Scaffolding a place in which to collaborate
This article comes from a case study of working with the faculty in an academic institution over the summer of 2017, to help shape a manual to embed shared principles. This work…
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A foresight workshop from the archives.…
Here are some fieldnotes from a fun museum of the future moment from 2012. ...by then Wendy Schultz and I had been working and researching together for 7 or 8 years. We…
What does the word collaboration mean to you? How do you inhabit it? Privately, and together with other people. This blog talks about remaking what we mean when we say collaboration. #collaboration #remotelyhuman #storiesinwords…
Why do people spend more on flowers than on celebrants for a funeral? As I get further along in my training as a funeral celebrant, and explore grief, ceremony and endings both…
Grouding meetings that are happening in the ether. Making a meeting into a meeting place. As the host, encouraging a meeting to be a place which makes space for emerging relationships.…
How can we work with all of our faculties, adding sound to vision and the spoken and written word, deprivileging (body) language and visual cues, as ways to tune in to people and organisations at the deepest level?…
How do you lead (at every level of leading) a collaborative workplace in which power is widely distributed, and which is both productive and profound in the way it honours, encourages and demands interdependence and relationship as the vital energy of the organisation?…
An active hosting presence is vital in collaborative workspaces, even if it's a quiet background presence. Attention to the edges of the space and the thresholds into and out of spaces can help configure a collaborative workspace.…
Here's an article that appeared in the National Storytelling Network's Storyteller magazine in the autum of 2019.…
These notes come from a conference about ‘Mindful Change in Times of Permanent Reorganization’ held in Germany in 2012.…
The LEF report 'Reconfiguring the collaborative workspace: making the most of time, space and attitude' is now published.…
Picked from work and projects since 1 November 1997. Last updated December 2019. Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC). Five year partnerships to explore storytelling as a vehicle for the transfer…
A handful of heuristics for your consideration…
This article comes from a case study of working with the faculty in an academic institution over the summer of 2017, to help shape a manual to embed shared principles. This work…
Notes from a conversation with Lisa Hirsch about cultural assessment. First published in 2013. I first met Lisa in 2006 in at the International Storytelling Centre in Tennessee. I treasure her handout…