Being Flexible and Adaptable One of the tools I use when facilitating and training, is improvisation, or more accurately, the practices of improv. Robert Poynton, a friend, and collaborator, in his great books (Everything’s an Offer and Do Improv) succinctly précis these practices into six words. Let Go Notice More Use Everything With the [...]
The Speed of the mind I often go walking on Hampstead Heath I find it meditative and that my best ideas and musings come from being out in the open under a big sky. My mind slows of all the buzzing allowing interesting thoughts to emerge I sometimes walk to the shops at South [...]
Unfurling the Unconscious Unfurling the Unconscious was a delightful adventure of the senses that Kay Scorah and I ran at another Lab Experiment afternoon. The group created stories provoked by being exposed to different stimuli including touch, taste, sound, smell and imagery. All but the Picture - sight group were blindfolded. [...]
Boring Case Study or Engaging Case Story? I go to a wonderful thing organised by Steve Chapman www.canscorpionssmoke.co.uk called the Lab, which let’s entrepreneurs experiment with new ideas for exercises. In March I ran a storytelling exercise called Points of View where, in groups of 4, one person told a true story about a [...]
Stories We Tell Ourselves "The stories that we tell ourselves, whether they be false or true, are always real." This set me thinking. Those stories are real and sometimes that reality needs to be re-framed. Easier said than done
