Facilitation isn’t about holding the space. It’s about composting it.
Not performance. Not control. But creating conditions where old maps can soften, tools can decompose, and something unteachable can take root.
This is not metaphor. This is method.
And it begins by letting go.
A reflection sparked by a Substack post and its contradictory comment — this field note explores how public discourse, entangled in mastery and contradiction, might be composted instead of corrected. What if the real work now is not to win the argument, but to nourish a different way of knowing?
Read MoreAs the world is increasingly polarised, it feels impossible to change the mind of someone with a conflicting view. But this book shows that you could be one conversation away from changing someone’s mind about something, maybe a lot of things. — amazon.co.uk
Read MoreMeet the business anthropologists seeking to explain how we buy, sell, work and think.
From supermarkets to factories, trading floors to tech firms, their methods are revealing the hidden codes that define our lives.
The result is a wholly new way to see human behaviour: anthro-vision. — amazon.co.uk
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical – nothing but a collection of things for us to use? Are we ourselves nothing but the playthings of chance, embroiled in a war of all against all? Why, indeed, are we engaged in destroying everything that is valuable to us?
In his international bestseller, The Master and his Emissary, McGilchrist demonstrated that each brain hemisphere provides us with a radically different ‘take’ on the world, and used this insight to deliver a fresh understanding of the main turning points in the history of Western civilisation.
In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. — amazon.co.uk
