Viv and I have just recorded our first conversation about Winkipod … our joint podcasting blog. Click here to listen and read. Some great surf photos taken by Viv at Bells Bowl accompany the podcast … listen to find out why surfing has anything to do with our podcasts! Geoff

Here’s a collection of stuff from other bloggers that I want to share: 1. Peter @ The Centre for Graphic Facilitation – A great review of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. I have just finished Dan Pink’s other book ‘A Whole New Mind’ and highly recommend it (see the link on my bookshelf at the bottom of the right column).  2. TEDTalks is one of my favorite learning spaces and they have just passed “50 million” hits … to celebrate they have released a best of the best video featuring Al Gore, Sir Ken Robinson and others. I have written about …

Thanks to my sister (Janette Derrick), I discovered the remarkable artistic work of Chris Jordon. I regularly use Chris’ provacative images when facilitating behaviour change workshops. I use these visual images to tap into participant’s emotions and to shine a light on the ludicrous excesses of our modern lifestyle.  Note: It is also important to shift the conversation away from the problem once the images have been presented. I use an approach called Solutions Focus and switch from problems to the benefits (as if the problems were solved) … then future perfect (the ideal future scenario) … then small steps/actions …

Here’s a sustainability solution! (hat tip to Guy Kawasaki) With 3 young boys in our house, our clothes get grubby, dirty and covered in food all day, everyday! Here’s a revolutionary new system to wash clothes … a virtually waterless washing machine! With our place about to switch to water tanks … I want to rent one! Rent a washing machine? Yep! I think we need to move away from buying products that we can afford (features = inefficient and short lived) and lease or rent products that would be way too expensive to purchase (features = super efficient and …

I have facilitated 6 workshops since returning from Byron Bay. 5 moved forward to a place of possibility … 1 ended up where it started. Why?  5 focused on solutions not problems … participants expressed things visually rather than using language … conversations were about the future and didn’t dwell on the past 1 chose to tackle the problems … participants got stuck with words and sentences … the future was took hard to see through all the problems … it felt downward spiraling This picture sums it up for me … Geoff