I've been noticing that I haven't moved as much towards my biggest goals as I would like at the moment. Instead of berating myself and pushing harder, I've realised I need to cut myself some slack.
While it may seem that I am in the valley between "back then" and "what happens next,"storytellers k...
I really enjoy being in conversation with other practitioners and hearing what's going on in other parts of the world. This week I was on the monthly Art of Hosting auf Deutsch Stammtisch call -- a time when German speakers get together to share news and insights. (And yes, I was speaking German, I ...
What is it that we can do together that none of us can do alone?
The more I look at how people are acting in the world, the more I can see the value we've created around knowing.
We want to know how things work. We want to know the perfect answer. We want to know the gossip. We want to know the truth. We want to know we are right. We want to know we have been s...
Here's my interview with Myriam Hadnes, whose "Workshops.Work" podcast beams online out of the Netherlands. Listen to the interview here.
She writes:
"The Art of Hosting is a beautiful embodiment of many of the features of facilitation, combined with its own set of unique approaches and concepts. ...
Where once I felt like a voice at the rim calling for more attention on the relational field, the more we move online the more it becomes obvious that relationship is at the heart of transformation. In fact, that might be the most important thing I learned joining Civil Defense all those years ago i...
Last week I was in Moscow at the 10th Russian Faciliators Conference as one of the international guests. Although I never dreamed I would stand in Red Square, I had a fabulous time of teaching and learning in a field hungry for tools, techniques and ways to touch the heart.
In our planning, I talke...
Here is Part 3 of my new book chapter on the six perspectives and three waves of story. Find Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.
Story as a Resonance Tuner & as the Art of Practicing Humanity
In these days of social media likes, fake news and alternative facts, it’s easy to see that influence and how t...