Paul Levy came up with a word in a comment to his post about “icebreakers”.
Some briefs might translate as “can you facilitate for these people to do what I want” in which case you need a facipulator, not a facilitator.
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
You’ve got to admire David Sackett. He has declared that he would “never again lecture write, or referee anything to do with evidence based clinical practice”. Sackett is not doing
When I was finishing at Oxford my annoyingly self-confident peers were pretending to agonise. Should they work as monstrously overpaid consultants, or… monstrously overpaid bankers? Those whose greed inspired them
On the under-rated power of dreaming in innovation (and getting along together)
I’ve just finished the book Natural Capitalism. It’s pretty rare for me to make it to the end of any business book; 9 times out of 10 the second halves
