Author: Deborah Hartmann Preuss

In this blog post I offer some of the resources I often share with colleagues who start to facilitate Open Space events. I suggest to start with the book...

For change agents with technical or expert backgrounds, this new feeling of "the empty toolkit" can be scary. And so we fake it. Problem solved - for the moment....

“Why am I blogging this drawing of my cat?” I asked myself, because somehow it seemed both odd and important. I have thought about it all week, and this...

This spring I decided to grow my new garden from *seed* for the first time! I read, and researched instructions for germinating lupins, petunias, sunflowers and geraniums. I finally...

I had two great, short phone calls with US colleagues last night. Hearing their voices (rather than reading their tweets) had an unexpected effect: I felt more "in community"...

Today’s serendipitous Twitter find was MOOCs! It all started with a tweet from @mdclement, followed by my question: what is a MOOC? A few clicks later, I knew I’d...

My explanation of this strange but fun method for finding out what is on your bookshelf! In April 2009, software tester James Marcus Bach and his brother James set...

It's tricky, this being-human business, isn't it? Perhaps that's why, when we go to work, we try to create a haven from complexity, breathing a sigh of relief in...

Today is World Stoos Day, and I’m reading Twitter tag #stoos, while waiting for folks to return to the live broadcast after supper at @StoosConnect in Amsterdam. Live video...

I have been a community change agent for as long as I can remember. I gathered the local kids to put on plays, created little clubs, and put the...

My paper What is Co-Active Coaching?" covers the whole Co-Active model to show how its power comes from a synergy of some simple (but not easy!) principles and tools....

Curious about the AgileCoachCamp format? These days my most favourite events are all rather informal, along the lines of BarCamps; Open Space, and other UnConferences. They all use some...