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Commenting on a Pulse by Ruben van der Laan, it occurred to me, there is a distinction between being in a meeting and having a meeting. In every meeting you attend, you’re having both: you’re having a meeting and are … Continue reading →

Off course I’m hard to follow. That’s why I’m making a mess of my blogs. For instance, this one is here, on one of my other sites: Faciliteren als Tweede Beroep. I did add a few suggestions.

Last Friday, at a meeting of facilitators called Facilitator INNovation, I introduced a new approach I’m developing for – amongst others – an intake. The approach is based on using LEGO(tm) figures in a constellation, arrangement or system, mixing it … Continue reading →

This week, I’ve visited Spilter for a training / demo of their “hybrid brainstorming” tool, computer supported brainstorming, with printing of ideas. I’ve been using this kind of “hybrid” – I don’t like the word, I prefer “blended” – brainstorming … Continue reading →

Expressing paradoxes. In this post, I hope to explain how Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty First Century is also the expression of the paradoxes of “Speaking” of “Expressing”. Paradoxes as emergent phenomena In “Paradoxes of Group Life”, Smith and … Continue reading →

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Derek Cabrera and others have introduced a way of explaining Systems Thinking based on DRSP: Distinction, Relationships, System and Perspective. I do not disagree, but like to put things into perspective. As I see it, it is the other way … Continue reading →

“Het is paradoxaal: “je kunt niet geen lichaamshouding hebben”. Met andere woorden, het lichaam “maakt” een houding; die lichaamshouding refereert (let op het gebruik van refereren: hermaken) ook altijd naar jezelf. Er ontstaat een feedback loop, waarbij je lichaamshouding met … Continue reading →

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