This week when I popped into the grocery store I found a crowd got there before me. The lines were so long for the self check out that I joined one of the ordinary checkout lines.
We inched along and I finally saw why. The cashier was a much older man, but obviously new at the job. He was turnin...
At the beginning of November I was a guest at the Rotterdam Change Days. Started as the Berlin Change Days about 15 years ago, this event is now moving from place to place and also happening online.
This year's theme was "At Work in the Ruins," taken from the book of the same title by Dougald Hine,...
The World Café Kinship Gathering (Oct 20 - 24) was both an opportunity for a 30 years celebration and a potent reminder to me about the power of staying in practice. World Café is a methodology that has spread around the world. It appears simple and easy. Thousands have tried it.
And it is often d...
On Monday night during our second session of BEYOND FACILITATION, Maria Scordialos told two stories of working at the edge between chaos and chamos.
Chaos is something we all think we know about. But the deeper sense of this Greek word points to the new potential that arises when a fertile disturba...
I've had some good reminders of small, but really important practices to take note of during my last month on the road, which included a one day workshop and two three day trainings. Here they are:
INVITATION AS A LEADERSHIP TOOL
In September I hosted the third Art of Powerful Questions for IKEA i...
At the end of May I was in Budapest stewarding an Art of Hosting training. Hungary is a place like many others. Control is rising. Activists and community workers are feeling despondent, desperate for resources and under threat. We don't know how much longer we can bring participatory practice.
S...
The "Am Ende ist alles Gut" podcast with Mareike Tiede
Where are your places of practice? Who is your community?
Back in 2008 I was part of a conference hosting team in Takayama, Japan. We were invited by the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), the forerunner of the International Association of Facilitators, to host the different parts of the then UN ...
Here's Part 2 to my report on Malcom Gladwell's book "Revenge of the Tipping Point."
This is what most of us think of as a "superspreader" -- someone who is sneezing loudly in a public place. Recently I heard one parent talk about their kindergarten aged kids as "germ factories." 🤢
But, and only...
A very interesting read for times like these.
Last week I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell's 25 year update to his bestselling The Tipping Point. The subtitle for this volume is "Overstories, Superspreaders and the rise of social engineering." And yes, you should be paying attention to all of ...
How do you stay the course?
This past week I've had many interesting conversations with people all over the globe. In a call with a practitioner friend today, she admitted to me that she regularly wakes up in the night with anxiety and a racing mind. She told me about a term I wasn't familiar with ...