Chris Corrigan highlights this quote from Paulo Coelho.
When someone makes a decision he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
I like this. People are easily preoccupied with the idea of making a decision as if it’s all about creating certainty. What it’s more about embarking on an adventure? And if it is, are we looking to pressgang the crew or are we taking willing volunteers?
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
Sherry Turkle is an MIT professor who is fascinated by conversation. This article on her ideas made sense to me. Conversations, as they tend to play out in person, are
I’m still mining Keith Sawyer’s Group Genius for insights; the more I re-read it the more useful and powerful I think his research is. One nuggest he reports is the
This video really makes me laugh. The humour might be lost on non-players of Warcraft I don’t know. It shows a group of players on a raid. One of them,
Obviously this is too simplistic. But I have this question for anyone who’s got some process to manage human beings in organisations. You know the sort of thing… a process
