Viv pointed me to this video which is a great introduction to how we can use the ideas of improv theatre to support creativity and change.
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Show me the change
My friend Geoff Brown has done a good write up for the Show Me The Change Conference in Melbourne this May. I’m looking forward to taking part not least because
26 February 2010
The power outside the company
David Weinberger points to buyitlikeyoumeanit. This site aims to aggregate people’s ratings of companies on a variety of measures. You then get to set up your own scoring system based
2 June 2008
Overwhelm? What overwhelm? (And more on complexity)
Ton Zijlstra has done an eloquent blog Every Signal Starts Out As Noise. He argues, provocatively, Why do we call information and data coming to us noise? Because we know
28 March 2004
Improving Conferences
Chris Corrigan has posted some interesting ideas about improving conferences partly prompted by my recent comments on this subject. I like his description of keynote facilitation: The keynote facilitator combines
27 March 2005