May 24, 2006

Being "available"

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Annette Clancy joins Lisa Haneberg in bemoaning the practice of taking mobile phone calls in the middle of conversations with real people.Sometimes our sense of self is reliant on external sources. Being “available” is one way of feeling better... ›››

Category: Facilitation

May 21, 2006

Improv to Performance

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

I'm joining a few friends in putting together a series of workshops leading on to a live Improv show. The workshops will be on Tuesday evenings in central London, starting on May 30th. Those going to the workshops will... ›››

Category: Facilitation | improv | performance | workshops

May 16, 2006

Catching up

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

I've been busy lately (hence rather few posts). At the start of the month, I was over in the US helping Rob Paterson, facilitating an Open Space conference for NPR. It was great to meet Rob in the real... ›››

Category: Facilitation

May 14, 2006

The Fetish of Change - chewing it over

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

My post responding to Christopher Grey's polemic The Fetish of Change has provoked some great reflections by other bloggers. I really appreciate the way blogging allows us to chew over essays this way. Mike Dewitt really enjoys Grey's thinking,... ›››

Category: Creativity | Facilitation | change management | complexity

May 08, 2006

The fetish of change

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

"In today's increasingly competitive business environment..." Do you sometimes find this piece of copy a bit wearisome? I know I do. So, I suspect, does Tom Coates, judging by a piece he wrote recently about changes at the BBC:... ›››

Category: Facilitation

April 20, 2006

Anger

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Over at the wiki for Reboot, (a great conference planned for June in Copenhagen) they're inviting participants to say who they'd most like to see at the conference. I'm not suprised to see that Top of the Pops at... ›››

Category: Facilitation

Jeff Risley recommends the podcasts

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Jeff Risley recommends the podcasts of Alan Watts. So do I. I've just listened to the first of four on the theme "Limits of Language". I think we easily lose sight of how our language shapes our world, and... ›››

Category: Facilitation | alan watts

April 18, 2006

Facilitation as a leadership style

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Steve Davis (in his regular newsletter) has been thinking about Facilitation as a leadership style and brings up a table created by Richard Weaver & John Farrell in their book, Managers as Facilitators. I've pulled out a few rows... ›››

Category: Facilitation | leadership | leadership styles

April 17, 2006

Security and insecurity

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

I thought this line from Annette Clancy's recent post was rather brilliant.The primary challenge to those of us involved in assisting organisations to strategise is the co-creation of a secure enough environment in which to envision a future that... ›››

Category: Facilitation

Synchrony in meetings

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Kathy Sierra has been listening to Thomas Lewis, co-author of A General Theory of Love. I recommend her summary of some of his ideas; she's fastened on the same bits of his work as I did when I read... ›››

Category: Facilitation | neurobiology | synchrony | thomas lewis

April 13, 2006

Performing Improv

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

This week, I took part in an Improv performance here in London. I did this with eight other people. All of us did a series of six evening workshops playing improv games together and getting to know each other... ›››

Category: Facilitation

April 09, 2006

Do-it-yourself conference

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Marc Canter is fed up with the speaker list at the Supernova conference this summer and is planning an alternative:So I say lets just do our own conference, charge a total of zero dollars and zero cents and have... ›››

Category: Facilitation | reboot8 | unconference

April 04, 2006

Rebooting

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Reboot 7 was one of the best events I attended last year and I'm looking forward to Reboot8. I really like how they're describing the format.50% conference, 50% unconference Allthough we love the meme of unconferences it's not new... ›››

Category: Facilitation | unconference

March 27, 2006

Reflecting on facilitation

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

I enjoyed listening to Andrew Rixon's chat with Sandy Schuman. You can listen to the mp3 here. This part of the reflective practice on the language of facilitation. He's organising with my improv buddy, Viv McWaters. (I'm a participant... ›››

Category: Facilitation

Performing improv

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

For the last few weeks I've been doing a weekly improv workshop (as a participant) with a group of about 9 others, ably organised by Sprout. The good thing is that at the end, we get to put on... ›››

Category: Facilitation | improv | learning

March 26, 2006

Complexity and Disagreement

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

I've just flown over to the US for a few days, and I grabbed a copy of Roger Lewis' book on Complexity for the flight over. I enjoyed Lewis writing style which makes a sometimes bewildering subject accessible. It's... ›››

Category: Facilitation | complexity | neurobiology | patricia churchland | roger lewis

A bit more complexity

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Ok, here's another fascinating insight from Roger Lewis' book Complexity. Lewis reports on the work of Stuart Pimm and Jim Drake at the University of Tennessee, who experimented with computer models of ecological communities. As I understand it, these... ›››

March 24, 2006

Learning

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Chris Corrigan wrote about his experience of unschooling a few days ago, and his post still sticks in my mind. It raises a profound challenge to many conventional ideas about how we learn. Chris is home schooling his children... ›››

Category: Facilitation | autodidacticism | education | training

March 07, 2006

Risk or uncertainty

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

This is interesting: Results of an experiment in risk and uncertainty management. Short version: talking about risk narrows the amount of information you will gather; talking about uncertainty leads to richer (and more optimistic) conversations. My own spin is... ›››

Category: Facilitation

Quote for the day...

- Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Jeff Risley quotes Robert Fulghum in his book Maybe, maybe not:'I do not believe that the meaning of life is a puzzle to be solved. Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my... ›››

Category: Facilitation | meaning of life | philosphy | robert fulghum