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Does “Being Professional” Evolve Your Audience?
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. –Arnold Toynbee– A close friend and I once attended something called The MillPond Festival in Bishop, California, that featured a...
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Are You Too Smart for Your Own Good?
I still attend workshops, seminars, and speaking engagements where the presenter seems compelled to talk at the audience. Though I do believe they’re expressing a sincere desire to teach, enlighten,...
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6 Tips For Speakers to Better Engage Their Audience
Like most people, I was never able to draw very well…just stick figures and scribbles. Then in my 20’s, I picked up a brilliant book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It very simply taught...
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Five Ways to Facilitate Group Conversations
Have you ever felt ‘stuck’ in a conversation with three or more people that just wasn’t going anywhere? People are droning on and on about this and that, leaving you bored and wishing you could just...
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Raising PowerPoint From The Dead
I know from experience that you can generate a lot of slides with a lot of info very quickly using PowerPoint. Most presenters go nuts with this tendency thinking that lots of information will make...
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Be Your Material
Once long ago, when asked by a reporter if he had a message he wanted the world to hear, Gandhi replied, My life is my message. Whether we like it or not, this statement is just as true for you and me...
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Set and Setting
In the 1960’s, Timothy Leary coined the term “set and setting” referring to a context that influenced the outcomes of psychoactive and psychedelic drug experiments on his subjects. “Set” refers to...
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Awakening Service as a Facilitator
Preparing yourself to do this work before it happens however, can be overlooked in light of all that goes into preparing content and processes. Spending just a few minutes prior to going into a group...
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Is Charismatic Leadership Good for Groups?
Clearly we’re all drawn to charismatic leaders. Whether we’re talking about political leaders like JFK, public speakers like Zig Ziglar, or trainers like Anthony Robbins, how does the charisma or...
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Revisit Your Roots
As life long learners, our field can get pretty complicated with all the models, strategies, philosophies, and approaches within which we tend to immerse ourselves. Considering this, it’s probably a...
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