Creatures of Habit

Towards the end of my workshops I ask people what collaborative habit they’d like to build.

It’s a helpful way to recap on the skills we’ve explored and practised. Checking in with them a few weeks later, and then a few months after that, helps to keep this skill front of mind.

Practice does make better.

How do you develop the habit of breaking a habit? I’m not talking how to stop a bad habit, like smoking. I mean getting into the habit of doing something differently.

🪑   Taking a different seat at the weekly meeting.

🪑   Not taking the same seat at the dinner table.

🧘‍♀️   Rolling your yoga mat out in the middle of the room, rather than your favourite corner.

🚶‍♀️   Walking to the station via a different route.

Taking a different perspective, every day. In just a small way.

Every morning, I snap a photo of something on the street as I make my way to yoga, training or a walk along the river. I seek out the ‘unexpected’ or take a photo of the ‘expected’ from a different angle. Like the one of the fire hose at the yoga studio at the top of this blog.

It’s a habit that forces me to observe, rather than just notice.

I’ll invite participants in my #Facilitography Walkshop to do the same. What can they do every day, to build the habit of seeing things differently, to help break the habit of always seeing things the same way?

Observation is vital to collaborate, facilitate and explore ideas. With it, you can read the room, a group, a situation.

Our smart phones make us all photographers. Perhaps they can help make us all better facilitators.

If you would like to learn more about how your smart phone can help you to facilitate, join me for my #Facilitography Walkshop in Sydney on 26 November (‘chapeau’ a Kirk Fisher for coining the word). We’ll take our smart phones into the street, explore new ways of seeing beyond the obvious, capture the unexpected and practice the subtle skills of facilitation.

Say YES below and I’ll send you an invitation.