Thanks to Daryl at Anecdote for this.
While the master quietly served tea the professor talked about wanting to learn Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s overfill! No more will go in!” the professor blurted. “You are like this cup,” said the master.
There’s something rather valuable about the quality of receptiveness, and for some of us it’s worth practicing.
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
This morning I recorded a podcast with Viv McWaters. Viv’s a fellow facilitator and we shot the breeze about a few common interests. Download the Podcast (30m, 10.5 MB) Podcast
Ok I’m getting back to the subject of feedback riffing off Andrew Rixon’s post. (Here are parts one and two.) The story so far: Andrew reflects on why feedback on
Very interesting post by Mark Brady. It contains this diagram. I usually hate this kind of thing but found this one quite engaging. It explores how we respond to shocks;
I’m becoming more and more enthusiastic about Skype (the peer-to-peer voice conversation over the net thingy). Stuart Henshall blogs a lot about it and I agree with him: this is
