September 4, 2014
Financial Times journalist Jo Ellison in an article entitled Fear and Clothing reviews two books which argue the case for why clothes and fashion matter. Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton began with a survey of over 600 people about their relationship with clothes. Worn Stories by Emily Spivack describes the emotional…
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…
August 4, 2011
More than ever these days we need help figuring things out – what will we do next? How have we got ourselves into this situation? What are the options? What do people think of us? Facilitating conversations is what I do and I’m used to being with groups of people…
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…
April 18, 2011
I do a lot of work with boards of directors and management committees wanting to take time out to review where they are and where they are going. Sometimes this involves organising and facilitating “retreats” (I use that word advisedly because in Ireland ‘retreat’ has religious connotations!). But I digress..…
April 12, 2011
How much responsibility does a facilitator take on for what happens in a room with a group with whom he or she is working? This is something I think about quite a bit depending on the kind of relationship, the longevity of it and what the task in hand is.…
Perhaps, according to an innovative study that tested the role of story telling in lowering blood pressure. Dr. Thomas Houston, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Bedford VA Medical Center, led a group of scientists that investigated how pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients talking about their medical…
January 19, 2011
I’m re-posting my 10 rules for dynamic participation in response to requests received via email. (I’ll make this available as a pdf download as soon as I can – now available here). I have created a process called dynamic participation as a methodology for consulting and facilitating. increasingly we live…
