In all the excitement, I had forgotten Andrew Rixon's new(ish) Babel Fish blog. Andrew talks about facilitation patterns, improvisation & also juggling. And also a link to this post by Viv McWaters about facilitation as improv.
When I started posting about brainstorming, I was viewing it through the lens of improv - though I don't think that came across in the early posts.
Reflecting for a moment, improv is all about co-creating a complex situation. A complex system is where the participants constantly connect with and influence each other. That's what makes it impossible to predict what will happen next. The lack of a script or fixed roles increases the opportunities for contact & influence. And the "rules" of improv (which are more like rules if you are not experienced and more like patterns if you are*) aim to further increase the opportunities for contact, feedback loops & mutation. When improv is done well, you are watching an emergent complex social system unfold like a bonsai tree in front of your very eyes. And the knob gags are just a bonus.
*In fact, the development of expertise can be seen as the conversion of rules into patterns.
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