Intriguing beauties: Jeff Altman has digitized his grandfather’s home movies: San Francisco, 1958. Johnnie Moore on social creativity. Metafilter post on the WKBW Buffalo 1968 War of the Worlds scare. Great stuff to curl up with this Hallowe’en! The New Scientist maps how small and connected our world has become. Geoff Brown with some fun=behaviour change videos. Going to be fun working with him on this! Rob Paterson blogs about KETC’s approach to the flu: a new model for conversational leadership in news. Alex Kjerulf bounces into the weekend.
Today John Inman had a great post on using the world cafe for a five hour strategic planning session with a non-profit. His process works as follows: First I asked that the whole system be in the retreat. We had board members, a customer, grant writer, community member, and contractors. 1. Introduction in group setting 2. Introduce the process 3. Pose the question 4. Three cafe tables with three people each, start the cafe 5. Three rounds of conversation each 20 minutes 6. Returned people to original table and asked them to capture the main themes at each table. 20 …
Finding What You Didn’t Lose When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, you are loved. When someone deeply listens to you, the room where you stay starts a new life and the place where you wrote your first poem begins to glow in your mind’s eye. It is as if gold has been discovered! When someone deeply listens to you, your bare …
A lovely paper by Mark McKergow from the UK which defines the art of hosting as a leadership practice: the essence is that the host creates space and is active within it. Download the paper here.
I’ve been using Dave Snowden’s conception of simple, chaotic, complicated and complex systems for a while. This video: How to organise a Children’s Party is a brilliant redux of these helpful distinctions.