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.
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
Thanks (again!) to Curt Rosengren for pointing to the Zen Entrepreneur. …Most Americans are caught in jobs that they do not like and would rather not be doing. We see
The Simple Software That Could — but Probably Won't — Change the Face of Writing – James Somers – Technology – The Atlantic For me, the software bit is less
Chris Corrigan has a good post on how complicated models masked the complexity of the financial system – and made the perpetrators very rich at everyone’s else’s expense. In these
What if we focus on the ideas that are so sticky they don’t need a post-it note? How often do we leave meetings where the walls are festooned with post-its?
