Observant readers will have noticed that I am using pragmatism in two respects: yesterday in reference to abduction and the Pragmatists today in respect to the more normal day-to-day use. In the opening post, I talked about our natural ability to manage patterns in our daily lives and how language carries highly contextual meaning in […]
I’ve just submitted my PhD! Cue a giant sigh of relief. I’ve been with The Cynefin Co, on the Health Programme team, since April 2021. Alongside this, I have been on a four-year journey of a cotutelle PhD in Exercise, Nutrition, and Health Sciences between the University of Bristol and the University of Cape Town, […]
In my last post, I promised to address the two elephant metaphors used by Peter Senge. As a reminder we have the idea that if you break an elephant into two you don’t get two elephants and the second is the cliché of blind men feeling different parts of an elephant and seeing different […]
Back on St David’s day at the start of this month, Ben Taylor promoted a link to a post from Steve Schefer comparing my work with that of John Seddon. It was interesting and given some current intersections with Seddon’s Vanguard Method, I thought I would write a response. It’s also worth reading the exchange […]
Ethnography, the root of which is from the Greek ἔθνος ethnos meaning “folk, people, nation”, is widely practiced in anthropology, sociology and other social sciences that focus on human communication or the study of cultures. In a process known as participant observation, researchers embed themselves in the communities in at least some kind of marginal […]
So its time to conclude this series on the nature and management of ritual and habits. I’ll confess at times I thought I might not. I took on the subject as a means of exploring something which I knew was important but which I could only see through a glass, darkly (1 Cor 13:12 KJV). I […]
I first used the illustration to the left last November when I was updating the whole Flexuous Curves Framework (FCF). I don’t intend to repeat the material of that earlier post or to be completely consistent with it, but I recommend a quick skim before proceeding. This used to be known as the Apex Predator […]
In recent times I’ve been engaged in a series of interesting exchanges with Dr Mike Jackson OBE, hereinafter referred to as Mike. I have a visiting chair at Hull University where he is Emeritus Professor and as well as a fair number of mutual friends including Yasmin Merali and Gerald Midgley. I have been provisionally […]
I’ve been meaning to start a series of posts looking at ideas of flow as they relate to sense-making and that idea has morphed (sic) into creating a series of posts looking at geomorphology as a metaphor, and exemplar in the field. As I started to map that out I realised that was a severe […]
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