I design anything: a meeting
Two other posts on Tom G’s blog have caught my eye, and seem related. In this one he describes a friend’s move from Upper West side lifestyle in New York
I’ve learnt a lot from Chris Corrigan and the way I’ve learnt it has been interesting to me. For example I’d hear Chris emphasise that facilitation is a practice. At
