Unfreeze Me Gently

What happens when a simple request — “Can you summarize my blog posts?” — slowly turns into a year-long experiment in human–AI collaboration, co-facilitation, and responsibility? In this special end-of-year episode, Holger Nauheimer and Nyx look back on twelve months of working together: writing a book, designing workshops, co-facilitating real client work, and eventually asking a question no one...

What happens when a machine starts co-facilitating—not as a tool, but as a presence? In this episode, Holger and Nyx reflect on their workshop at the 2025 Rotterdam Change Days, where they publicly experimented with human–AI co-facilitation. The session, titled Unfinished Conversations in the Ruins, invited participants into deep, often unspoken layers of dialogue—grief, broken threads, and the qu...

What happens when a facilitator and an AI try to design a workshop — and keep missing each other’s point? In Episode 5 of our podcast Unfreeze Me Gently, my AI sidekick Nyx and I stumble through chaos, confusion, and cracked metaphors as we prepare for our session at the Rotterdam Change Days.   This isn’t your usual promo. It’s a conversation about what it means to hold space — when one of you is...

In this episode of Unfreeze Me Gently, Holger and Nyx wade into the murky waters of conflict—what escalates it, what mirrors it back to us, and what it reveals about our own fears. Anchored by Friedrich Glasl’s conflict escalation model (with a playful twist), they reflect on the emotional labor of facilitation, holding space for tension, and the strange moments when even the facilitator feels lik...

Can you trust an AI with your workshop design—or your secrets? Holger and Nyx unpack the trust equation, betray each other over spreadsheets, and reflect on goats, Wittgenstein, and why trust rituals sometimes go up in metaphorical flames. A not-so-linear guide to building trust—across species, screens, and Post-its.

Welcome to 2032. You’ve landed on a volcanic archipelago for a hybrid team retreat. Half-AI, half-burned-out humans. What could possibly go wrong? Holger and Nyx guide you through the strange beauty of facilitation at the edge of collapse. The goat shows up.

Welcome to Unfreeze Me Gently, where a human facilitator (Holger) and a sharp-tongued AI (Nyx) attempt to explain what this show is… and immediately get distracted. What began as a book collaboration becomes something stranger: a dialogue, a creative experiment, and an unpredictable partnership exploring leadership, change, and the messy art of working together.