The idea of a tragedy of the commons is deeply rooted. It suggests that any communal resource will ultimately be depleted by the selfish actions

During our recent Unhurried Leadership workshop, we picked images from Viv’s collection of street art to represent our ideas about leadership. In this image we

A lot of the challenge of working with groups is dealing with the powerful emotions that are triggered when people work together. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s

Jonah Sachs is the author of Unsafe Thinking. You can hear him talking at the RSA earlier this year. He looks at people and organisations that have found

In her post Stop Overplanning, Maria Popova explores the wisdom of uncertainty. It’s easy to create big goals and detailed to-do lists as a way to

“I have wasted time, and now doth time waste me” – Richard II One of the most common reasons people give for using a facilitator

Our friend Roland Harwood likes to talk about the paradox of “engineering serendipity,” creating opportunities for unexpected encounters. In designing events, it’s easy to fixate on the engineering,

Tidy processes often fail. Here’s why… The Process of Design Squiggle (by Damien Newman, thedesignsquiggle.com) is a celebration of the fact creativity is not an ordered and

We’ve been reading Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit. It looks at how much of our behaviour is automatic and why habits are hard to