by TMGadmin | Nov 26, 2016 | Board of Directors, Corporate Retreats, Executive Director, Meeting Facilitation, Nonprofit, Sustainability, Team Building, Teams, Uncategorized
Dialogue is cool. In fact, meetings in general are cool. Meetings are SO COOL that I can definitively state: Meetings constitute humanity’s only hope for survival. What? How can this be? Meetings are just people joined together in conversation with shared...
by David | Sep 27, 2016 | Corporate Retreats, Meeting Facilitation, Personal Growth, Team Building, Teams
Beware the Jubjub Bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch! Whoops, that isn’t the right poem… hold on…. Ooooh yeah: “I speak for the Trees, for the Trees have no tongue!!” That’s more like it… Yes Superheroes, it’s...
by David | May 10, 2016 | Corporate Retreats, Meeting Facilitation, Team Building, Teams
Greetings Superheroes! I’m a big fan of winter storms, the kind where huge grandmother fir trees bend and wail in the wind, and frozen rain gleefully descends to greet me.I’m a big fan of storm waves and fallow fields and the blind invertebrates...
by David | Apr 23, 2016 | Board of Directors, Corporate Retreats, Executive Director, Meeting Facilitation, Nonprofit, Sustainability, Team Building, Teams, Uncategorized
The principles within Stoicism are relevant and practical for leaders, managers, teams, and entrepreneurs of all kinds. Why? Stoics focus on answering two questions: How can we lead a fulfilling life? How can we become better human beings? Stoics seek to attain...
by David | Feb 20, 2016 | Board of Directors, Corporate Retreats, Executive Director, Meeting Facilitation, Nonprofit, Sustainability, Team Building, Teams, Uncategorized
I found this article on Beth’s Blog to be quite useful. Notice how Beth uses language which is “at the membrane” between technical prowess and ease-of-usability. She brings home important and delicate lessons, such as the benefits of using social...
by David | Jan 7, 2016 | Board of Directors, Corporate Retreats, Executive Director, Meeting Facilitation, Nonprofit, Sustainability, Team Building, Teams, Uncategorized
Considering membranes. You have one. I have one. And, like the permaculture principle, the most action/energy occurs at the edges. When we are stretched. As our membranes get thinner, they become more transparent. More information passes through. The ideal...