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The greatest myth of creativity? It doesn't fall from the sky into our laps like Isaac Newton’s apple! Creativity is far from that romantic, eureka moment, but rather it is messy, cultivated, and curiosity made manifest.

Luckily for us, Amy Climer has created a system to go about finding this elusive, but valuable novelty with intention – consistently and at scale. A TEDx speaker, trainer and author of the book ‘Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results’, Amy’s work is a creative panacea for leaders, managers and facilitators in search of better ideas.

From positive feedback fertilisers, to creative learnings from Thomas Edison, she shares her process and the ingredients you’ll need to succeed.

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• The three pillars of creative teams: purpose, dynamics and process
• Why conflict is a necessary means to recognise and embrace difference
• Why leaders must intentionally design for collaboration, or risk jeopardising the collective
• How to cultivate the internal team conditions to allow for creativity

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When you think of an intelligent person, who do you imagine? Perhaps they’re scholarly, quick-thinking, or possess a rare ability to seemingly know all that there is to know.

But intelligence is infinitely more than this! As Daniel Susser teaches us this week, intelligence is greater than the sum of our cognitive parts: it is bodily, inter-connected and contextual. It is a tapestry of inherited, micro influences that makes us each see the macro world in different ways.

So if intelligence is collective, how can leaders unlock it from the organisational organism? Daniel shares all in this fascinating, wordly conversation that dances so beautifully between science, religion and ritual.

It will stretch your thinking and leave you with a whole host of practical tips to extract, celebrate and journey into the intelligence of your organisation!

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• What it means to be an Intelligent Team - and how we can create them
• Why organisations must reject their implicit assumptions about what ‘intelligence’ means
• What macrocognition means in organisations
• Introducing organisational rituals for collaboration, belonging and shared purpose
• How leaders can identify imbalances in their organisations using opponent processing

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find out how to work with Daniel embodiedagility.co.uk

Read more about intelligent teams intelligentteams.substack.com

A good starting point is this blog https://intelligentteams.substack.com/p/the-intelligent-teams-manifesto

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For every word we swallow, every moment we dilute ourselves, and every time we say ‘yes’ when really, we want to say ‘no’, we collect a pebble into our backpack of life.

The fantastic duo that is Pete Jordan and Tuulia Syvänen from Honesty Europe join us this week to help us offload these pebbles: showing us the way to live lightly, freely, and in a radical act of resistance, to be ourselves! We explore honesty as a practice of presence, we dig at the roots of interpersonal triggers, and most important of all - we learn how to ask for what we want, when we’ve been conditioned not to - even if it means dancing in the face of rejection.

If you’re a chronic people pleaser perpetually in search of the peace, this conversation is for you!

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• Learning to ask people to meet our needs - whether the answer is yes, or no
• The act of expressing suppressed emotions, to clear space for deeper connection
• How to tune into bodily sensations and remain present, during vulnerable interactions or boundary setting
• Why a little discomfort is the price we must pay to be true to ourselves
• How to acknowledge personal judgements in a way that diffuses their power

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What does facilitation have in common with quantum physics? What do organisations have to do with molecules? And why when you ask a question, are you playing around with someone’s mind?

All will be revealed this week with Jimmie White! A seven-times best-selling author, an indomitable facilitator that has trained The Peace Corps and supported NASA with somatic integration, and in a past life, a teacher of ballroom dancing.

It’s perhaps not surprising then, that Jimmie’s facilitation is alive with somatic movement, storytelling - and even neuroscience. It’s something Jimmie calls ‘Walking Your Story’: a physical navigating of group narratives, helping us to rewrite our stories, explore multiple outcomes, and bond with others in the steps we take.

Press play for an incredible, expansive conversation!

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• Jimmie’s ‘Walking Your Story’ method, and how it can foster deep reflection, transformation and connection
• The Observer Effect of Quantum Physics and what it means for facilitation
• How physical movement can change our relationship with past stories
• The methods of somatic storytelling and socratic thinking
• The importance of fostering psychological safety in personal storytelling

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"Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats" by Ken Nelson, Lesli Lang, David Ronka, Korabek-Emerson and Jim White

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Sometimes, just sometimes, you meet someone who is a balm to the soul, who speak words of wisdom, magic, and nurturing depth. Quanita Roberson has this gift - and she returns to the show to share it with us once again!

Mingling spiritual intelligence with raw human experience, Quanita guides us generously through the messy yet beautiful terrain of healing, as we trace emotions back to their source and learn how to step away from adolescent adulthood.

She brings us into the heart of questions like: how do we grieve? What does courage really mean? And why do people find it easier to talk about gender than race?

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• Why shame, blame and guilt are not emotions, but rather where we go to hide from them
• The initiations of our life, and why we must embrace crumbling to make space for the new
• The importance of going inwards to find our wisdom to help the world
• Why there aren’t different ways to grieve, but rather different ways to avoid it
• The importance of embodying our emotions, allowing them to move through us

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A pair of flimsy plastic headphones, a voice in your ears bombarding you with dates, names and historical periods, and a momentary pause at each work of art as you side-step the seemingly disinterested guided tour.

If this sounds familiar, then museum facilitator and author Claire Bown is here to bring the museum alive for you! She reimagines the experience by making space for curiosity, conversation and participant-led interaction, turning passive presentations and fleeting glances into a treasure trove of stories, deep connection and meaning.

Join Claire to slow down, welcome in a little more wondering, and discover what museum exploration can teach us about the art of participation.

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• The role of the museum environment in facilitating the experience
• Strategies for engagement, from visual thinking to slow looking
• Why we must give space for observation, before jumping into explanation
• How to achieve equal participation by re-designing group formation
• How to acknowledge and invite in existing knowledge from the group

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Can we explore the future as if it were an archaeological site? Instead of predicting trends or following hype cycles, future archaeologist Markus Iofcea uncovers artifacts - fragments of possible futures - that help us rethink what’s to come.

Future archaeologist, co-author of the book Zurück zur Zukunft, and all-round inspiring mind, Markus Iofcea, is here to tell us that yes, the future can be ours to create! He digs in the future to see what treasures he can find in its vast archeological site - except his artefacts aren’t the rare remnants of a civilisation gone-by, but rather inventions we are yet to make. Inventions that could change the world!

From there, he hypothesises his discoveries infinitely - helping organisations to philosophically explore contexts, variations and parameters to test if an innovation will work well beyond our current, limiting reality.

This was one of those rare, fascinating conversations that you won’t want to miss - thank you for setting my mind alight, Markus!

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• What future archaeology is and how Markus explores the possibilities of the future
• Future artefacts: what they are, how to dig them out, and how to innovate them
• The importance of removing an artefact from our current context to prepare for the unknown
• Why we must ‘dig’ at an innovation for as long as possible, interrogating its logical components
• How Markus helps the corporate world to excavate innovations, free from limitations and predictions

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Facilitation isn’t just about guiding a process—it’s about creating meaning. And in this episode, Jim Kalbach, author of The Jobs To Be Done: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs, shares how facilitation and Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) go hand in hand.

We dive into the art of moving from insight to action, exploring how facilitators and leaders can use JTBD to break through assumptions, foster collaboration, and design experiences that truly serve the people they’re meant for.

Jim shares his own journey—from journey mapping to facilitation—revealing how shifting the focus from solutions to human needs changes everything.

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• Why facilitation isn’t just about neutrality—it’s about shaping meaningful outcomes
• The power of customer journey maps as tools for conversation and sense-making
• How Jobs to Be Done helps teams focus on real human needs, not just solutions
• Why co-creation leads to better collaboration, alignment, and decision-making
• How to avoid “workshop amnesia” and keep momentum alive after a session
• Practical ways to embed customer-centric thinking into everyday work

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