Recent Comments
Tag Archives: johnnie moore
My life as a muppet (or “Proust reference by some faker who hasn’t even read it yet”)
About 10 years ago, I was on some union training. The leader had us play a game where she dished out a load of cards to different members of the group. One each card was a small part of a … Continue reading
When will we ever learn? Erm, *outside* the “lecture”
This excellent video (hat-tip to the brilliant Johnnie Moore) ought to kill off the “sage-on-the-stage” “ego-fodder” model of events good and dead. But of course it won’t (I’ve already speculated here and here as to why).
Groups, teams, mates – a must-read post
We regular bloggers (cough cough) tend to find/be found by other people with similar interests/obsessions. And once y ou’ve found a couple, they have a couple of recommendations… It was Johnnie Moore who introduced me to Robert Paterson. And I … Continue reading
Posted in activism
Tagged johnnie moore, meetings, movement-building, Rob Paterson, social movements, teams
1 Comment
Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance
Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance… If we are capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things happen to us. One, we free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and, … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge
Tagged carlos castaneda, Cognitive Humility, egomanias, egos, hubris, johnnie moore, Viv McWaters
Leave a comment
Youtube: The problem solution ratio
Apols for second post today, but want to share latest video… It’s on why we get stuck on describing problems in great detail rather than thinking up (and getting to work on implementing) solutions, all in 2 and a half … Continue reading
Posted in activism
Tagged johnnie moore, movement-building, problem-solution ratio, social movements, youtubes
3 Comments
Blind faith in blind leaders – blame the savannah?
Two crucial pieces of reading Chris Mooney’s “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science” is great on the ‘motivated cognition’ we all use to protect our world view (and our view of ourselves as people who don’t distort our … Continue reading
Less can be more for “change agents”
Reading around on ‘shadow organisations’, I stumbled across an essay by a consultant called Bill Critchley entitled “The Role of the Change Agent. [pdf]” This bit struck my eye Self-Organisation and Emergence Before I understood a little about complexity theory, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence
Tagged chris corrigan, johnnie moore, meetings, participation, smugosphere, Viv McWaters
3 Comments
On the Beach with Johnnie and Viv
Attention Conservation Notice: Me burbling about how cool Viv McWaters and Johnnie Moore are. Links to interesting books and ideas. Thanks to the Internet we can now all have shallow and deep and somewhere-in-between relationships with people we never meet … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, competence
Tagged facilitation, friends, johnnie moore, Viv McWaters
1 Comment
The Dark Side of Flipcharts
I blogged (well, alright, ranted) on flip charts a while back, and how they can be used to control and funnel energy and intentions and set up barriers between what the facilitators want and expect and are happy with versus … Continue reading
Posted in humour, internet culture
Tagged chris corrigan, Darth Vader, facilitation, flip charts, johnnie moore, meetings, Star Wars
1 Comment
Shout out to the “Art of Hosting”
Johnnie Moore sends me to interesting places on the Tinterwebs. One of them recently was to a Chris Corrigan post, which led on (as these things so often do) to “The Art of Hosting.” What’s that? That’s pretty cool-sounding, is … Continue reading
Posted in activism, bureaucracy, competence
Tagged art of hosting, berkana, chris corrigan, johnnie moore, movement-building, social movements
5 Comments
dwighttowers.wordpress.com 