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Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Satisfying wants and what Abraham Maslow called growth needs are core goals of any event. But whose wants and needs are we talking about ? As far as attendee wants and needs are concerned, organizers usually believe that they know what they are, and they delegate satisfying them to a small group that creates the conference program.
Conferences that Work
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
After a four-year gap due to the COVID pandemic, we eagerly returned to Anguilla for a two-week vacation. We love this tiny Caribbean island and have taken a welcome break from Vermont winter for fifteen years. The villa where we’d stayed previously was up for sale, so we looked for another place to stay.
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Conferences that Work
APRIL 22, 2024
Even if you weren’t in the path of totality—at my home we were at 96%—it was an awesome experience. If we are open to them. Then a moment came when my inner scientist moved into consciousness and asked: “What is going on?” If you saw the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, you surely felt an experience of awe.
Conferences that Work
OCTOBER 16, 2023
While facilitating, I try to remember that we are all different. Facilitation is necessarily imperfect What’s difficult, of course, is that participants differ in countless ways, most of which I don’t know. For others, what I say may be ineffective or even counterproductive. And we often notice valuable differences.
Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 4, 2023
We need to think bigger! Yes, friends, it’s now obvious that what our industry needs is… fake events! We are all impressed by those huge events that everyone who is everyone has to attend for FOMO. We may all be living in a simulation! We need to think bigger! For heaven’s sake! Lots of them!
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Having written about the intersection of power and status at meetings , I appreciate what professor of African American studies at Princeton University Ruha Benjamin shares in this 2019 video: “ The New Jim Code? Strive to live in your own imagination, not someone else’s. Let’s strive to live in our own imagination.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 8, 2024
As I wrote in 2010: “…when I was growing up my education emphasized thinking…However, the educational agenda allocated no time for understanding or expressing my feelings…All of us in school had feelings, of course, and they greatly affected how and what we did. Most of us are aware that we’re thinking most of the time.
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