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By Chris Ortiz on Mar 19, 5:38 AM | Unpublish this post | 1 | 0 Comments
Chris Ortiz

From Telemarketing to Zen: The Evolution of a Facilitator

I've evolved to experimenting with a style in which the group is the facilitator and there is very little interaction between myself and the group at all. You might call it Zen facilitation.
By Ryan McCormick on Feb 3, 9:12 AM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 1 Comment
Ryan McCormick

Be more creative this year!

Want to be more creative in 2012? Well, here are twelve suggestions that you can start using right now to push your creative potential to the limit. I do caution you though, these suggestions may go against what you understand to be acceptable behavior. But, if you're serious about your next masterpiece than giddy up and get going! 1. Talk to yourself out loud and record it. My iPhone has become one of the most valuable creative tools I own. I can record in-the-moment thoughts, record voice memos, take photos and share thoughts from almost anywhere inspirations hits. 831466591_84988ea553_m.jpg2. Doodle when you're thinking. Doodling is grossly misunderstood and enormously powerful.
By Chris Ortiz on Apr 25, 8:30 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments
Chris Ortiz

Fear: Good, Bad or Ugly?

Part 3: Taming the Amygdala History Early in my career as a challenge course facilitator, I think I had a telemarketer's philosophy when facilitating on a challenge course. This was probably due to the fact that I was once told...
By Chris Ortiz on Mar 11, 5:07 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments
Chris Ortiz

Fear: Good, Bad or Ugly?

Part 2: Hijacking the Amygdala Background In Part 1 of this series, I gave some background as to how I came to be interested in fear and its connections with work on challenge courses. My next challenge will be...
By Chris Ortiz on Feb 22, 3:44 PM | Unpublish this post | 1 | 2 Comments
Chris Ortiz

FEAR: Good, Bad or Ugly?

Part 1: A Prelude to the Amygdala Several years ago I had a neurologist as a chaperone for participants in a challenge course experience I was facilitating. He and I talked at length about the experience and he started to share with me in simple terms how the body and mind processes fear. I was fascinated. As he described the process of our brains "hijacking" our bodies until the brain decides if we really should be scared, I immediately saw direct connections between the ways we facilitate challenge course experiences and what was happening inside the brain and body of our participants. I had to know more.
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