(even if your parents, trainers, teachers, and yoga instructors keep saying so) The present short piece is about practice and the idea that practice is all that counts. 1 Everybody seems to be into this. Teachers. Managers, Coaches. Educators. Parents. Yoga instructors. Everyone keeps telling us to practice, practice, practice. …

how car ownership is one of the great killers of our time My family and I have been living in Singapore for a good while now — with the day of our arrival still close enough for us to remember the profound relief we felt when we realized that, finally…

or: how to be an invisible facilitator — 1 There is Yoshi Oida, the incomparable teacher of Noh and Kabuki theatre and erstwhile collaborator of Peter Brook, who taught me to keep focusing on the framework, format, structure, choreography even, of the activity I am offering to the participants in my workshops — and not on the content. As…

f-activities for facilitators of exformative cooperative learning with groups f-activities is a series of activities for facilitators of exformative cooperative learning with groups. exformation is a process where participants create learning value by experiencing the unknown. among the many things I learned from Yoshi Oida is that the format is…

a short note on the 50th anniversary of the iconic Kim Phuc Phan Thi photo This is going to be a short piece. But it must be. Kim Phúc was just a few years younger than I was, on that fateful day, June 8, 1972. I do not remember that…

activities for facilitators of exformative cooperative learning with groups f-activities is a series of activities for facilitators of exformative cooperative learning with groups. exformation is a process where participants create learning value by experiencing the unknown. among the many things I learned from Yoshi Oida is that the format…

a continuation of twenty-five years of fun with bruce mau — the first 11 points I have always taken great pleasure in looking over hedges, crossing bridges, and venturing into fields different from those that people tell me “are mine.” This is how it came to be, for instance, that…

(Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Charlotte Moorman, John Cage, and friends) — I know. I have always been somewhat non-conventional. I plead guilty. I am often away on a sidetrack, scouting, and sometimes happily losing my way on unknown grounds, while everyone is still on the main road. And yes, I do tend to side with unpopular viewpoints and unwelcome opinions. The…

activities for facilitators of exformative cooperative learning with groups f-activities is a series of activities for facilitators of exformative cooperative learning with groups. exformation is a process where participants create learning value by experiencing the unknown. among the many things I learned from Yoshi Oida is that the format is…