Bodystorming rocks
26 August 2011I had a chance to use bodystorming with a group this week. Bodystorming is like brainstorming on steroids – or, in other words, it recognises that we bring more than just our brains to problem solving sessions. Bodystorming involves some traditional brainstorming with three key differences that I think make all the difference. The first…
Exploring the Edges of Work II
18 August 2011Anyone visiting recently will probably know that I’m exploring the edges of work – offering a series of short workshops to explore how we might move beyond the rigidity of existing systems and processes to open up workplace creativity, innovation and agility – especially when the currency of much of today’s work is ideas. So…
The world is full of talented people!
9 August 2011Here’s just two examples. I love this video from Mr Simon Taylor about language. Brilliant. And then there’s this one by Rick Mereki. I want to know how he did it.
Exploring the edges of the way we work
4 August 2011I’ve started a little research project to explore the edges of how we work. When facilitating workshops with many different groups and organisations, there is sometimes a disconnect between what people want to do and how it is expected to be done. Approaches that were once just fine are now struggling in the face of…
The power of connections
17 June 2011I spent the weekend at Gathering11, with 100+ other people. I found myself at Gathering11 because of connections, generosity and curiosity. I’ve come away with yet more connections, ideas, inspiration and dare I say, a good old dose of enthusiasm. It’s not often I have an opportunity to be a participant, to feel what it’s…
Fear, readiness and perseverence
18 April 2011I’m just back from 10 weeks on the road and am revelling in catching up with blogs, twitter, friends, email (not so much), book-keeping (not at all) and being surrounded by the familiar. This from Euan Semple: The pressure on us, both from ourselves and others, to take the easy route, give in to our…
5 minutes
19 December 2010Luckily I have many of memorable moments captured in pictures. In 5 minutes, here’s the pics that I’d save to help me remember 2010. My friend Vera says January 2nd is the worst possible day to have a birthday. She says everyone is all partied out by then. We celebrated her 50th birthday at Pettaval.…
Party
10 December 2010If yesterday’s prompt was hard, this one is a no-brainer. What social gathering rocked my socks off in 2010? I’ve mentioned The Slips before, here. We had just completed a few days work together. It was our final evening as a whole group staying in an apartment in the city. We’d been out to dinner each…
Beautifully different
8 December 2010Yikes. Today’s prompt is hard. I was watching a repeat (I nearly wrote ‘rerun’ – a very American term. Caught myself just in time to use the proper Aussie vernacular) of Modern Family. Mitchell was talking to Manny about being different at school and the yearning to blend in. Then when you grow up, you…
Community
7 December 2010It is in discovering community that I feel most fortunate, most blessed, most thankful. In general, my community has flourished on-line, and in particular there has been a small, close-knit community that I really cherish. We call ourselves The Slips – a nod to cricket, the only thing we could discover, apart from all coming…