I’m running my workshop, Facilitation for Surprise next Monday at the Islington Hilton. I’m looking forward to it. There are currently 2 spaces left if you fancy making a late booking.
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
I’ve created two new RSS feeds for those who’d like a less rambling stream from this blog. One gives you just material relating to facilitation the other branding. Here’s the
Annette Clancy spotted Mark Vernon’s How to Live Well in 2010. Not your typical list of new year resolutions but some thought provoking ideas inspired by ancient philosophers. This one
I borrowed a great book from my host in Golden Bay. Ellen Langer’s The Power of Mindful Learning. She intelligently challenges some of the assumptions made about how we learn
Andrew Sullivan’s compilation of different readers’ views of the recession continues. I’m an American in my early 20s the ink on my Ivy League diploma not yet dry plunging into
