Last night saw me in the Royal Opera House for Humperdinck’s märchenspiel Hansel and Gretel. I almost didn’t book to see it as it is very much a children’s opera but I hadn’t seen it for years, the production team looked interesting and of course, one of the main influences on Humperdinck was Wagner, much of […]
The importance of narrative in understanding human systems has been a large part of my work for over twenty-five years. In the Twelvetide series of 2020, I looked at the history of our use of narrative and some of the current applications. You can find the first of those posts here. I don’t plan to repeat […]
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 […]
I was trying to remember when COVID started to impact me personally and touch wood despite lots of social contacts I either haven’t had it or didn’t notice if I did). Yes, I was aware of it, and that awareness crept up slowly and remorselessly. When it started it felt a little like SARS, not […]
Bristol, UK and New York, NY, March 11th, 2022 – The Cynefin Co. and LEON announce their partnership today, coinciding with Women’s Month. Between The Cynefin Co.’s story-driven approach to data and LEON’s data-driven analysis and solutions platform for managers, the partnership is a very complementary and exciting one. Both companies are passionate about liberating human potential and […]
In yesterday’s post, I was concerned about both the abuse of power, and the effectiveness of confessional use of language. The desire to compel people to put into words (generally the words of power in the facilitator’s culture and/or ideology) learning is problematic to say the least. And the excuse of no one is compelled to […]
Writing the first part of this a couple of days ago was very therapeutic, I got a lot of anger out of the system and slept well in consequence. And in response to those who have asked, no I won’t name names or give any more clues. The post certainly attracted attention in social media […]
This is the second post in my three-part series on creating aporia and I will admit I was worried yesterday that I would struggle to get to three approaches in the aesthetics category. But when I thought about I realised there was a lot more and I ended up with a round dozen in three […]
A lot of the early work on narrative, which I summarised yesterday was largely based on instinct and common sense. There was background theory – I focused on aesthetics and ethics when I studied Philosophy and I was formally trained in rhetoric at school and carried that forward into competitive debating at University and beyond. […]
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