Johnnie Moore’s Substack
Stories about working with people and finding real emotional connection
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practice and experiential learning (opens the original)
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This video shares my recent experience hosting a workshop for facilitators.A session on the second day captures how I focus on practice, rather than techniques. In practice, you bring your attention to what is happening which means you too may experience uncertainty. In contrast, a technique is more like something you do expecting a certain result.I also talk about my preference for experiential learning rather than teaching. If you create interesting and engaging experiences, you can allow peop
What else is possible here? (opens the original)
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I’m hosting again in Cambridge next April. This is a little announcement video, with a little footage taken from this year’s workshop.I've come to believe that when everyone's attention seems to be under constant challenge, the ability to give people careful attention is going to become a kind of master skill. When we do this, all sorts of creative things become possible. This is theme that runs through my work as a facilitator. And it’s what this workshop will be exploring.
Power, love and “cheap tricks” (opens the original)
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There’s a great line in the first Lord of the Rings movie where Gandalf assumes great power but then shifts status to create relationship. This gets me thinking about how how we might all use some of that skill to create a bit of magic of our own…
arriving without luggage (opens the original)
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I remember, long ago, a colleague arriving for a workshop with a suitcase full of equipment. But I’ve been wondering about the potential of showing up with nothing - so that we really bring our focus into what’s happening live in front of us.
Ghost lights... (opens the original)
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In a darkened theatre, the experience of being alone in the ghost light creates a sense of excitement and possibility. I feel that when I start working live in front of a group. There’s something relational that happens in the moment, where I feel alive to possibilities in a way that doesn’t happen in a planning process. I feel this is connected to what it really means to ‘read the room’.
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