Here’s the latest in my reflections series.
I love the show Game of Thrones and it strikes me that it highlights a few points about stories in organisations. We love them, but we get tripped up by them. Something to remember when working with people.
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
Harold Jarche » Let’s talk about work "In a networked knowledge-based economy where initiative creativity and passion trump intellect diligence and obedience; being “at” work 8 hours a day makes
Viv has a great post about games and their shadow side. It includes a good example where facilitators are just too eager to create supposedly high energy games when they’re
Chris has a great post today: values tools and authentic facilitation which really resonates with me. This passage gets to the nub: Chaordic confidence describes the ability to stay in
Often at the end of a lively open space, there are participants who say things would have been better with more structure, and/or express anxiety that things may have happened
