I’m a firm believer in the power of experience, of doing, in learning. Nothing new there – it’s pretty standard practice nowadays and variations of experiential learning cycles abound. For me it’s about emotional engagement. I can learn without doing. I can learn from books, videos, presentations and all that jazz. But it’s sometimes hard […]
Here’s three posts that caught my attention this evening: Viv McWaters talking about compassion and bravery in facilitation Johnnie Moore on Chris Rodger’s ideas about leadership as an emergent and quite ordinary process And FacilitatorU on the need for confusion as a prerequisite for paradigm shifts
There are aspects of meetings I’ve always just accepted. There are other aspects I’ve always been uneasy about, but gone along with. Hmmm, probably not the kind of thing one should admit to on the internet. Over the last year or so I’ve had the opportunity and the catalysts to challenge that acceptance and ‘going […]
Here’s a couple of quick links to recent posts with some useful ideas and resources: From Gillian at You Learn Something New Every Day, a compilation of posts on Making Meetings Meaningful. There’s a lot of stuff here I would never have got to without it being pulled together like this. And secondly some nice […]
In case you (very sensibly) spent less time reading blogs over the festive season, here’s a quick catch up with a few gems that were posted recently…. First the usual suspects: Chris Johnston’s Shepherd and Flock offers a critical analysis of the relationship between campaigning NGOs and their grassroots networks. Here’s a taste: The bottom […]
