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.
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
My pal Alan Moore (such a talented family don’t you think?) has a good post about Levi’s Antidote programme. This is a rare effort by a big brand to genuinely
The strangest building on the London Skyline is generally known as The Gherkin. I was invited a launch party there by my friend Sue Glasser and it was quite fun
I should write a longer and more lucid post about this, but those ones never get done. Please regard this as a starter for 10. I had a cuppa with
Mark Earls makes a point worth repeating: The thing thing and the people thing. One of the most unhelpful assumptions I come across most when I’m talking about how things
