September 18, 2011
I will be facilitating this panel discussion on Tuesday as part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival in New York. We start at 6.30pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. I hope to see some of you there. A panel discussion focusing on the growth of a thriving theatre and cultural…
June 16, 2011
Here’s a wonderful archive of our presentation at the Melbourne Knowledge Management Group this week. Nicky Hawyard, using Storify has curated the text, photos and tweets to create a terrific session archive. I hadn’t heard of Storify before but now I’m compelled to use it. [View the story “Emotions in…
June 12, 2011
I’m currently en route to Australia and then on to New Zealand. First stop is Melbourne where I’m looking forward to meeting the Melbourne Knowledge Management Community on Wednesday when Ian Miller and I will be presenting some of our thinking on emotion at work at this event. If you’re…
I’m looking forward to my upcoming trip to Australia and New Zealand. While in Melbourne Ian Miller and I will be presenting a short seminar on emotion in the workplace with members of the Melbourne knowledge management community. It will take place on Wednesday 15 June between 6 and 8pm. …
January 20, 2011
“….the unconscious, the back-seat driver whispering to us to behave in ways we’d officially disown” This defence of psychoanalysis from Robert Rowland Smith is an impassioned plea for the value and relevance of psychoanalysis in everyday life. He takes on the CBT cause and suggests that in becoming ‘more scientific’…
January 28, 2009
So much of the art of facilitation is simply getting out of the way. The more I get out of my client’s way, the more they generate the content they really want heard. I’m sure there’s a mathematical formula or a two by two of some kind to quantify the…
September 27, 2008
There’s interesting discussion going on here and here and here about the Open Space model of facilitation. I’m not going to attempt to do justice to the various writers but Johnnie said something on this post about the role of facilitator that really caught my eye What’s more interesting –…
August 18, 2008
Can you fake being personal? In our rush to offer solutions to clients’ problems we often (too often in my opinion) eschew the personal and embrace the professional. We really don’t get the value of being “ourselves” because somewhere along the line we’ve learned that to be ourselves is to…
August 11, 2008
The most consistent web search that leads people to my blog is ‘the difference between listening and hearing’ and this piece originally posted in May 2007 is the most frequented on the blog. Looking through my stats for the past few months brings this to the top of the pile…
June 29, 2008
I’ve written about conductor, teacher, speaker and writer (The Art of Possibility) Benjamin Zander here before – and in this superb TED talk Zander outlines his philosophy of possibility in a passionate and witty presentation that had me smiling all the way through. Using a Chopin prelude (the one with…
